![Gravedigger Loses Job After Saluting In Burial Plot](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/44/8f/00018f44_medium.jpeg)
A gravedigger has lost his job of 40 years after a photograph of him standing half-naked in a burial plot was deemed offensive and provoked outcry among local newspaper readers.
![Gravedigger Loses Job After Saluting In Burial Plot](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/45/8f/00018f45_medium.jpeg)
Ray Loxton, 59, was pictured in his local newspaper smiling, while standing topless inside a grave on a hot summers day.
![Gravedigger Loses Job After Saluting In Burial Plot](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/43/8f/00018f43_medium.jpeg)
He was also shielding his eyes from the sun with his hand - which some readers of the Shepton Mallet Journal, which covers his hometown in Somerset, mistook to be a cheery salute.
28 Aug 2014 11:55:00,
post received
0 comments