Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy and Girls Aloud stars arrive for funeral

Mourners are beginning to arrive at the small stone clad church in the Home Counties, where the air is heavy with grieve as the funeral of One Direction star Liam Payne is due to begin.

The church yard is filling up with guests. As friends, family and fans of the singer arrive with faces of sorrow, clutching flowers and keepsakes.

Kimberly Walsh and Nicola Robertson from Girls Aloud were the first to arrive, as the singers left cars sporting sunglasses.

Liam's former bandmates from One Direction - Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan - are all expected to join the service alongside his girlfriend Kate Cassidy who has been left heartbroken.

Girl Aloud sister Cheryl , mother to Liams 7-year-old son, Bear, is also anticipated to be present at the funeral today, alongside the pairs young son.

The One Direction star tragically passed away on October 16 at the age of 31 after he fatally fell from the third floor balcony of his hotel room in Argentina, as an autopsy revealed that he suffered internal and external bleeding as a result of the fall.

It was announced last week that three people have been charged in connection to the stars death in Southern America.

One individual who was accompanying the singer daily in Argentina, is being charged with abandonment of a person followed by death, which could result in 15-years in prison, whilst the other was an employee at the hotel where Liam was staying, and the third person who allegedly supplied the singer with the drugs.

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