HUNDREDS of people said an emotional farewell to a much-loved teenager who died at a music festival.

Friends and family attended the moving service in memory of 17-year-old Megan Bell, in Seaham, County Durham.

She died on Thursday, July 7 at the T in the Park festival in Perthshire before any of the acts had taken to the stage.

Her funeral was held today (Tuesday, July 19) at St Mary Magdalen's Church in Seaham.

A floral tribute spelt out ‘Our Angel’ in the back the hearse and she was carried into the service to My Girl by The Temptations.

Father Frank McCullagh told mourners that the day of her funeral was the day Megan should have been starting to train as hairdresser.

He said: “Megan was beautiful person, inside and out, always willing to help others and who loved all her family dearly.

“There wasn’t a bad bone in her. She had a life filled love. A love she both gave and received. The love that brought people together, as it has today.”

Father McCullagh led the congregation through Morning Has Broken before personal statements about her circle of friends and a poem she wrote at school were read out by those closest to her.

Megan’s cousin, Stacey, read a poem written by the villagers of Braco in Scotland, near to where she died.

Peter McCallum, also 17, of Lochgilphead, Argyll, also died in a separate incident at the festival.

Police are not treating either death as suspicious.

Megan, a former pupil of St Anthony’s Catholic Girls’ Academy, is survived by parents Christopher and Lisa and siblings Josh, Maddy and Jenny.

The funeral service follows an outpouring of grief at a seafront vigil in Seaham on Thursday night.

The sky was filled with blue and white balloons, Megan’s favourite colours, while candles were also lit in her memory.

Megan was the granddaughter of Councillors Eddie and Jenny Bell, who represent the area on both Seaham Town Council and Durham County Council.

Eddie Bell is the current chairman of Durham County Council and the Mayor of Durham.

Her grandmother, Jenny, made a touching speech about the sunshine Megan brought to their lives and thanked people for their support.

She also urged young people to learn a lesson from the tragedy and to look after each other.

She said: “Megan touched so many hearts and filled each with sunshine.

“Out of this horrible, unbearable, unthinkable tragedy we have to find something positive and what I am asking each every one of you, especially her young friends, in Megan’s memory: keep safe.

“Keep all of your friends safe. Let this be Megan’s legacy. Keep safe.”

*The Northern Echo attended Megan's funeral with the permission of her family.