Bill Turnbull’s funeral has taken place after the broadcaster lost his five-year battle with prostate cancer at the end of August.
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Williams, who hosted BBC Breakfast alongside Turnbull for more than a decade, told the PA news agency: ‘I think it is a day of sadness and reflection, and I hope sometime today there will also be time to celebrate his life because he was a great friend and a great man. ‘Bill made a lot of friends and he was a very loyal friend and he was great to work with as a professional, but when you’re sitting alongside someone like that there is a lot of trust that goes with that.
Charlotte Hawkins, Martha Kearney, Mike Bushell, Louise Minchin, and Nick Robinson were also in attendance. ‘To sit next to Bill was always an experience, it was always fun, it was always focused but it was also about the audience.
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