COUNCILS are being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars protecting historic cemeteries from vandals.

Wollongong City Council is the latest, investing $300,000 on a fence and tree removal.

Vandals target crucifixes and statues, which they smash, and trees and flowers, which they set on fire, according to the Daily Telegraph. Sixty three graves were knocked down at one cemetery alone, in the state’s mid-north.

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