WALKING through St Andrew's Graveyard, Stratton, with all the signs of spring surrounding the stones, was only a foretaste of the experience offered at this year's flower festival inside the church itself.

'God's Acre' was the Saxon name for the churchyard which inspired the theme of this year's St Andrew's Flower Festival.

The recent dedicated work of transcribing the wording on the memorials, undertaken by a small group of church members, provided the background detail of the displays which celebrated with such care and thought Strattonian lives from over the centuries and right up to the present day.

For the full report, and a round up of the area news and sport, see this week's edition of the 'Post'.