Marvel superfan Ollie Jones, four, died from a rare genetic disorder last year and was given a Spider-Man themed funeral, featuring a horse-drawn carriage decorated in red and blue balloons. His dad Lloyd Jones asked the council for permission to get an etching of Spider-Man on Ollie’s gravestone as he wanted the image to remind him of his son.

Council officials told Lloyd to contact the Walt Disney Company, which owns the Marvel franchise. The rejection email from the US-based giant instead offered the devastated family a personalised celluloid frame – effectively an action frame taken from a comic or film – showing a scene from Spider-Man, with a hand-written message to Ollie.

Dad-of-six Lloyd said: ‘I really wasn’t expecting this – it’s another massive blow.

‘I felt sure they would allow it.’ says his father 

Please help to give this father something to remember his son by.