A packed church paid their respects to a popular Worcester girl who tragically died last week.

A police escort led a white, hand-made Polish hearse pulled by two white cobb horses from the family home of Stephanie Goodall in Burleigh Road, Dines Green, Worcester, to St Mary's Church, Kempsey.

Stephanie was one of four teenagers killed on the A449 Kidderminster to Worcester road on Sunday, December 10.

Pink flowers spelling out Steph' adorned the top of the horse-drawn carriage while family and friends had also placed wreaths, one in the shape of an S, at the gate of St Mary's Church, Kempsey.

Her parents Malcolm and Linda were at the service along with her brother and sister Steve and Pauline. They were joined by other members of her family and many friends.

As the white coffin was taken into the church, music from one of Stephanie's favourite boybands Blue played out before mourners listened to One Love, also by Blue, and Take That's Patience.

The Rev Peter Holzapfel, who conducted the service, spoke of how he baptised the teenager when she was a baby and described her as a happy girl who embraced life.

He said: "She was so happy because she knew she was loved.

"She was outgoing, had a great sense of fun and a wonderful laugh. She loved life and lived it to the full."

He also told mourners how she loved animals and children and wanted to become a police dog handler, and urged the congregation to follow her lead and live life to the full because he thought that she would not have wanted them to give up on life just because of her death.

Friends Charlotte and Natalie paid tribute to the "best friend anyone could ask for" and spoke of how she always had a smile on her face.

Another close friend, Kayleigh, tearfully read out a self-penned poem before the song You Can Still Be Free by Savage Garden was played as Stephanie's coffin was carried out of the church. She was later buried at St John's Cemetery, McIntyre Road.

Stephanie was killed along with three friends Joanne Bibby, aged 17, Martyn Pickering, aged 18, and Kyle Gadsby, aged 18, when the car they were travelling in hit a tree.