Bereaved gran distressed as plans for grave refused

Glenis Miller and family at Andrew Miller's grave

A grandmother, left struggling to adjust after her husband's death, has said she feels '˜victimised' by the council's decision to refuse permission for a kerb on his grave at Mill Lane cemetery.

Glenis Miller, of the Driveway, said it was her family’s ‘heart’s desire’ to put up a headstone and kerb set in Section B of the cemetery for her husband Andrew Miller.

Having been ‘perfectly well and healthy’, he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2015 and died four months later, aged 69.

Mrs Miller said: “When I went to inspect the area, I saw there were kerb sets there. So I naturally assumed I would be able to do the same.

“I don’t like the thought of people being able to walk over my husband’s grave, or a lawn mower going over it.”

However, after placing an order with the stone mason last summer, she was told that kerb sets were not allowed by the council because the area was a lawn site.

But, referring to the kerbs already there, she said “it obviously isn’t”.