Protesters say the council is 'taxing the grieving' as they hand in a petition against the toppling of headstones.
Friends of Hawkhead Cemetery launched a petition back in May to urge the council to seek out alternative methods to laying headstones flat on the ground.
She said:"When I go up to put flowers on my dad's grave the first thing I see when I go in is all these toppled graves. There's a lot of our family in that cemetery. It's disrespectful." "There's no way there are 1,200 stones in that one cemetery that were that bad they needed to be toppled. It’s just so disrespectful the way that they have done it.
She said:"My mum and dad's graves are not being maintained. There’s lots of flooding and it's very distressing when we go to the grave. It's ridiculous. "It happened to me twice, a few years ago I walked in, and my grandad's stone was flat down with no warning at all.Desmond added:"The headstones are lying there and you can't see them through the grass – they are a trip hazard. That is wrong. They should be at least visible. You can't see half of them.
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