‘Just devastating’: Wolverhampton mourns its local hero Liam Payne

Payne grew up in Bushbury, a suburban area north of the city, where he lived with his parents and two elder sisters

He became one of the biggest faces of pop music, but for the people of his home town Liam Payne will always be the boy from Wolverhampton who made it big.

Before he skyrocketed to fame as a fifth of the boyband One Direction, Payne was an ordinary teenager, studying music technology at the local college and competing in cross-country running competitions across the West Midlands.