Rev David Parry said the bells of St Mary and All Saints’ Church in Conwy were disturbing his sleep as they ring every 15 minutes.

The medieval church is right next to the vicar’s house and he worried that the chimes might put off tourists as well.

He wrote to Conwy Town Council about the noise and asked for them to be silenced between 00:15 and 6:15.

The town council conducted a survey of the 400 residents and of the 210 responses, only six said they agreed the bells should be silenced.

One resident told North Wales Live: “I’m glad common sense has prevailed, those clock chimes have been chiming since the 19th century and are part of the town’s fabric.

“They aren’t very loud, and I’m happy I’ll continue to hear them during the night if I’m awake as I find them comforting.”

Rev David Parry said to the local press: “I am grateful to the town council for considering this. Their decision not to silence the bells overnight won’t change my really positive relationship with them or the way we serve this lovely town together.”

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The US Vice President said the South Bend, Indiana mayor “knows better” than to criticise his faith, days after Buttigieg suggested in a speech that Pence may have a problem with him being gay.

“He said some things that are critical of my Christian faith and about me personally,” Pence told CNBC.

“And he knows better. He knows me.”

Pence served as governor of Indiana when Buttigieg came out as gay during his re-election campaign for mayor.

He argued Buttigieg was trying to rally the liberal left to his side in the hotly contended field for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Pete Buttigieg with his husband.

In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box ” that will air in the US on Thursday morning, Pence added: “But I get it.

“You know, it’s…19 people running for president on that side, in a party that’s sliding off to the left. And they’re all competing with one another for how much more liberal they are.”

Pence was responding to comments that Buttigieg made over the weekend during an event hosted by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a group trying to increase the number of LGBT candidates in American politics.

“I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand, that if you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is not with me,” Buttigieg said.

“Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”

The presidential hopeful has since taken to Twitter to write a post…

Executions across the world fell by 31 per cent last year as many countries decreased their use of the punishment, most notably in Iran where they stopped using the death penalty for drug-related crimes.

The latest statistics by Amnesty International do not include China after fears that they were altering their figures and also are suspected to be the biggest user of the punishment.

However, more than two thirds of countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

In response to the apparent decline globally, the lead Catholic bishop for international affairs, Bishop Declan Lang, has called on the UK to use its diplomatic and economic influence to promote the global abolition of the death penalty.

Bishop Declan said: “The continued decline in capital punishment gives us cause for hope that this attack on the inviolability and dignity of every human person may eventually be confined to history.

“Once again, I urge our government to redouble its efforts towards promoting global abolition of the death penalty. There are both diplomatic and economic means of driving forward this goal. For example the UK has trade offices in more than half of the twenty countries that executed their own citizens last year.”

“I hope that Catholics will continue to speak up on behalf of those at risk of execution and pray for all those affected.”

Last year…