Actress Charlotte Rampling has reacted with fury after learning that her grandfather's war memorial headstone was among roughly 800 gravestones crushed into gravel and used to fill a drainage ditch. She has described the act as "utterly shameful", condemning what she sees as a careless and disrespectful destruction of memorials to the war dead, including that of her own relative, who was honoured as a war hero.

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