A full graveyards crisis which has reportedly left grieving families struggling to find burial spaces for loved ones can be fixed with urgent action from MPs, an expert has suggested.

More than 100,000 burials take place annually in the UK, but in some areas space for new graves is said to be at a premium, with costs rising in those cemeteries which have room and local authorities reportedly mulling whether they can afford to provide new spaces amid current financial pressures.

Mike Birkinshaw…