PRAYERS will be said across churches in Wales tomorrow for the loved ones of the four victims who perished in the Gleision colliery disaster.

The deaths of four miners trapped in a flooded mine were tonight described as a “stab through the heart” of a community hoping they could be rescued alive.

POPE Benedict XVI made history yesterday by becoming the first pontiff to step foot inside Lambeth Palace.

A father who left his two daughters to die in a freezing blizzard wearing only nappies and T-shirts was sentenced to three years in prison.

A senior church figure in the UK has called for an “offensive” and “blasphemous” opera to be stopped, it emerged today.