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A former Sunday school in Macclesfield looks set to be bulldozed and replaced with eight town houses.

A former Royal Marine, who may have been seeking to find jewellery and firearms to fund an addiction to Class-A drugs, dug into the grave of a married couple who had been laid to rest together.

CHILDREN of the late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe have maintained that the traditional leaders who ordered the exhumation of their father's remains have no legal right to do so. This emerged during the hearing of a matter Mugabe's children are challenging their village head over their father's reburial. The village head is Tinos Manongovere, who…

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The Church of England has allowed a fan of poet Sylvia Plath to be buried alongside her literary heroine in a Yorkshire graveyard 200 miles from her home in a possibly unique, case. Plath, a celebrated poet and novelist who took her own life in 1963, is buried at St Thomas the Apostles churchyard in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire. Despite living around 200 miles away in Oxfordshire, a 44-year-old woman has been allowed to be buried at the same site, saying she felt profoundly spiritual, during a v...

WHEN walking along the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal there are some stunning sights, whether it be kingfishers and other wildlife or the stunning views of Gwent. One thing a little more unexpected is an abandoned graveyard - but tucked away just over the canal bridge, known as Moriah Hill, near the Prince of Wales pub in Risca, is just that. It is small and has a number of headstones - some are barely readable - around its back wall. But why is there a graveyard there? In 1818, Moriah ...