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The dead will have to be dug up and reburied in deeper graves because Britain's cemeteries are almost full, MPs have claimed.
A shortage of grave space has become 'critical' in many towns - with councils having nowhere left to bury the dead.
Tory MP Sarah Wollaston urged ministers to let churches and council cemeteries re-use older graves to ease the crisis.
Such a move would involve lifting out remains from graves that are more than 75-years-old, burying them deeper in the same grave and then re-using the space on top.
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