IT would seem that having fires on church burials is quite commonplace, (“Crediton Courier”, September 5).

This week I took photographs of a bonfire in the burial ground behind the old Congregational Church in Sandford.

It's not a fire in a cleared burial ground or on the edge of a burial ground or between burials but right on top of a burial, one that has an obvious headstone where the neighbouring grave has a stone kerb.

As an active burial ground and one where burials can still take place if they have been prepaid, it seems very odd behaviour.

It would seem that respect has gone out of the window.

David Cann

Crediton