The funeral of a North-East teenager who died in a holiday cliff fall takes place on Thursday.

Terri Ellwood, 16, from Peterlee, County Durham, died after walking along the cliff-tops near Filey, North Yorkshire, with her boyfriend and another couple they had met from Sunderland.

The four had gone out in the early hours of last Wednesday, October 1, but it is believed Terri may have unwittingly wandered onto a side path in the dark, which led straight over the edge of Gristhorpe Cliffs.

The teenager and one of the women, aged 30, fell between 80 and 100ft. The Sunderland woman suffered head and leg injuries.

It had been Terri's first holiday without her parents and she was staying with her boyfriend and his parents in a caravan at the Blue Dolphin holiday centre.

Terri was a pupil at St Bede's RC Comprehensive in Peterlee, but left school this summer and was planning to start a hairdressing course on her return from holiday.

She lived with her father, Terry, in Forth Close, Peterlee and had three grown-up sisters and a brother, together with an eight-month-old sister.

The funeral will be held at 10am on Thursday (Oct 9), at Our Lady of the Rosary RC Church on Passfield Way, in Peterlee.

The family have said anyone who knew Terri will be welcome.

Following her burial, the family will gather at Peterlee Catholic Club, on Grampian Drive.