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Disgraceful, disrespectful and dangerous.

That's how the state of a cemetery in Leicester is being described after weeks of the grass not being mowed.
Belgrave Cemetery is home to more than four-thousand burial plots- including those for soldiers killed in both world wars. But for weeks volunteers who help to maintain the site have noticed that large clumps of grass haven't been cut by the City Council, leaving many of the gravestones being buried beneath weeds, grass and mud! The Council says part of its Biodiversity Action Plan, which involved consultation with the Friends of Belgrave Cemetery.

Dorothy Marshall, her husband Brian and committee member Jan Tebatt have been showing our reporter Manish Verma around.