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'Maximising income out of people's grief'
Local ministers were shocked this week to discover that the Highland Council plans to increase burial charges by 50 per cent from next month.Caithness Presbytery of the Church of Scotland hit out at the move at its meeting in Thurso West Church on Tuesday night and agreed to write to the area corporate manager Ian Hargrave and all 10 local councillors in a bid to get the decision reconsidered. The rise was described as "unfair, excessive and obnoxious".
The Rev Ronnie Johnstone, the convener of the church and society committee, accused the council of trying to "maximise income from others' grief". While he acknowledged that there are pressures on local authority finance he felt the increase in burial charges was "swingeing".
Full story at the John O'Groat Journal.
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