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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News Now 20240604 12:48:00

ijust happened to come out of the church first, and as i looked to my right, i saw a commonwealth war grave completely grown over with weeds. and i thought, that s not right, it shouldn t be like that. so my wife and i came back the next day. we cleared all the weeds. six months later, i d done 144, all within a ten mile radius of where i lived. i find them, i renovate them, i seek permission, and then i revisit them every two or three years and re clean them. steve always takes before and after photos of the graves he restores. the transformations are quite something. i love doing the short videos of reels, which we speed up, and i put great music to them. look for the william tell one on tik tok. that s really funny. steve funds most of the work himself through a just giving page, the military grave restorer. he has two volunteer researchers

Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20240604 05:46:00

you re bringing back a story, a life of someone who has defended the country. you know, and i get a buzz out of that. yeah, i agree. i get more of a buzz out of it than anything. steve is a former soldier, served in northern ireland. he started restoring military graves by chance after a family christening. ijust happened to come out of the church first, and as i looked to my right, i saw a commonwealth war grave completely grown over with weeds. and i thought, that s not right, it shouldn t be like that. so my wife and i came back the next day. we cleared all the weeds. six months later, i d done 144, all within a ten mile radius of where i lived. ifind them, i renovate them, i seek permission, and then i revisit them every two or three years and re clean them. steve always takes before and after

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