The daughter of an “adventurous” 93-year-old has fulfilled her mother’s wish to have her ashes scattered using a drone and said it was the most fitting way for her to “go out in style”.

Pauline Polhill, from Evercreech, Somerset, died on Christmas Eve 2022, after a previously undetected cancer spread to the outside of her lungs.

The adventure lover – who travelled to Florida to meet Mickey Mouse at 89 and swam with dolphins at 90 – wanted to have a memorable send-off, with news of a drone being used to scatter ashes sparking her interest in her final months.

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