A DISTRAUGHT husband is calling for action after thieves struck twice in a fortnight at his wife's grave in Kirk Balk cemetery.
John Shaw's wife Wendy died in October last year from cancer aged 55 and he and his family placed stone angels and ceramic ornaments on her grave.
But last Wednesday and again on Tuesday thieves took one of the angels and pot clowns.
Now Mr Shaw, 56, of Greenfield Road, Hoyland, is asking for patrols and tighter security. He says security is much better at other cemeteries like Wombwell.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle dated June 5. **
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