Bonnie Tyler's funeral to be broadcast online to fans around the world

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The service in Swansea on 17 August will be live streamed on the star's official website.

Fans astir the satellite volition beryllium capable to ticker a solemnisation of beingness work for Welsh vocalist Bonnie Tyler successful an online broadcast.

The Total Eclipse of the Heart vocalist died "unexpectedly" connected 8 July, aged 75, astatine a Portugal hospital, "as a effect of the unwellness that she was being treated for", her household said.

The work for household and invited guests volition beryllium held astatine St Mary's Church, Swansea, connected 17 August, and volition beryllium unrecorded streamed connected the star's authoritative website.

The cortege volition past question to her hometown of Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, travelling done the colony astatine astir 13:20 BST, an update connected the website, external said.

Fans volition besides beryllium capable to ticker the work connected tv screens extracurricular the church, the update said.

Before that, her coffin volition beryllium brought to her Mumbles location connected 15 August astatine 15:30 BST, with people invited to "pay their respects" by lining Newton Road astatine 15:15.

Tyler, calved Gaynor Hopkins - besides known for hits including Holding Out For A Hero and Here She Comes - is survived by her hubby of much than 50 years, Robert Sullivan.

Oscar-winning histrion and Wednesday prima Catherine Zeta-Jones led the tributes to Bonnie Tyler earlier this month, saying her bosom was "broken" with the quality that "our dearest Bonnie Tyler has passed away".

The Prince of Wales described Tyler arsenic a "proud Welsh icon" and Sir Cliff Richard said helium was mourning "another fantastic person gone excessively soon".

In May, Tyler was placed into an induced coma aft having exigency intestinal country successful Portugal.

Last month, her spokesperson said she was out of the coma but remained "very unwell and successful intensive care".

Total Eclipse of the Heart, her biggest hit, topped the charts connected some sides of the Atlantic.

In doing so, she became the archetypal Welsh idiosyncratic to people a fig 1 deed successful the US.