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| Funeral held for Norman Tebbit at Bury St Edmunds cathedral | Funeral held for Norman Tebbit at Bury St Edmunds cathedral |
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| The funeral was held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds | The funeral was held at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds |
| The funeral service for former Conservative cabinet minister Norman Tebbit has been held at the cathedral in the town where he lived. | The funeral service for former Conservative cabinet minister Norman Tebbit has been held at the cathedral in the town where he lived. |
| Lord Tebbit died at his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 7 July, aged 94. | |
| He was injured in an IRA bombing in Brighton in 1984, which left his wife Margaret permanently paralysed. | He was injured in an IRA bombing in Brighton in 1984, which left his wife Margaret permanently paralysed. |
| Tributes were paid during the ceremony from members of Lord Tebbit's family. A private service is being held afterwards. | Tributes were paid during the ceremony from members of Lord Tebbit's family. A private service is being held afterwards. |
| The funeral was held in Bury St Edmunds, where Lord Tebbit lived | The funeral was held in Bury St Edmunds, where Lord Tebbit lived |
| The funeral was live streamed online and included hymns sung by a choir. | The funeral was live streamed online and included hymns sung by a choir. |
| His daughter Alison said that he had loved Bury St Edmunds and thanked carers who had looked after Lord Tebbit and his wife. | His daughter Alison said that he had loved Bury St Edmunds and thanked carers who had looked after Lord Tebbit and his wife. |
| She described him as "gentle, kind, sometimes ferociously passionate and uncompromising in pursuit of his ideals". | |
| Son William spoke of his father's love of cricket. | Son William spoke of his father's love of cricket. |
| Former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who followed Lord Tebbit as MP for Chingford in north-east London, read a religious passage. | |
| Sir Iain called Lord Tebbit a "great servant to his country" who had a "wonderfully wicked sense of humour". | |
| Other Conservative party figures attending the funeral included Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Sir Graham Brady, Lord Deben and Baroness Therese Coffey. | |
| The funeral ceremony lasted about an hour and a half | |
| Lord Michael Dobbs gave a eulogy during the service and said the Brighton bombing had left Lord Tebbit injured "far more seriously than many know" and had left him in pain "every day". | |
| The explosion at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the annual Conservative Party conference in 1984 killed five people and seriously injured 31. | |
| Lord Dobbs said Lord Tebbit decided to leave politics to care for his wife and described his devotion to Margaret as "total". | |
| Lord Tebbit served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's government and throughout the 1980s he worked as the chairman of the Conservative Party. | |
| A loyal ally of Thatcher, Lord Tebbit backed her agenda, bringing in laws designed to curb union power - including making them liable for damages if they committed illegal acts. | |
| Lord Tebbit's children, William, John and Alison arrived at the cathedral with their partners | |
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