A SCHOOLGIRL told her mum "I love you but so sorry" in a final text before falling to her death from a bridge, an inquest heard.

Eleven-year-old Ursula Keogh had been searching "suicide" on Instagram before her tragic death.

In a devastating statement to the inquest at Bradford Coroners Court, Ursula's dad David said how he had become concerned about his daughter's "addiction" to her phone.

Her mum, acclaimed author Nicky Harlow, added: "Her hormones were all over the place. She was spending more and more time in her bedroom.

"I'm not sure what had changed. I was advised that Ursula had been accessing suicide pages on Instagram."

She said her little girl had also started to cut herself.

The mum said she had tried to confiscate her daughter's phone, but that had generated tension between them.

She added in the statement to the inquest: "I have since thought about things she said. She felt like her friends were in a bubble of childhood and she was not.

"Ursula seemed older than her years, very deep and sensitive."

The inquest heard weeks earlier, the young girl had been walking across the bridge with her family and seemed "fascinated" by it.

She had also been struggling with low moods in the months before her death.

And just before schoolgirl Ursula fell to her death, she texted her mum, saying: "I love you but so sorry."

Ursula died from head injuries after being found near North Bridge in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on January 22 this year.

No one saw her fall but members of the public were alerted by her phone and handbag, near the bridge's edge, a police statement said.

Her body was found a mile downstream about three hours later.

However, Bradford Coroner's Court heard she was sent from "pillar to post" and was left feeling "fobbed off".

She had made two calls to GPs in November and December last year, but was not given a face to face appointment on either occasion.

The coroner Martin Fleming addressed Dr Steven Cleasby from Springhall Medical Practice in Halifax and said: "You're saying go to the school and the school is saying go to the GP.

"In that scenario people can fall through the net. We've got communication difficulties that need to be ironed out."

The coroner heard that the surgery had since changed its protocol and will now offer face to face appointments as soon as reports of a child self harming are received.

A post mortem found that she died from a head injury as a result of falling from a height.

Ten scars from self harming were found on her forearm.