Anger as vandals smash war graves

Anger as vandals smash war graves - BBC News Concrete slabs are thought to have been used to smash gravestones

Vandals have smashed war graves at a Tyneside cemetery as veterans mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

About 12 military headstones at Church Bank cemetery in Wallsend were targeted in what has been described as a "disgusting attack."

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