Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
BELLS TRIBUTE FOR SIR TOM’S FUNERAL
Flypast, guns salute at NHS hero’s farewell
CHURCH bells will ring out across the UK at noon today in a “spectacular” funeral for Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Daughter Lucy Teixeira revealed that although his service will be attended by just eight family members – she and sister Hannah Ingram-moore, his four grandkids and his sons-in-law – they have made sure it will be just as the fundraiser planned. A Second World War-era C-47 Dakota will soar overhead while six soldiers from the Yorkshire Regiment will carry his coffin into the crematorium. The veteran, 100, who raised £32million for the NHS with a sponsored walk of his garden, served with the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in the war.
It later merged with two others, becoming the Yorkshire Regiment, and Capt Sir Tom was made an Honorary Colonel last
August. A firing party of 14 will fire three rounds and a bugler will sound Last Post after the private service in Bedfordshire.
Capt Sir Tom died at Bedford Hospital on February 2 after testing positive for Covid-19 and also had pneumonia. Lucy, 52, said: “We will honour him the best way we possibly can.”
The Trees for Tom initiative aims to plant a wood in his native Yorkshire and reforest part of India, where he served.
Lucy received many messages from well-wishers and said it was “wonderful” to see people writing in an online book of condolence.
My Way will be played at the funeral and Capt Sir Tom’s epitaph is “I told you I was old”, in reference to comic Spike Milligan’s famous “I told you I was ill”.
Capt Sir Tom’s ashes will eventually be interred in Yorkshire. tom.parry@mirror.co.uk
Aw, I love this picture of Paul Mccartney and wife Nancy, still looking like love’s young dream aged 78 and 61 respectively. Paul is one of the nicest, most unaffected people I have ever interviewed (we did the chat sat on cushions on the floor of a recording studio – so relaxed I could have stayed all day).
I am thrilled to hear, then, that Paul is to release his autobiography, featuring lyrics from his much-listened-to timeless catalogue. The good news is, the keenly awaited tome will be on sale from November 2.
So, “With a Little Luck” one of them might find its way into my Christmas stocking!
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Grayson Perry reckons the secret to a happy marriage is “rubbing each other’s corners off”. Tried that. Without the corners, you just end up going round in circles.