Even in death, glamour model Vivien Neves had not lost her power to raise a few eyebrows.

As mourners gathered to say goodbye to one of Britain's most famous models, they were left with one final reminder of Vivien's beaut.

In the pages of her funeral order of service was the picture with which she made history as the first model to appear naked in The Times.

Vivien's daughter, Kelly, 28, granddaughters Chloe, seven, and four-year-old Yasmin, along with former husband John Kelly, led the congregation of 60 mourners who turned out to pay their respects to the woman who died aged 55 following a 25-year battle against multiple sclerosis.

The congregation at the Downs crematorium in Brighton heard how Brighton-born Vivien had shot to fame, first as a bunny girl, then with Penthouse, before causing uproar promoting a chemical company in a 1971 advert in The Times.

They heard how she became "everyone's favourite model", helping to sell everything from Martini to peanuts.

Aside from her beauty, mourners were asked to remember Vivien for her fund-raising for multiple sclerosis research and her passion for animals, especially donkeys.

A dozen bouquets of white flowers lay outside the crematorium.

One was from the Daily Express and OK! magazine, signed by their owner, Richard Desmond.

As the service drew to an end, Vivien's daughter Kelly, who has inherited her mother's looks, sobbed quietly.

Devastated by national Press speculation that she had abandoned her mother in her last years, she clutched the hands of her own children as she said a final goodbye to the mother she described as "a wonderful, courageous woman".