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Beeston Cemetery is one of five council-owned cemeteries in Broxtowe borough

Broxtowe’s council leader says he is “optimistic” changes to the borough’s cemetery rules will be finalised by the end of September after bereaved families said they didn’t know where they stood. In July 2024, it was decided that some items left in tribute to loved ones on graves in the borough would be removed due to maintenance difficulties and for health and safety reasons.

Rules allowing the items to be removed have been in place since 2009, but the bereavement service only updated its ‘Notice of Internment’ forms in 2023, prohibiting items such as fencing, bedding plants, vases, windmills, glass and alcohol.

In October 2024, bereaved families started a petition in response. That same month the counci

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