The casket containing Professor Stephen Hawking is carried into the University Church of St Mary the Great in Cambridge (Joe Giddens/PA)
The funeral of Professor Stephen Hawking has been at a church near the Cambridge University college that was his academic home for more than 50 years.
Renowned British physicist Prof Hawking died peacefully at his Cambridge home on March 14 at the age of 76.
The cosmologist had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in his 20s.
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