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Ethan Davies & Neil Shaw

Parents want baby exhumed after workers dumped memorial in skip

A grieving father has said he wants his baby daughter exhumed after council workers removed her memorial and dumped it in a skip.

Valencia was stillborn last June after mum Keelie Walker caught Covid while pregnant, and she was buried in Mill Lane Cemetery in Cheadle. Dad Ryan Stokes said he was told the family could create a memorial within 1ft of the burial site, which the family did.

But on Tuesday they arrived to find the site cleared, and their possessions had been dumped in a skip.

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