Victims’ families, survivors and emergency services personnel who responded to the blaze on November 18th 1987, gathered at the north London Tube station at 11am.

They came together in the ticket hall where 31 people died and around 60 were injured when a fireball, thought to have been caused by a dropped match, engulfed the wooden escalator leading up from the Piccadilly Line.

London Fire Brigade’s Chaplain – the Reverend Deacon Ian Black – took the short service.

He told those gathered: “We pray for the injured and those bereaved by this tragedy.

“As we go our separate ways, we take with us the undying memories of those we loved and are no longer with us.”

London Underground managing director Mark Wild also paid tribute to the station staff, train drivers and emergency services who “were very brave”.

He added: “The really key thing out of King’s Cross is it instilled a safety culture in London Underground of continuously improving.

“Even though that risk has been eliminated, we’re always alert to future ones.”

Smoking was immediately banned on all parts of the Tube after the disaster, wooden escalators were replaced and Underground staff were trained in what to do in the event of a fire.

Mick Cash, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said the King’s Cross fire stands alongside the disaster at Grenfell Tower as a reminder that “safety and…

The sisters of Santa Ines in Seville, southern Spain, accepted the offer from a local charity to restore the instrument for free.

Abbess Blanca Cervantes defended the nun’s decision and told the ABC de Sevilla newspaper: “It hasn’t worked for 30 years, and we couldn’t afford the estimated cost of more than 150,000 euros (£135,000).

“We only make enough money from the sale of sweets to cover our bills and national insurance payments.”

Unbeknown to them, their actions could be considered a criminal offence.

The regional government of Andalusia fined the convent 170,000 euros for the “unauthorised” work on the organ.

It has, however, said it will let the charity finish the restoration work in time for Christmas.

The organ was built by 17th century Perez Valladolid before Andalusia’s Ministry of Culture listed it as an Item of cultural significance in 1983.

While the ministry insists it is simply applying the law, according to the BBC, it is willing to show mercy to the nuns by offering to cut the fine to102,000 euros if they settle and pay outside of court.

The Alqvimia Musicae Foundation that funded the restoration insists the nuns will not have to pay out of their own pockets, and is planning a charity lunch to raise money for the fine on Sunday.

Joy Everingham, 46, who serves at St Peter’s in Canterbury, spent decades secretly wearing women’s clothes before telling her wife what she had been doing.

Everingham told Kent Online: “We were sitting in bed and I said ‘I’ve got something to tell you’.

“I started crying and couldn’t breathe. It was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

“I thought she was going to leave me, or kick me out, but she said ‘I’ve got to think about this’.”

The minister said while her wife was prepared to help her explore her identity, she was “adamant that if I transitioned to a woman she wouldn’t stick around’.”

The couple donated all of Everingham’s female clothes to charity in 2002 after the birth of their second son but not being able to live as a women sent her into a spiral of depression.

After being diagnosed with gender dysphoria, she explained: “Sometimes I felt like God had cursed me, but I had to trust in a god that loves me, whatever I am.”

While training to become a minister, the couple decided to tell their sons and church that Everingham planned to transition, before becoming ordained last summer.

It is the first time a transgender person has been appointed as a minister in the church with the church’s knowledge.

The mother-of-two from Canterbury, Kent, says she first knew she was different aged just five, and ‘didn’t fit in with everyone else’.

She told the Times: “I wasn’t like the boys, I was always more like the girls.

She began living as a woman full-time…

Members of the First United Methodist Church in Tellico Plains, were talking about recent shootings at places of worship when the 81-year-old pulled out a .380-calibre ruger handgun to show another parishioner.

Police said he removed the magazine, cleared the chamber, and showed the gun, before putting the magazine back in and returning the gun to its holster.

However, he forgot the gun was loaded and when someone from the Thursday afternoon Bible-study group asked if they could see it, he brought it out saying it was not loaded and pulled the trigger.

The bullet sliced the man’s palm before it entered the left side of his 80-year-old wife’s abdomen and exited the right side, as she was sitting in her wheelchair.

The couple were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A parishioner who only wished to give her first name, Mistin, told the BBC the injured man is a lifelong gun-owner who practises every week.

But she claimed he’s been so traumatised by the incident that he plans to get rid of his weapons.

Speaking about the couple, Mistin said: “They’re just true servants of the Lord, they’re such a delight.

“We thank God. I don’t know how God’s using this but we put it in His hands.”

The six stamps include an image of the royal couple on their honeymoon in the grounds of Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, looking at photographs of their wedding and one of the royal couple walking down the aisle of Westminster Abbey after their wedding service on November 20 1947.

Two stamps mark their engagement announcement in July 1947, showing the couple at Buckingham Palace.

Royal Mail spokesman Philip Parker said: “A platinum wedding anniversary is rare, and for the Royal Family it is unique.

“We are delighted to issue these six stamps to mark Her Majesty’s and the Duke of Edinburgh’s 70 years of marriage.”