A service has taken place in Birstall a week after an attack that killed MP Jo Cox.

People gathered in the market square to mark the exact time a week ago that the Batley and Spen MP was attacked.

Ms Cox was fatally injured outside the village library and tributes to her placed around a nearby statue have grown over the last seven days to form a carpet of thousands of flowers, messages and balloons.

More than 100 people ringed the makeshift memorial for moments of silence, hymns and eulogies led by the vicar of St Peter's Church, the Reverend Paul Knight.

Rev Knight told the crowd, who held hands around the memorial: "We're meeting seven days on from the tragedy that hit our community when our MP, Jo Cox, was brutally killed.

"We're meeting today to remember her, to pray for her family and to pledge ourselves to a better world.

"To pledge ourselves to unity, because that was certainly one of Jo's passions."

Speaking at this lunchtime's service, Rev Lesley Anne Mattacks, of St Saviour's Church, Birstall, said: "The town is beginning to come to terms with what happened, but it is going to take a while.

"What is clear is it will not break this community apart, we'll stick together. "This service is organised by all the churches in Birstall to mark that a week ago Jo was tragically killed, and to hold everyone while we come to terms with the loss.

"I have seen the impact she has had, it's been phenomenal the number of people she has helped.

"As a church we met her and enjoyed her bubbly enthusiasm and we've seen how she was worked in the community. She has done so much and touched the lives of so many.

"Jo was just a lovely person who expressed love to everyone and would do whatever she could to help. She was a woman of the people."

Rev Roger Smith, of Birstall Methodist Church, said: "She had a passion for the local and the global issues, and tied them together.

"I think she was someone full of hope, the last time I met her she was speaking about Palestine where she worked with Oxfam. She was realistic about the situation, but she refused to give up hope."