Police officers escorted the hearse to the church, and stood outside as the bell tolled.
The bell is tolled on receipt of important news such as a ship sinking.
While the motorcade was en route, the cathedral bells tolled 38 times in honor of the 38th president.
Sirens wailed and church bells tolled in the city, where several hundred Jews battled the Nazis in World War II.
"The government should think twice about its proposal to build a new tolled motorway between Birmingham and Manchester, " he added.
The bell tolled just over a year ago when wiretaps were first used to bring insider trading charges against Galleon Group.
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Bells tolled 53 times to honor each of the city's tornado victims.
Plans to construct a tolled bypass between Cambridge and Huntingdon and widen other parts of the A14 were unveiled by the government earlier this year.
The Union Flag which flies above the prison was lowered before churches in the town tolled their bells and staff left the prison for the final time.
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There are also bound to be traffic problems near the boundaries of the tolled area as car drivers skirt around its edge to avoid paying the fee.
According to its latest annual report, the Japan Highway Public Corporation manages 6, 851km (4, 280 miles) of tolled motorways, whose charges are among the most expensive in the world.
Power in Dharavi, a giant Mumbai slum, is now largely tolled, with meters nestling next to curing factories piled with goat skins and people melting down used plastic cutlery.
The bell may have tolled for the term when it was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2006, or maybe two years later when Mitt Romney uttered the word on the campaign trail.
Though her ambition always tolled in the background, she had come to respect him, for his unstudied fairness, his gaiety, his integrity and openness, which was as plain and light and valuable as a metal unknown in her world.
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