Saffie Roussos: Friends and family remember youngest Manchester victim at her funeral

Friends and family of the youngest victim of the Manchester attack have put out a montage of pictures and videos of the eight-year-old so she can be remembered by the whole country.

Saffie Roussos' funeral was held on Wednesday, and family and friends paid their tributes.

The schoolchild was excited to see her idol Ariana Grande at the concert, after receiving tickets for Christmas.

Ms Roussos, from Leyland, Lancashire, attended the concert with her sister, who was treated for injuries at the scene, and her mother who woke up from a coma after the attack to find her youngest daughter had lost her life.

In a video released by her family, music by her pop idol, Ariana Grande, plays as the eight-year-old is pictured in a series of family snaps, happily playing with her brother Zander, smiling alongside her parents on family holidays, wearing make-up and dressing up.

The YouTube clip, set to the Grande song One Last Time, was shared as her funeral gets under way, and the three-minute video is captioned: "She always wanted to be a YouTube star, she was a confident, bright young girl full of life love, joy and happiness."

Saffie's friends hope the video, which will be shown at her funeral, will be liked and shared using the hashtag £Saffiethesuperstar to fulfil her dream of becoming a YouTube star.

She was one of 22 people, seven of them aged under 18, murdered in the terror attack as fans streamed out of Manchester Arena following the concert.

She was leaving "happy and elated" after the show with her sister Ashlee Bromwich, 26, and mother, Lisa Roussos, 48, when suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated his home-made bomb packed with nuts and bolts in the foyer of the Arena.

Saffie, who died of multiple injuries, is the last of the victims to be laid to rest.

Her funeral was held at Manchester Cathedral.

Her father, Andrew Roussos, who owns a fish and chip shop with his wife, spoke of how he had to break the news that his daughter had died to her mother.

Mr Roussos said that when she woke she knew her daughter had died, saying, "Saffie's gone, isn't she?".

He said he "nodded, and that was it. That's all that was said really".

Speaking of his little girl, he told the BBC: "You couldn't go out with Saffie without having fun, but her dream was to be famous.

"It was her everything. And we bought her the tickets for Christmas, she was counting the days, the seconds."

He said she was "a stunning young girl".

He explained: "She was a joker. She was a huge character. She was just everything you could wish for in a little girl.

"She loved dancing, music, gymnastics. If she wanted something, she would do it," he added.

"[She loved] fame, stardom.

"I knew that Saffie would love her pictures to be on, and to be spoken about on, TV,".