SICKENED Angela Adams has accused the council of making a bungling mess of her husband's gravestone by leaving grass cuttings strewn over the cemetery.

The grieving grandmother was reduced to tears after seeing the dying brown cuttings left on her husband's headstone.

Mrs Adams visits her husband Sean's gravestone at the Hamilton Cemetery, on Hamilton Hill, High Wycombe, every day after he died from cancer two years ago at the age of 42.

But she said she was filled with fury when she found the grass had been cut but the cuttings had been left to rot.

The 49-year-old, of Spearing Road, Castlefield, High Wycombe, added: "I just feel like I want to strangle someone at the council because they don't seem to give two hoots.

"I just think it's disgraceful when people are visiting their relatives' graves there. I won't be treated like this. It's not right that they make a bungling mess of something put there in my husband's memory."

A district council spokesman said: "The maintenance and care of cemeteries is always an emotive issue. The council has agreed standards of maintenance for High Wycombe Cemetery and in particular grass cutting.

"At the time of year when the grass is growing at its fastest, long grass may result in cuttings lying on the ground. The issue of removing grass clippings has been previously considered but due to the cost of removal this has not been approved."