Stars paid tribute at the funeral of Brian Gibson, the former advertising feature writer with The Argus in Brighton and Pye/Decca records press officer.
It was attended by more than 100 friends from the worlds of journalism, public relations, music, theatre, film and property.
Chris Ellison, who played DS Burnside in the TV series The Bill, paid a moving tribute and wreaths came from Des O'Connor, Max Clifford and the Brotherhood of Man.

The Scotsman Magazine has been honoured with a Silver Award for its cover design on 2002: A year in pictures.
It also scooped two Awards of Excellence.

The Chester Evening Leader has handed over a 1,000-name reader petition to help persuade councilors to think again about lashing the budget of a community initiative, The Blacon Project.
The Leader has been running a high profile campaign to save the group from closure.

A Pensioner is alive thanks to the Evening Post's Start-a-Heart campaign.
Security staff at the Victoria shopping centre gave Jim Vallance the kiss of life and used a defibrillator paid for by the newspaper's appeal fund to restore a normal heart beat after he suffered a cardiac arrest while out shopping.

In Leicestershire, The Mercury's own Start-a-Heart campaign has bought its first defibrillator just two weeks after an appeal was launched.
The campaign aims to buy five machines for St John Ambulance staff to use.

A missing moggy is back with its owners after a 260-mile round trip - and a little help from the Derby Telegraph.
The Derby cat somehow ended up in Bristol and the Telegraph stepped in to get it home after its owner revealed she could not drive and got travel sick on trains.

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