A Suffolk scout troop based in cemetery grounds may need to find a new home in the coming years as more burial plots are taken up.

The 7th Felixstowe Scout Group, based at the town's Langley Avenue cemetery, has started fundraising for a new HQ because the cemetery, owned by the town council, is expanding and at some point in the future, the troop will need to move.

However, John Meyrick, the group scout leader, said there was much uncertainty as to when that time would come and there was no target figure for the fundraising for a new home.

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He said: "We need to move because the cemetery's expanding. The council will want the ground I think, but then I have heard other things being talked about so it is all a quite fluid situation at the moment.

"If we get the Bubonic plague, it is months, if we carry on as we are, it is years. We are just trundling on gently as we are."

He added the troop had been in communication with the council, but the situation "had not moved any further on" other than knowing that the move will have to be done "at some stage".

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The building currently used by the troop, which has between 40 and 50 members, was first erected in 1952, but may need to make way for more burial plots.

Mr Meyrick said the council had "some patches of land" that could accommodate a new scout hut.

He added: "Once we start getting notice that the move is likely to happen in the next few years then we will have to start doing serious fundraising on it and getting grants, such as from the lottery."

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