Friends and family gather for Lynda Bellingham funeral
Friends and family have gathered for the funeral of actress and TV presenter Lynda Bellingham, who died from cancer last month.
Lynda Bellingham: I wanted family to remember me happy
Lynda Bellingham told ITV's This Morning two weeks ago that she had come to terms with her cancer and had used her final months to talk more with her children.
Discussing the launch of her book, There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You, she said she was "overwhelmed" by the responses she had received since revealing her battle with the disease.
But on the decision to end her chemotherapy, she insisted: "I haven't decided to die."
Bellingham said she had told her husband and children: "I don't want you to see me at the last - I want you to remember me happy."
The 66-year-old told Philip Schofield and Amanda Holden she was "determined to hang on until Christmas" - a wish publicly shared by her husband - but has sadly died just weeks later.
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Letter Lynda Bellingham wrote to sons read at funeral
A poignant letter Lynda Bellingham wrote to her two sons was read out by the pair at her funeral service in Somerset today.
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Lynda Bellingham: Fans call for return of Oxo ads
ITV News readers have called for the return of the popular Oxo ad series this Christmas as a tribute following Lynda Bellingham's death.
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Lynda Bellingham's emotional last Loose Women episode
The former panellist and Oxo mum made a final, moving return to the show earlier this month - in which she received a rapturous response.