I CANNOT believe that NCC has shut the office at St Woolos Cemetery and it is now staffed from the civic centre.

They state its because of break-ins to the office and the safety of staff.

So, why not make the office more secure? Put shutters up, put padlocks in place, but please do not let these villains win, or we won’t have anything left in Newport, no businesses, no amenities, no services - nothing and the villains have won.

You cant just roll over and let such a valuable service disappear.

The idea is not to give into these scum so that honest citizens suffer. This was a place that the bereaved visit, for sympathy, understanding, directions and advice.

We don’t want a telephone number, we want a person that we can relate to.

It doesn’t help to say that the office is closed on the weekends anyway, and that funerals are conducted Monday to Friday.

If NCC cant understand the need for this office to stay open at any cost, then it will never understand anything.

Rosemarie Price
Windsor Road
Newport