Sir Cliff Richard will sing tribute at Cilla Black’s funeral

Sir Cliff Richard is due to sing at Cilla Black's funeral, which will take place in Liverpool later today.

Family, friends and fans will pay their respects to say their final farewell to the presenter, who passed away age 72 after suffering a stroke in Spain earlier this month.

Sir Cliff will sing at the Mass at the Mass at St Mary's RC Church in Woolton, where other celebrities Paul O'Grady, Jimmy Tarbuck and Christopher Biggins will join Cilla's sons Robert and Ben Willis in giving readings.

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It is reported Sir Cliff will perform *Faithful One, *after a hymn and greeting by the Right Reverend Thomas Williams, Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool.

Robert will read Henry Scott-Holland's poem Death Is Nothing At All, while Ben will read a passage by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Christopher will read a verse from the Bible and Jimmy will read the *Prayers of the Faithful, *while Paul will give a closing tribute to his good friend.

During Holy Communion, Cilla's 1964 hit Anyone Who Had A Heart will play and The Long And Winding Road by her friends The Beatles has been chosen as the recessional music.

Fans have been asked not to gather outside the church itself, but to line-up in a two-mile stretch of the funeral cortege route along Woolton Road, for the funeral which will begin at 1pm.

People have also kindly been asked not to travel to Woolton village today as "this may compromise the funeral party and invited guests from attending".

The funeral cortege will start at the junction of Woolton Road and Church Road North, and will travel to the junction with Blackwood Avenue before continuing to the church, where Cilla and husband Bobby Willis had their marriage blessed in 1969, following a register office wedding earlier that year.

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