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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

UK government apologises for past burials of stillborn babies in mass graves

Flowers and a grave marker with the words 'special little boy'.
A plot at Landican cemetery in the Wirral. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The health secretary, Yvette Cooper, has issued a “profound apology” for the “unthinkable pain” caused to parents whose stillborn babies were buried in mass graves.

Parents spent decades not knowing where their babies were buried, owing to a practice in which stillborn babies were taken from mothers at hospital and buried in communal graves.

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