SIR – Further to the regular correspondence regarding ‘dog poo’, may I make a plea to the dog owners who frequent Thornton Cemetery. On several occasions I have had to remove ‘dog mess’ from my husband’s grave – have some respect for the people buried there.

There are some thoughtful owners who clean up after their pets, and some responsible owners who keep their pets on a lead, but I have never seen horses or cattle exercised there in what is after all a cemetery and not a park or field.

Mrs Elizabeth M Buffham, King Edward Road, Thornton