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Families' fury as council bosses rip down 'dangerous' 18-inch headstones in health and safety purge

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 10, 2022
The plots had been vandalized by yobs, according to mourners tending the final resting places of relatives at first. However, tiny stickers attached to the headstones (pictured right) told the bemused families that their memorials had been uprooted and laid on the ground by council servicemen. Dawn Jordan, 52, from Scarborough, only learned the headstone honoring her mother, Bridie Jordan, 61, who died in 2000, and another loved one buried in the same plot, was uprooted after she discovered the rows of flattened headstones on Facebook. She said: 'I was gutted'