FLY-tippers have sunk to a new low.

They are dumping rubbish in the countryside, residential streets, outside the cemetery, and now inside the cemetery.

One regular visitor to the burial ground was shocked this week to find somebody had taken the trouble to carry this junk through the gates and leave it by a tree close to graves.

‘It is absolutely appalling they could despoil a cemetery in this way – they are cretins who have no respect to the many local people buried there, or their relatives,’ they said.

‘I just do not understand it. There is an excellent tip and recycling centre only a few minutes away in Newton Abbot. I just hope they can be identified.’

Certain parts of the old cemetery are also looking unkempt and overgrown, making it difficult for specific graves to be located.

The headstone on this war grave has snapped, and is lying on the ground.

It is the final resting place of Royal Navy stoker Frank Churchill, 40, who died of pneumonia at his Willow Street home while on leave. He left a widow and nine children, seven under 14.