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‘Let her dance to heaven’: funeral takes place of Alice, 9, who died in Southport attack
Slowly, as the hundreds of mourners who had lined the streets bowed their heads and applauded, the white coffin of nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar made its way by horse-drawn carriage to St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Southport. “Let her dance to …