A COUPLE of months ago my wife and I purchased two spiked vases to take to Overdale crematorium.

These were placed at the sites where her parents' ashes are scattered so my wife has somewhere to visit and leave flowers. On Monday, December 8, we visited both sites to leave flowers and her mother's vase has gone. What sort of lowlife scum steals such things? It's appalling.

K Blakeledge

Coverdale Road,

Westhoughton