A BLACKBURN family kept a promise to give a relative a good send off arranging for her coffin to be carried by a horse and carriage.

Theresa Flanagan, of Patterdale Avenue, died in hospital on May 2 as a result of chronic pneumonia and respiratory problems just weeks after celebrating her 70th birthday.

But the popular mother of seven made her final journey in style, with a horse and carriage taking her body from the chapel of rest at Grimshaw Park to St Anthony's Church for requiem mass before burial at Great Harwood Cemetery.

Her son-in-law, Terry Davies, 40, of Intack, said: "The horse and carriage idea stems from her son Shaun, who would always say Mum you are going to have the best funeral, nothing is too good for you'.

"She was a fantastic mother-in-law. She was the sort of person who everybody liked and always had an open door."