A report by the Law Commission has suggested re-using graves that are more than 75 years old to help cope with overcrowding in cemeteries and churchyards. 

Would you share your grave with a stranger? 

Urban areas across England and Wales are fast running out of burial space, the Law Commission has warned.

Old graves could be reused to manage shortage of burial space

Steve Davies served in the British Army and has helped restore hundreds of military graves, but he is leaving Jersey after concerns over how he cleans them.

War veteran to stop cleaning military graves after government dispute

Old tombstones and human remains which collapsed into a quarry due to landslide in the 1960s have been re-discovered.

Human remains and gravestones exposed by reservoir water level

The gate to St Andrews Cemetery is now locked between 9am and 2pm on weekdays.

Guernsey cemetery gates locked due to safety concerns

You would not know it but more than 3,000 people who died in poverty in the 1800s are buried in this field in Odd Down in Bath. 

Memorial to be built to thousands in unmarked graves

Planters were smashed, memorial plaques cracked and a wall toppled over in the attack on St Andrews Church on Saturday. 


Gravestones broken and planters smashed in vandalism on Hove church

The council says it's working to improve drainage at Kidlington Cemetery. 

Families left traumatised after heavy rain floods graveyard

An investigation by ITV Cymru Wales has found some areas in Wales could run out of space to bury the dead within 20 years.

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