1.  Parish Council chairman Peter Foster yesterday said so many people were booking their plots the village was running out of burial space.

2.  Burial space is limited to certain veterans who are highly decorated or life-long service members, and to particular members of their family.

3.  But the competition for burial space has become so intense that even the church has granted believers grudging permission for cremation if no alternative is available.

4.  Floridis contends the shortage of burial space leaves no options.

5.  Officials turned them down, saying Kremlin churches lack burial space and the huge cathedral never held remains of the Russian imperial family in its original form.

6.  The proximity of Johore has made the state attractive to people from Singapore, where limited land has caused shortage of burial space.

7.  Council parks and recreation director Gary Simpson said new charges were proposed because of the increase in large coffins which needed more burial space.