Cilla Black funeral: ‘Ta-ra girl, see you on life’s highway’

“Ta-ra girl, I’ll see you on life’s highway,” comedian Paul O’Grady said, thanking Cilla Black for all the good times they shared as he said goodbye to the much-loved singer and TV presenter at her funeral.

Thousands of fans and mourners packed the streets outside St Mary’s Church in the Woolton suburb of Liverpool and celebrities including Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Andrew Lloyd-Webber joined Black’s friends and family to remember a young woman who found fame in the halcyon days of British pop in the 1960s and went on to become one of the nation’s favourite TV presenters.