Yes – You! On Saturday 29 July I visited my Mum and Dad’s grave as I do regularly and also a dear friend of mine’s late husband’s adjacent grave. Decent folk (not you th ieves) may imagine my distress when I immediately clocked 4 gaps on my friend’s grave and 1 gap on my Mum and Dad’s. 4 pots of herbs and 1 heavy metal jug – go ne. Why? These are not worth anything at all, except to us. My Dad used this jug in his Honey Parlour so it has great emotional attachment fo r me as I can visualise him using it and it was a great connection from him to me. My Mum loved flowers so when I filled it there was a huge connection to both of them. My dear friend filled 4 pots (given by her husband’s children) with herbs from the garden she and he lovingly shared and placed them on his grave – a huge emotio nal connection too. So – Thieves – you are obviously devoid of any human decency and feeling for anybody but yourselves. But what pleasure can you possibly get from either a coup le of quid if you’ve sold these items, or if you’ve kept them? Do you look at th em and think how lovely they look – Oh, I’ll just pick some herbs for my pizza tonight – yum my. They were on som eo ne’s grave? – tough. Oh, these flowers look nice in this jug – pity they are grave goods. Stealing from graves is the lowest form of theft by the l owest of the low. PUT THEM BACK NOW!! To everyone who has loved ones in Cradley Churc hyard -- please be alert both for your own and others’ graves. I am. But it shouldn’t be like this, especially in Cradley – how very sad that it should come to this. Name supplied & verified

GRAVE THIEVES!!