Mourners line streets for Southend funeral of David Amess

Locals gathered outside church pay tribute to one-in-a-million' MP's generosity and sense of humour

The streets of Southend were lined with members of the public coming to pay their respects to an MP who died serving his constituents. Mourners at the funeral of Sir David Amess on Monday paid tribute to a man who always had time for a chat, loved a joke and was dedicated to the people he had been elected to represent.

They thanked him with a round of applause as his coffin, draped in a union flag, was borne into and out of St Mary's parish church in Prittlewell.