Whitney’s funeral to be streamed on web

Whitney Houston’s funeral is to be broadcast on the internet. Some of the star’s fans had been disappointed that the weekend service in the late singer’s hometown was going to be a private affair and that no public memorial was planned. But Ms...

Whitney Houston’s funeral is to be broadcast on the internet.

Some of the star’s fans had been disappointed that the weekend service in the late singer’s hometown was going to be a private affair and that no public memorial was planned. But Ms Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said The Associated Press would be allowed a camera at Saturday ’s ceremony in Newark, New Jersey.

The service will be at New Hope Baptist Church, where she sang as a child.

She will be buried in Fair View Cemetery in Westfield, where her father John was laid to rest in 2003.

Meanwhile, Ms Houston is expected to storm back into the UK charts this weekend with around 27 individual tracks due back into the top 200 singles.

And one of the two affected albums – Greatest Hits – has seen such a spike in sales that it is in line to go to number six when the charts are announced on Sunday.

AP will stream the service on http:// livestream.com/ aplive.

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