Trust to run graveyards amid concerns for future

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Via The Scotsman

Greyfriars is one of five city graveyards said to be of cultural significance. Picture: Katarzyna Krzywania

FIVE historic Edinburgh graveyards on an “at risk” list are to be run by a new trust.

Friends groups are to be set up for Canongate, Greyfriars and St Cuthbert’s Kirkyards, and the New & Old Calton Burial Grounds as part of a pilot scheme