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.
Husband and sons help carry Lynda Bellingham's coffin
The service began as Bellingham's husband Michael, and sons Michael, 31, and Robert, 26, helped carry her wooden coffin adorned with white flowers into the church as Elgar's Nimrod - The Enigma Variations played.
Mourners following in behind the coffin wept as they carried single white roses.
The congregation sang the hymn Lead us heavenly Father before Loose Women star Lisa Maxwell read The Epistle to the Romans (ch 8.31-39).
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Letter Lynda Bellingham wrote to sons read at funeral
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