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Experts say there will be no graves left to bury dead within 30 years

Posted on: May 15, 2014 12:59 PM
St Mary's Harmondsworth
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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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