A grave problem.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  July 6, 2008 ;     534 words ...BYLINE: AGIZA HLONGWANE THE grave of Nandi, mother of king Shaka, the legendary...Sahra took a decision to fence off the grave near Eshowe last month. A commemorative...erected and a palisade installed around the grave to fence it off. Amafa spokesman Barry...

grave

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      288 words ...grave 1 / grāv / • n. a place of burial for a dead...ground and marked by a stone or mound. ∎  ( the grave ) used as an allusive term for death. ∎  a place...machinery or other discarded object lies. PHRASES: dig one's own grave do something foolish that causes one to ...

Why would someone attack nana's grave?(News Local)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  September 23, 2006 ;     303 words ......Michelle Ruane Vandals targeted a gran's grave wrecking floral displays to mark the first...13 last year. She was buried in the same grave as her husband Edward, who was laid to...of South Bank, visits her grandmother's grave every day. She discovered the first vandal...

ABUSED IN LIFE ..AND IN DEATH; Billie-Jo grave a vandal target.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  July 7, 1998 ;   Carey, Tanith William, Alex;   427 words ...VANDALS have wrecked the grave of murdered schoolgirl Billie-Jo Jenkins...the damage on her first visit to the grave in East London since he was given a life...down in the early morning to tend the grave, pull up the weeds and keep it tidy for...

Our baby's grave was left ruined.(News)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  June 20, 2005 ;     363 words ......baby who died soon after birth visited his grave to find a six-foot mound of soil on it...not even move cuddly toys she left on the grave before they dumped the soil on it. Workers...soil in wooden boards on to baby Alfie's grave as they dug the plot next to it. Today...

Lantern stolen from baby's grave by 'scum' DISTRAUGHT PARENTS CONDEMN...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  October 10, 2002 ;     398 words ......they had placed on their baby daughter's grave. Alan and Kirsty Green couldn't believe...had gone missing from daughter Ellie's grave, less than three hours after they put it...hours after her birth. They left it on her grave, at Walsgrave Cemetery in Woodway Lane...

WALES: How could they do a thing like this to my mother's grave? Family...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  June 8, 2007 ;     383 words ......POWELL A NORTH Wales family who went to visit their mum's grave was horrified to find it covered by a mound of soil. Grave diggers had thrown a scruffy tarpaulin over Miriam Dingley's grave in Beaumaris and heaped earth and stones on top as they...

Grieving mother devastated as diggers ruin son's grave

Evening News - Scotland;  September 19, 2005 ;   JOANNA VALLELY;   400 words ......devastated when she discovered gravediggers had destroyed her baby's grave. Workmen at Newbattle cemetery in Dalkeith were digging a new grave when it collapsed into the grave alongside. Soil was strewn everywhere, flowers and plants were uprooted...

TOT'S GIFTS STOLEN AT HIS GRAVE; Thieves take tragic Cian's toys.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  September 25, 2000 ;   O'Donovan, Deirdre;   413 words ......thieves have stolen gifts from their baby's grave. Devastated Paul and Patricia Leigh lost...noticed that toys and flowers left on the grave in St Mary's Cemetery in Carlow had been...teddy bears and other gifts for him on the grave. But from the very first week after his...

Lewis' grave becomes pilgrimage site

The Boston Globe;  September 20, 1993 ;   Tom Coakley, Globe Staff;   787 words ......jacket, the lanky Johnson crouched by the grave of the Celtics star at Forest Hills Cemetery...Johnson continue to make pilgrimages to the grave in Section 43 of the Garden of Tranquilty...people a day ask for directions to the grave, which lacks a headstone and is now covered...

Family fury at council grave ruling A Man has told of his anguish after he...

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph;  August 13, 2007 ;     483 words ......number of sentimental items from his wife's grave. Kenneth Ryder (75) was sent a letter from...he must remove all of the items from the grave, at Woodlands Cemetery, otherwise they...his wife May in January 2006. Since the grave was erected the family have placed various...

'She's not safe even in death' Grief over girl's grave.(News)

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  April 19, 2002 ;     255 words ...Byline: EMMA GUNBY THE grave of a five-year-old girl has been hit by...pellets and stole fairy lights from her grave. Her mother, Nathalie Loates, says she...We have made such an effort to keep the grave nice, this is the last thing we can do...

Family's agony as sickening note left on grave.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 30, 2000 ;     344 words ...A chilling message has been left on the grave of a young Birmingham woman which has been...relatives of Mrs Soroya Contoyannis on her grave in Brandwood Cemetery, Kings Heath. The...ornamental cherub has twice been ripped from the grave, which is in a Muslim section of the cemetery...

Mother who grieved at the wrong grave for twenty years; Error only came to...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 11, 2005 ;     461 words ......years, Jane Shepley lovingly tended the grave where she thought her baby daughter was...mother found she had been visiting the wrong grave. After asking for her son Adam to be buried...the family had been visiting the wrong grave for two decades. The plot where Miss Shepley...

Grave way to treat a Scottish legend

Evening News - Scotland;  March 7, 2003 ;   FIONA MacGREGOR;   616 words ......CAMPAIGN has been launched to restore the grave of one of Scotland's greatest thinkers...of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith's grave lies virtually forgotten, a tree growing...Those promoting the restoration say the grave could prove as popular with visitors as...