'I Had to Come Because It Would Be a Burden for the Rest of My Life If I Didn't Make This Journey' Her Public Say Goodbye to Jade

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WITH all the formal street choreography of East End gangland mourning, mixed with the staged pomp of a Diana-style state funeral, London yesterday said goodbye to 27-year-old reality-television star Jade Goody, in a procession of grief that looked like a tear- jerking, series-ending finale.

"It's a circus, " said one weeping woman on her way to the funeral service at St John the Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Dressed in a Burberry woollen hat and massive sunglasses, she added again: "It's a circus, but it's what Jade would have wanted."

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'I Had to Come Because It Would Be a Burden for the Rest of My Life If I Didn't Make This Journey' Her Public Say Goodbye to Jade

Why had she come all the way from West Ruislip to Essex? "I had to come because it would have been a burden for the rest of my life if I didn't make this journey. She was amazing."

Hundreds of police officers who had last week been providing security for the G20 world leaders and international media...

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