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LONDON London's most famous cemetery, the final resting place of revolutionary socialist Karl Marx, is searching for a new lease of life by reclaiming long-abandoned graves so they can be sold again for fresh burials. The Victorian-era Highgate Cemetery, crammed with a jumble of ivy-covered graves and ornate stone memorials, stretches across 37 acres (15 hectares) of north London.
The north London graveyard, a popular tourist spot for fans of the communist, will erect new graves after securing £100,000 of National Lottery funding.