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Remembering Kayleigh Haywood - one year on from the teenager's murder

15-year-old Kayleigh was groomed online before being raped, killed and dumped in a field. Today, a special memorial service is being held in her home village of Measham. And pupils at a school in Leicestershire have been shown "Kayleigh's Love Story", a film which shows how she was groomed online.

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"The people of Measham would want to say that Kayleigh was not forgotten."

A service will take place tonight to remember Kayleigh Haywood who was raped and murdered in Ibstock in Leicestershire a year ago.

Reverend Vivian Elphick is leading the memorial service at St Laurence Church in Kayleigh's home village of Measham. She says that "life must go on as normal, because that's the best counter to evil" that she knows of.

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