Linda Nolan’s family and friends to honour her ‘remarkable life’ at funeral

Linda Nolan’s household and friends volition wage their respects astatine a ceremonial work celebrating her “remarkable life”.

Members of the nationalist are besides invited to stitchery astatine the religion for the work astatine 10.30am connected Saturday astatine St Paul’s Church successful Blackpool, Lancashire.

Nolan joined her hubby of much than 2 decades, Brian Hudson, successful the church, and said goodbye to him determination aft helium died successful 2007, according to her family.

Dublin-born vocalist Nolan died connected January 15 astatine the property of 65 successful the seaside town’s hospital, surrounded by her family.

Her sister Anne posted connected Instagram, saying “we laic our fantastic sister Linda to rest” this weekend.

“There’s been a spot of disorder regarding the religion work and the crematorium. Just to clarify everyone is invited to some services,” she added.

“There whitethorn not beryllium seating disposable arsenic some places are tiny and evidently we are a large household truthful astir of the seating volition beryllium taken by america but if you don’t caput lasting we would emotion you to beryllium determination and we cognize Linda would beryllium thrilled.”

“Everyone who knew Linda, oregon whose lives she touched, are invited to travel and wage their respects arsenic we retrieve her singular life,” The Nolans’ authoritative leafage connected Instagram said.

The connection besides described Nolan arsenic a “beloved sister, person and entertainer” and a “symbol of hope, humour and resilience”.

The household are raising wealth for Trinity Hospice, which Nolan supported, and person asked that donations and messages of condolence should beryllium sent to a memorial leafage successful her memory.

More than £2,450 has been raised connected the Much Loved tract truthful far.

Nolan, who roseate to fame successful household radical The Nolans with her sisters Coleen, Maureen, Bernie, Denise and Anne, had agelong been a campaigner and fundraiser for crab awareness, having been diagnosed with bosom crab successful 2005.

The vocalist was admitted to Blackpool Victoria Hospital with treble pneumonia earlier this month, and went into a coma, according to her manager Dermot McNamara.

He said she died “with her loving siblings by her bedside”.

Nolan had been diagnosed with bosom crab successful 2005 and was fixed the all-clear successful 2011, but successful 2017 was diagnosed with secondary bosom cancer.

In 2020 it dispersed and by 2023 was successful her brain.

Nolan said she had started taking the life-extending cause Enhertu, successful August 2024, which she described arsenic “amazing”, and pushed for different radical to person this “opportunity” to instrumentality it.

She was besides known for Celebrity Big Brother, a Daily Mirror column, and philharmonic theatre appearances successful shows specified arsenic Blood Brothers, Pump Boys And Dinettes and Prisoner Cell Block H.

Outside her TV and philharmonic career, Nolan helped to rise much than £20 cardinal for galore charities, including Breast Cancer Now, Irish Cancer Society and Samaritans.