Undertakers barred from hospital for fighting over customers

Sales reps from four undertakers have set up banners outside a Madrid-area hospital to protest being ejected because of loud arguments while competing for customers.

Last week the protesters set up bouquets of flowers beside the banners to publicise their case, but the director of Principe de Asturias Hospital in the town of Alcala de Henares ordered them withdrawn, the newspaper El Pais said yesterday.