WREXHAM’S new cemetery will officially open next month.

It will officially open at 11am on Monday May 11 at Plas Acton Lane, Pandy.

The new cemetery will take over from the historic Ruabon Road cemetery which opened in 1876 and has buried more than 37,000 people.

It served Wrexham for 130 years, but there are only a few plots left there.

Wrexham council chiefs were keen to get the new cemetery open by spring/summer.