A church is using Sheep to graze in its GRAVEYARD as a cheap way to keep the grass cut.

The move has sparked fury among families who have relatives buried there with the animals being allowed to roam over graves and destroy mementoes which are left.

They say the graveyard looks like it has been “vandalised” but leaders at Holy Trinity Church in Grazeley say there is no money to pay for gardeners and grazing sheep is a traditional and cheap way of keeping the grass short.

Nicola Millard, 39, from Woodley, discovered the sheep when she went to visit the graves of her grandparents.

She said: “The area they have put the sheep is where people still tend the graves.

“There is a little turnstile I go in rather than the main gates and I arrived to see four of them stood on my nan’s grave. I was so heartbroken.”