FAMILY and friends will bid farewell to much-loved children's author Cathy MacPhail at her funeral on Monday September 13.

The service will take place at St Mary's RC Church in Greenock at 10am with committal thereafter at Greenock Crematorium.

Cathy passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Saturday August 28.

She was 75.

Tributes have poured in for the hugely popular writer, who won many awards in her career and always remained immensely proud of her Inverclyde roots.