A Bradford family has won a battle to get their father’s remains removed from a garden of rest stuck between two busy car parks because it was too noisy.

Leslie Coultous, who died aged 55 in 1977, was laid to rest at St Margaret’s Church, Thornbury, Bradford.

But years later the church was knocked down and replaced and his remains were put in a replacement garden of rest nearby, next to a busy car park.

His family mounted an appeal to get his remains removed and placed in a more peaceful setting, along with his wife Florence, who died last year.

That has now been successful with church judge John Walford, the chancellor of the Diocese of Bradford, making a consistory court ruling to give the family permission to have Mr Coultous’s remains removed and reinterred with his wife in Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford. Mr Coultous’s daughter Sarah, 40, of Maple Avenue, Thornbury, said it was a happy ending to the problems that had gone on for more than 30 years.