HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday paid their last respects to 16-year-old Terri Ellwood, who died while on holiday in North Yorkshire.

Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church, in Peterlee, County Durham, was packed with hundreds of grieving school friends, family and relatives, who were there to pay tribute to a girl who was described by parish priest, Father Seamus Doyle, as "bright and bubbly".

Terri died in the early hours of Wednesday, last week, when walking along the cliff tops, near Filey, North Yorkshire.

She had been on holiday with her boyfriend and his parents at a caravan park, on her first trip away from home without her parents. The first thing she did on arriving at her destination was to buy presents for her father, Terry, and her mother, who lives near Birmingham.

It is believed that while she was walking along Gristhorpe Cliffs with her 16-year-old boyfriend and two other holiday makers, Terri unwittingly wandered onto a side path in the dark, which led straight over the edge.

One of the other holidaymakers, a 30-year-old woman from Sunderland, also fell over the cliff and was taken to hospital with serious head and leg injuries.

At Terri's funeral yesterday, a cortege set off from the home she had shared with her father in Forth Close, Peterlee.

Following in a silent procession were dozens of Terri's school friends and relatives, who walked behind the car to the church. During the mass, which was led by Father Doyle, some of the teenager's favourite pop songs - Where is the Love? by the Black Eyed Peas and P. Diddy's, I'll Be Missing You -were played.

Father Doyle told the congregation that Terri had just left school and was looking forward to starting a career, but that rather than thinking of what Terri could have been, everyone should remember her as she was.