LABOUR Party members and supporters were among those paying tribute to MP Jo Cox this morning, in a moving town centre service.

Joyce Watson, Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales, spoke about how Mrs Cox had been a "great humanitarian", touching the lives of all she met.

"I felt we had to remember what she represented," said Mrs Watson.

"Recently, I have sadly seen an attitude towards 'difference' escalate out of control, and messages on both sides - at times - have been damaging to politics and society.

"Jo didn't recognise difference, she celebrated it.

"She wanted people to see there was no 'me and you', no 'us and them'."

In light of the MP's murder on Thursday, Mrs Watson said people needed to "all speak up" against injustice, to be "fearless" as the Batley and Spen MP had been.

"We cannot let an assault on democracy go by without saying something.

"I hope we can remember we are part of a wider society that will carry on caring, and there will be no more 'us and them', that we will unite when people need us to unite, and care when people need us to care," she said.

But she said compassion was vital, while trying to spread a message of unity.

"Jo had compassion in bucketloads: for her children, and everyone whose life she touched," she said.

Mrs Cox, who was elected in May 2015, had been vocal in her support of remaining in the EU in the lead-up to this week's Referendum on Thursday, June 23.

The mother-of-two, who had worked for Oxfam before becoming an MP, was also a passionate champion for Syrian refugees.

Thomas Mair, the man accused of her murder, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning.

According to the Telegraph, when asked his name the 52-year-old said only: "My name is death to traitors freedom for Britain."

He has been remanded into custody for a bail hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, June 20.