A GRIEVING mother told by a parish council that decorations on her daughter's grave would be removed said she was now waiting in limbo.

Jade Beadle received a letter from Kidlington Parish Council saying if she did not remove decorations by the end of January, they would be removed for her.

But last night the council said it had made no decision on what to do, and Miss Beadle, 24, is now checking on the grave regularly.

The Tesco worker said: "I'm just on edge, waiting until I know.

"I wish they would tell me what's happening. I just want her garden left alone so I can get back to some sort of normality."

Miss Beadle and her partner Sandeep Bidla, 29, lost their daughter Tanya at 39 weeks in August.

They buried her at Kidlington Cemetery in Bicester Road and to make her plot special, they put a small fence around it, added pink gravel and a few decorations.

But the council has a blanket rule against decorations and asked her to remove them.

Since the Oxford Mail revealed the council's order, more than 5,500 people have signed a petition at change.org calling on the council to change the rules.

But the parish council clerk Patricia Redpath said: "The officer won't go and do it, we don't work like that.

"It is such a raw subject councillors will probably want to think hard about it, rather than just reacting."

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