Memorial safety inspections are currently being carried out in Heaton Cemetery by Newcastle City Council ... I then went to put a wreath on my uncle's plot, and the headstone was on the ground.

More than 1,300 headstones in Heaton Cemetery have been laid down so far. Credit: NCJ Media More than 1,800 memorials in Newcastle cemeteries have been deemed safety hazards – less than halfway ...

Newcastle City Council was subject to heavy criticism before Christmas from bereaved families who had found their loved ones’ headstones lying on the ground at Heaton Cemetery. Civic centre ...

More than 1,300 memorials at Heaton Cemetery in Newcastle were laid flat after being deemed at risk of falling, leaving bereaved families "devastated". Newcastle City Council leader Nick Kemp said ...

The Sound of the Underground hitmaker, 40, was close to her grandmother Margaret, who died in 2001 at the age of 60. She never knew her grandfather Brian, however, who died of a heart attack aged ...

HEATON graveyard volunteers have been left heartbroken by the wanton destruction of gravestones at the historic cemetery. At least 26 graves were desecrated on Sunday night leaving a trail of ...