THE funeral was held yesterday of a North-East business woman who died only weeks after emigrating to Cyprus to get married and start a new life.

Lynne Bromley, 49, from Tudhoe, County Durham, and her fiance, George Heywood, moved to the island in April and planned to marry there on May 7.

But within 12 hours of their arrival, the beloved mother suffered a brain haemorrhage and died three weeks later.

Yesterday friends and family said a final farewell to Mrs Bromley, who was described as beautiful on the inside and the outside during the service at St Paul’s Church, in Spennymoor.

The Reverend Lynda Gough said: “Lynne was a beautiful lady, youthful, charismatic, full of fun and laughter but more importantly she had an inner beauty.” She said Mrs Bromley was a wonderful mother to son Glyn Porter, 25, and daughter Kelly Long, 29, and adored ten-year-old granddaughter Leah.

Ms Gough said Mrs Bromley made friends easily, was caring and thoughtful and was persuasive and astute with an entrepreneurial flair.

She lived in the Spennymoor area all her life and worked in factories for Black & Decker, Rothmans and Ebac before launching a new packaging business, Tape Right Convertors, in 1996. She went on to run four of her own companies in south Durham.

“She knew how to work hard, play hard and relax and chill out big time,” said Ms Gough.

Travelling was one of her passions, and she and Mr Heywood had enjoyed holidays in Portugal, Abu Dhabi and Cyprus, and spent Christmas in Goa during the year they were a couple.

Reading a letter from Mrs Bromley’s children, Ms Gough said: “We are so proud of you.

“You made so much sunshine and inspired so much joy into the lives of everyone who was lucky enough to have known you.

“We love you with all our hearts and feel incredibly lucky to be gifted with a mam like you. Goodnight mam, Kelly and Glyn”

■ The Northern Echo attended the funeral with the permission of the family.