Household and followers say goodbye to singer Linda Nolan at Blackpool funeral | Pop and rock

Followers of the singer Linda Nolan have gathered as her funeral passed off in Blackpool.

Individuals applauded as a hearse, carrying a pink glittery coffin lined with flowers, arrived at St Paul’s church within the Lancashire city.

Nolan’s sisters, Anne, Maureen, Coleen and Denisewalked to the church to say their goodbyes together with associates and kin. Some wore conventional black outfits, whereas others sported pink ribbons or carried pink purses. Mourners signed a guide of condolence exterior.

In a eulogy, Denise Nolan-Anderson stated of Linda: “She actually liked going to premieres and opening nights, having her lovely hair and make-up performed, and at all times was the life and soul of any massive event. She would have liked all of the fuss at present.”

Entertainers together with the EastEnders actor Shane Richie and Paul Elliott, the comic higher often called Paul Chuckle of the Chuckle Brothers, had been amongst those that attended the service.

Elliott stated of the singer: “She was only a enjoyable, bubbly individual. The world’s a darker place with out her.”

Dublin-born Nolan alongside along with her sisters was a part of the pop group the Nolans, greatest identified for his or her 70s hit, I’m within the Temper for Dancing. The singer died on 15 January, aged 65, 20 years after being identified with most cancers.

Nolan misplaced her husband, Brian Hudson, to pores and skin most cancers in 2007. He was 60. A personal service passed off after the funeral at a crematorium, the place she was laid to relaxation along with her husband’s ashes.

Her sister Coleen instructed the Mirror: “My first thought after she died was to place Brian’s ashes with Linda’s. In order that’s what we’re doing. In life, they had been by no means aside, so I’m glad they’ll be collectively once more.”

In 2005, Nolan was identified with breast most cancers. She underwent a mastectomy in 2006 and was in remission in 2011.

In 2017, she fell on her hip and was taken to hospital, the place medical doctors found an incurable secondary breast most cancers on her pelvis. The tumours subsequently unfold to her mind and in the end stopped responding to common remedy.

In 2023 Nolan stated she was making ready for “the inevitable” and that she had “sobbed” to her marketing consultant when she heard the remedy was ineffective.

“I had feared one thing was fallacious. My steadiness has been getting worse, and my reminiscence – my sisters should immediate me once I get misplaced in the course of a sentence,” she instructed the Mirror.

“Maureen got here with me to the appointment and my Macmillan most cancers help nurse was within the room, and I may simply inform. I requested my marketing consultant immediately: ‘Has it unfold?’

“When he instructed me, I instantly requested: ‘What can we do now?’”

Nolan got here down with double pneumonia earlier in January and was taken to Blackpool Victoria hospital, the place she grew to become comatose, her supervisor Dermot McNamara stated. She died “along with her loving siblings by her bedside”, he added.

Nolan’s sister Anne posted on social media earlier than the funeral that Linda could be “thrilled” if her associates and followers got here to say their goodbyes.

The Instagram message known as Nolan a “beloved sister, pal and entertainer” and a “image of hope, humour and resilience”.