Funerals held for crash victims

The aircraft crashed in the Scottish countryside on Monday

The funerals have taken place of an Essex councillor and his family who died in a light aircraft crash.

John Smith, from Burnham-on-Crouch, his wife Angela and their daughter Jacqueline all died in the crash on farm land near Oban, west Scotland.

The plane carrying the family, which took off from Oban on 10 April, before being lost from radar screens, was heading for an airfield in Essex.

The service was held at St Mary's Church near the family's home.

Wreckage, which was spread over a 400m area above Loch Scammadale, was found by sheep farmer Angus McFadyen and his son on the day of the crash.

Mr Smith had been a Conservative member of Maldon District Council since the early 1990s and was understood to have been at the controls of the aircraft.