The war graves in Tenby's old cemetery are to get even more TLC after an investigation into their upkeep by Simon Hart MP.

Mr. Hart was contacted by a constituent concerned that the 34 graves that are dotted about the five-acre graveyard were becoming overgrown.

However, a site meeting with Tenby Town Council and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (GWGC) showed that the graves were well-kept and easy to access.

And now the GWGC has agreed to double the maintenance grant it pays to Tenby Town Council to oversee their upkeep and has also said it will be refurbishing some of the most weathered headstones.

"The War Graves Commission pays the town council £3.70 per grave per year for upkeep which the town council passes on to the Sea Cadets who are doing a wonderful job in maintaining access to the graves," explained Mr. Hart.

"Richard Brown from the Commission, who met us at the cemetery, was happy to double this amount immediately, which is wonderful news."

The town council entered into a maintenance agreement in 1983 with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to tend the 15 CWGC graves sited in the extensive burial grounds. The remaining 19 graves were listed by the Commission as privately maintained by relatives. However, the Sea Cadets have now undertaken extensive work to identify these non-CWGC graves and also look after them.

Richard Brown from the CWGC said: "I am quite happy with the state of the graveyard; we require access to the headstones and all of them have paths cut up to them.

"A few of the headstones do need replacing and we'll be doing that."

The CWGC looks after 1,200 sites in Wales and the West containing 12,000 graves and is now in discussion with the town council about the possibility of installing information panels in Tenby old cemetery about the war graves.