Funeral service for teenage couple killed in Manchester terror attack held today
PA Funeral service for teenage couple killed in the Manchester atrocity
The service for Liam Curry, 19, and Chloe Rutherford, 17, will take place at St Hilda's Church in South Shields, South Tyneside. The couple's families have asked people attending to wear pink and blue for the funeral. The teenagers, who were described as "inseparable", were among the 22 people killed in the terror attack on the Ariana Grande concert last month.
They were always such a perfect couple Graeme Brett
Miss Rutherford was studying music at college and was about to start an apprenticeship in travel. Graeme Brett, the owner of Westoe Travel in South Shields where she worked part-time, said: "She was a lovely, bubbly girl. "The photograph you saw of her smiling, that's just her."
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He added: "Liam would come and pick her up after work - he was always there early waiting for her. "The two of them were always together, very close, he was a lovely lad. "They were always such a perfect couple."
GOOGLE MAPS The joint funeral will be held at St Hilda's Church, South Shields today