Whoops! That's a Grave Mistake!

Trainee gravediggers have horrified conservationists by digging a practice grave in parkland after mistaking it for a cemetery.

Three trainee contractors were asked to dig a mock grave in a cemetery as part of their training.

But instead of choosing a spot in Easthill Cemetery, they used their mechanical digger to excavate a huge pit in an adjacent field of ‘irreplaceable ecological value’.

Campaigners who are fighting to protect the field from a large housing development were ‘intensely upset’ by the mix-up.

Mark Player, of the Friends of Easthill Field, confronted the group, and was told they were following orders as part of their ‘grave-digging education’.

Mendip District Council said the trainees were sent to Easthill to avoid disrupting burials at their usual training sites across the district.

A spokesman said the contractor was instructed to conduct the training session on land within the boundaries of the cemetery. But the message was ‘misunderstood’.

The spokesman added: ‘I am satisfied this was simply a communication error.’

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