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In pictures: city celebrates Ozzy Osbourne

Chloe HughesBBC News, West Midlands
News imagePA Media A woman with dark brown hair and black eyeliner has tattoos on her arm. She is standing on a pavement and is holding a bunch of flowers with red roses, purple flowers and green leaves.PA Media
News imagePA Media Thousands of people line either side of a street behind metal barriers, holding up their phones. A police escort of six motorbikes drive in front of a line of black funeral cars. The front car has purple flowers on its roof.PA Media
Thousands of fans brought flowers to the Black Sabbath bridge on Broad Street.
People lined the streets, chanting, clapping and throwing flowers at the cortege.

Tens of thousands of people flocked to Ozzy Osbourne's home city on Wednesday, camping out for hours on Broad Street to get a glimpse of his cortege as it drove through Birmingham.

Some travelled from just down the road, others hundreds of miles, bringing with them floral tributes, balloons, and fond memories of the Prince of Darkness and Black Sabbath.

There were tears, tattoos, tributes and T-shirts - a city determined to give its working class hero the send-off he deserved.

Here are some of the best pictures from the day Birmingham said its final goodbye to Ozzy Osbourne.

News imagePA Media A picture from the front of the Black Sabbath bench, which has cutouts of the four black sabbath members on it. On and around the bench are thousands of bunches of flowers, cards, and photos of Ozzy Osbourne. There is a large purple bat balloon tied to a fence, as well as a black bat balloon, and a black heart balloon.PA Media
It was clear that the entire city and beyond saw Ozzy's death as an immeasurable loss

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