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Sarah Ward

Hundreds attend funeral for Glasgow schoolgirl, 16, after suspected ecstasy party tragedy

Hundreds of heartbroken mourners have gathered to remember a schoolgirl who died in a suspected ecstasy tragedy.

Around 600 people came together for the funeral of Chelsea Bruce, 16, who died after collapsing at a house party in Springburn, north Glasgow .

Despite paramedics attempts to save Chelsea, who fell ill at around 2.30am on July 7, she died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Two teenage boys who were with her were taken to hospital.

At a funeral at Springburn Parish Church, moving tributes were paid to the bright teen, who was described as having a 'wide smile' which 'showed sincerity, care, and intelligence'.

Mourners have gathered for the funeral of schoolgirl Chelsea Bruce (Facebook)

Rev Brian Casey said: "We have lost one of our brightest and definitely one of our best.

"Anytime I saw Chelsea, the one thing that stood out was her wide smile, from ear to ear.

"A smile that showed sincerity, care, and intelligence.

"A smile that Karen, her mum used to call her 'clown smile' because it was huge but, you couldn't help but smile back.

"She was a girl who was working three jobs this summer to pay for her holiday whilst going back to school at the end of the summer to achieve even better things.

"A girl who had a high standard of academic achievement.

"She was a girl who told off her brother for giving one of his teachers a hard time.

"She had a big heart, a sense of duty and a good work ethic."

Chelsea Bruce's heartbroken friends and family paid tribute (Facebook)

He continued: "She was a girl who cared.

"We are going to hear some wonderful things about this beautiful girl today who had so much life inside of her and had a great life ahead of her.

"And yet today, we have come to say goodbye to Chelsea.

"Today we are grieving as family, friends and as a whole community."

The minister said he would fight to make sure what happened to Chelsea would not happen again.

The service also included the Celine Dion song 'Fly', and a Charles Dickens poem, These Things Shall Never Die.

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