The petitioner, the elderly son of the deceased, who had died in 1962 and 1970 respectively, sought a permission for the installation of kerbstones and chippings on his parents' grave. Permission was sought on the basis that the changes would limit the regular and distressing interference with the grave from moles and that the kerbs would provide space to record the names of the petitioner's wife and, in time, the petitioner and his brother. In refusing a faculty the chancellor found that moles were a naturally occurring phenomenon which were not a proper or sufficient justification for a departure from the churchyard regulations. He indicated that he would be sympathetic towards a petition to replace the existing headstone (which already contravened the churchyard regulations) with a larger stone in order that there would be space to commemorate the petitioner and his wife and brother. [RA]