Row over graveyard flowers goes to Parliament

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[The Church of England Newspaper] March 3, 2006--A row that has broken out over a ban on flowers in a church’s graveyard has reached the House of Commons. St Mary’s Church, in Humberstone, Leicester, has said that flowers and mementoes can no longer be left on ground where mourners’ loved ones are interred. The church’s parochial church council says that the ruling needs to be enforced to keep the site tidy. There is no general church law on such matters, but individual PCCs have the power to introduce such rules.