Work under way over new cemetery

Work has started on a new cemetery in Staffordshire which has been designed to serve a borough for 100 years.

The site, off the A525 in Keele, should be completely finished by Christmas to serve Newcastle-under-Lyme, but would be available for burials before then.

The A525 is being widened and an entrance created as part of the work.

The borough council said it worked out a number of plots per acre and a site of about 40 acres would serve the area for 100 years.