Hundreds of police line street at A66 crash colleague’s funeral

Bagpipers lead the funeral cortege through the streets lined with police colleagues at the ceremonial parade to the funeral of Pc Matthew Blades (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Wire)

Hundreds of police officers lined the street at the funeral of a colleague who was killed in a collision on the A66.

Standard bearers represented every UK force at the service for Pc Matthew Blades, 37, at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in his home town of Hartlepool.