Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has been reunited with his twin brother, mourners at his funeral in Oxfordshire, UK, have been told.

The 62-year-old singer died from kidney failure last month after fighting cancer and pneumonia and suffering from a serious bowel condition.

Hundreds of well-wishers lined the streets of Thame ahead of the service to see the coffin inside a horse-drawn hearse.

Onlookers watched as the white, glass-sided carriage - topped with red roses and pulled by four plumed, black Friesian horses - trundled through his adopted home town. The cortege was followed by Robin’s two Irish wolfhounds, Ollie and Missy, together with friends and family.

In keeping with his long musical career, the horses wore decorative black cloths emblazoned with a gold treble clef and were trailing a piper. It had been Robin’s wish to “say a final goodbye to fans and his home town of Thame”, according to his family.

Mourners wept as Robin’s ornate white coffin entered the church to the sound of the Bee Gees’ hit How Deep Is Your Love.

Barry Gibb and the vicar leading the service, the Reverend Alan Garratt, walked up the aisle ahead as a round of spontaneous applause broke out from well-wishers outside the church. Close relatives followed behind.

The service was followed by a burial in the churchyard, with a piper playing Bee Gees song Ellan Vannin. Mourners threw red roses into the grave.

Barry, the last of the four Gibb brothers, said in his eulogy that Maurice’s death in 2003 had hit Robin hard.

He told guests at St Mary’s Church, opposite the home Robin and wife Dwina had shared for nearly 20 years: “They were both beautiful. And now they’re together. They’re actually together. When you’re twins, you’re twins all your life. You go through every emotion. And they’re finally together.”