Mourners are to pay their respects to ex-Tory minister Ann Widdecombe as she is laid to rest today near her Devon home.
Her funeral service is taking place later at the Catholic abbey where she regularly worshipped.
A private requiem mass will be held for the former MP, who later became a Reform UK spokeswoman, at Buckfast Abbey in Devon.
It will include a homily from the Rt Rev David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast.
The 78-year-old was a frequent worshipper in the Abbey Church.
She died on July 8 after she was hit over the head with a hammer 21 times at her home in
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