WHAT a helpful and friendly bunch are the Friends of Darwen Cemetery and the local gravediggers.

We spent a couple of hours recently searching the old cemetery in vain for a family grave when one of the FoDC members, who was passing, took us in hand.

He arranged for one of the gravediggers to ‘flag’ the grave so we could find it on our next visit and then he and a couple of other members of the group spent some time clearing grass and tidying it up before we came over again.

I hoped the local council appreciates the work and the helpfulness of the cemetery friends.

We certainly do and we have made a donation to their funds. Incidentally, we weren’t very impressed with the long grass and the weeds and all the flattened headstones.

Michael Threlfall, Morecambe