Mourners have been instructed they might face reburying family members in a unique cemetery – in the event that they don’t need them to return to waterlogged Ayr.
Shocked kin say they've been supplied up choices as far afield as Tarbolton or Annbank as an alternative choice to putting our bodies again into underground concrete tombs, which have change into flooded.
A gaggle of livid households instructed Ayrshire Reside how they've been knowledgeable that they might not be capable to select an earth burial in soil at Ayr Cemetery as there are solely 60 areas left.
In one other twist to this ever-growing disaster, council bosses have met with households and supplied up burial websites as much as 9 miles away.
Chatting with Ayrshire Reside at Ayr Cemetery, Debbie Kennedy – whose brother Jamie Kennedy, 46, has been buried since 2020 – mentioned: “They've requested in the event that they wish to transfer my brother to a different graveyard.
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“They prompt can we wish to transfer them to Tarbolton or some place else? No, that doesn’t work – we paid for plots right here.
“My mum needs us all to be collectively.”
Jennifer Craig, whose sister Joan Craig, 55, is buried on the cemetery mentioned: “That is what you're getting whenever you meet with them on individual or over the telephone.
“They're displaying no compassion.”
Council chiefs remained tight-lipped when requested about different cemeteries.
A spokesperson for South Ayrshire Council mentioned: “Choices are being mentioned with households and the place attainable we are going to accommodate their requests.”
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