Announcing the development at a briefing in Brussels, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the “breakthrough” had been achieved after months of negotiations.

If EU leaders agree, talks on trade can go ahead.

The deal will see no ‘hard border’ in Ireland while EU citizens in the UK can go on living as before.

Speaking to Premier, Christian Labour MP Stephen Timms, who sits on the Brexit Select Committee welcomed the announcement.

“What’s happened today is that disaster has been averted and that is a good thing because if there had been a failure to agree and if we had to wait several more months to know what was going to happen in the transition period, that would have been genuinely disastrous,” he said. “But there is a lot more work to be done before anyone can say this exercise has proved successful.”

The bill for the UK to leave the EU is expected to be up to £39 billion.

Encouraging Christians to pray over the Brexit process, Timms said a good place to start was with Northern Ireland.

“[Pray] that the communities can come together and avoid the terrible conflicts of the past – that’s the specific thing. For continued peace and improving relations across the communities in Northern Ireland.

“Also for a frictionless trading arrangement for no impediments to prosperity in the UK and in the EU as a result of the longer term trading deal that’s still to be done.”

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The witness, who cannot be named, said he was aged six or seven when one of the nuns at Smyllum Park orphanage went “ballistic” as she physically assaulted him in the Sixties.

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry is hearing evidence from witnesses from the child care establishment run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul in Lanark.

Speaking at the inquiry, the witness said the attack left him bloody and with bruises for weeks.

He added: “I distinctly remember there was a boiler and it had a flame coming out of it, a flame thrower… she put my face really close to that.

“I can still remember my hair getting singed, my eyelashes and the smell of singeing stayed with us for quite a while after that.”

He said it wasn’t until he later saw the publicity surrounding one of television’s first lesbian kisses on the soap Brookside, that he realised why the nun had turned “so nasty”.

“She was obviously kissing another nun, that’s what I think,” he said.

Speaking about the impact of the assult, he went on to say in his witness statement: “It was terrible, it was horrendous, really bad.

“I felt threatened all the time, constantly on my toes, just always, always on guard.”

The inquiry, chaired by Lady Smith, continues.

The prayer, also known as Our Father, asks God to “lead us not into temptation”.

But the religious leader told Italian broadcasters he believed the wording should be altered to better reflect that it is not God who leads humans to sin.

He told channel TV2000: “It is not a good translation because it speaks of a God who induces temptation.”

He added: “I am the one who falls. It’s not him pushing me into temptation to then see how I have fallen.

“A father doesn’t do that, a father helps you to get up immediately. It’s Satan who leads us into temptation, that’s his department.”

The 80-year-old also highlighted that the Catholic Church in France had already adapted the prayer, and uses the phrase “do not let us fall into temptation” instead.

The Lord’s Prayer, which is memorised by millions of Christians across the world, appears in the Bible.

The church had previously replaced wine with juice to welcome recovering alcoholics.

It’s returning to wine as the vicar, Fr Paul Kish, seeks to follow Church of England canon law that says the drink used should be the “fermented juice of the grape”.

Fr Paul Kish was quoted by the Daily Telegraph as saying: “We can’t use grape juice.

“The point being at the Last Supper when Jesus says ‘do this in remembrance of me’ – we need to do the same.”

Wine was removed in 2013 under the previous vicar because of their close link with a Christian alcohol and drug rehabilitation charity, the Kenward Trust.

Fr Kish added: “It has taken a fair bit of time, careful questioning and discussion with the bishop.

“We are not making a decision, simply falling in line with what we should be doing.”

Those who do not wish to drink wine in Communion at St Peter and St Paul’s will be offered bread only.