Mourners packed a Holme Wood church to say their goodbyes to tragic cancer bride Susan Yates.

The 39-year-old mum-of-four lost her fight for life just days after leaving her hospital bed to marry her sweetheart.

She was carried in a horse-drawn carriage from her home in Kirkwall Drive to St Christopher's Church for yesterday's funeral before making her final journey to Scholemoor Crematorium.

Her family were joined at the church by well-wishers, many wearing Susan's favourite colour purple, all wanting to pay their last respects.

A wedding photograph was taken into the church, followed by Susan's coffin. Her grieving husband Graham and son Andrew were among the pall bearers.

Leading the service, the Reverend Gordon Dey described Susan as an "angel who touched many lives" and "a treasure" who liked to live life to the full.

Susan's sister Gillian Hird told mourners there were so many lovely things she could say about her but it would "take all day" so she had written a poem instead.

Mourners sobbed as they listened to Susan and Graham's special song, Unbreakable by Westlife - the first dance at their wedding reception.

The brave bride had amazed guests when she made it to her wedding ceremony on time despite being rushed into hospital with agonising stomach pains the night before.

She had decided to bring forward her wedding because she knew time was short and although she made it through the ceremony she was rushed back to hospital ten minutes into their wedding reception at Holme Wood Social Club.

Susan met her husband shortly before she was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2001. She went back to work at Asda after doctors removed a tumour but last Christmas found a lump on her tummy which turned out to be cancerous. Chemotherapy failed to shrink the tumour and in March this year doctors gave her just two years to live but her condition deteriorated quicker than expected.

A collection was taken at the end of the service for Bradford Royal Infirmary's Ward 15 where Susan was cared for.