Shoppers can take advantage of the ‘sale of the cemetery’ at a charity shop.

Among the second-hand furniture and trinkets on sale at Spiral Cabin in Bedford Place, Brighton, customers have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy a full-size coffin.

Customers won’t have to dig too deep into their pockets for it either – it is available for a grave price of just £155.

The coffin went up in the charity shop’s window this week and has been causing a stir – mourning, noon and night.

Novelty item Chris Page, from the charity shop, said he had helped to deliver the coffin to the nearby New Venture Theatre Company for its latest production.

When the run came to an end, the undertakers who lent the company the coffin did not want it back, saying they couldn’t sell it now it had been used.

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Mr Page decided he would try and sell the coffin to raise money for the charity which funds holidays for adults with learning difficulties.

He said: “I think it would be great for Halloween.

“We have already had a couple of inquiries and people are queueing up outside the shop to get a look at it.

“People wanted to buy it to use it for a coffee table or they could take the lining out and use it as a bookshelf.

“Somebody came in and said they wish they had seen this last week because it would have saved them £600.”

Mr Page said the charity, which also has its own community radio station called Spiral Wave Radio, has had a shop in Bedford Place for the last seven years and the coffin was not the first macabre item it had tried to sell.

He said: “Last year, we had a full medical skeleton which some medical students bought.

“I wish we had the skeleton now, as it would go really well with our coffin.”