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as mindless thugs MRDIACKsur-


, veys the damage, left (A080708/6n)


'and below, some of the smashed - gravestones


- (A080708/61) V by Faiza Afzaal


MINDLESS,vandals have destroyed gravestones and.two Chapels of .Rest after rampaging through a peaceful military cemetery.


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The hooligans left a trail of destruction ^ ^ t e r going on a wrecking spree a t Ribble


: Valley Remembrance Park (formerly' I Calderstohffi .Cemetery)j in Mitton Road, .i.Whalley.(,V


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- . The privately-owned cemetery, which.. incorporates two chapels of rest and the


. 'Whalley Military Cemetery, has been left . in a state of dey^tation.


' Although the graves of war heroes were


, not'directly targeted, headstones and graves'of someof the 1,000 former Calder-


• stones patients had been oyertiirned’and - , smashed into pieces and strevim across the three-acre site.


. ■ Debris had then been thrown into the


fenced-off area where those who gave their lives for their country are buried. Thousands of pounds of damage was inflicted on the chapels. The vandals


• broke into the historic buildings by smash­ ing down the door. I t is believed they used bricks and lumps of wood, which were later found nearby, to smash every single pane of glass.


ble 'Valley youth worker and “Whalley resi­ dent, Mr Mel Diack (55). He said he felt


. “sick” when he first saw the extent of the damage caused and has described it as ' “the final insult”.


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“I t ’s ju s t mindless vandalism and , absolute sacrilege,”; said Mr Diack.' “They


,:,do not realise what they have done. 'We ■have the graves of war heroes'who sacri­ ficed their lives for this country. Is this the way they are repaid?


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