THE grieving father of brave Midland youngster Laura Greenway has told of his heartache at not being able to fulfil her funeral wishes.

Laura, of Kingshurst, Solihull, passed away in a Newcastle hospital last week with her devastated family by her bedside.

They took the heart-breaking decision to turn off the 18-year-old’s life support machine after complications during an operation to give her an artificial lung had left her brain dead.

Laura had spent four years meticulously planning her funeral and wake after being diagnosed with the rare terminal illness Idiopathic Pulmonary Artery Hypertension.

She especially asked to be buried at Brandwood End Cemetery, in Birmingham as it was where she and her fiancé Chris Green visited the grave of Chris’s nephew on countless occasions.

But it’s one wish her father Peter, 46, cannot fulfil because Birmingham City Council say the cemetery is full.

And even if there had been room at the cemetery Peter said would not have been able to bury Laura there because of the inflated cost of £5,287 for non-Birmingham residents – compared to £2,318 for people who live in the city.

Yet the youngster worked hard to inspire so many people with her battle against sickness when she was alive.

And when she died her kidneys were used to treat a man aged 32 and a 55-year-old woman, while her lungs are being used for research into the condition which cruelly claimed her life.