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Liam Payne: Tributes to One Direction star across West Midlands

  • Tributes have been flooding in across the region for One Direction star Liam Payne, who has died aged 31.
  • Singer Beverley Knight said she had followed the success of her fellow Wolverhampton native and felt “immense pride that a young lad from my town had become a worldwide star, a member of one of the best-selling boybands of all time”.
  • Singer Cher Lloyd, from Malvern, has remembered competing on The X Factor in the same year as Payne and One Direction.
  • Football clubs West Bromwich Albion, who he supported, and Wolverhampton Wanderers have also released tributes to the singer

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