The four girls were all pupils at Glyncoed Comprehensive School

Earlier on Tuesday, a service was held for Danielle Caswell and Louise Jones.

Later, during a service for Katie Roberts and Kayleigh Parry, the Reverend Jackie Carter continued her tribute to the "inseparable friends".

Katie as a child was always full of life and loved life to the full, always smiling, singing and dancing.

The neighbours used to smile as they watched her standing before the mirror using a brush for a microphone.

One of Katie's hobbies was collecting sheep in all shapes and sizes and every time in the future her friends see a sheep, they will remember Katie with a smile.

But her main love was dancing and singing.

There was one time when Katie broke her arm skating but that did not stop her and, although it was still in plaster, she continued to dance in one of the shows with her arm in a pink plaster cast.

Katie's main love was dancing and singing

Katie was admired by her young cousins who thought she was beautiful and she would never leave the house unless she was immaculately dressed and she loved shoes as she had a pair for every outfit.

Sian would often ask her if she was going to stay in, but Katie would always say 'no mam, I'm going out with friends' who she loved to be with.

When asked where she was going, she would always say 'just out' but then would add 'got any money?'

Katie never worried about anything. She always enjoyed life, loved birthdays and Christmas, loved spending time with Hayley and the family and loved laying out in the sun.

On one family outing to Weymouth, when flying a kite, she hit Steve on the head, nearly knocking him out. They laughed so much that Hayley had to run to the toilet.

We will hear later of the bond between the two sisters.

Kayleigh and Katie were firm friends from primary school and were so close that they were often referred to as 'Kayleigh/Katie' The Reverend Jackie Carter

Sian and Steve have asked that I mention Nikki, who Katie had been seeing for over a year, and although they thought he was too old for her, it never kept them apart because they loved each other and now they feel very close to him.

Kayleigh and Katie were firm friends from primary school and were so close that they were often referred to as 'Kayleigh/Katie' and although they often argued, they had a strong friendship.

Kayleigh from a very young age didn't like walking on the grass or touching cotton wool, hated needles and spiders and was the sort of child and young person that loved rainy days and when the sun was shining was content to stay in and listen to her music.

When she was young, like most young girls, she attended a dancing school and loved dancing in shows. She was also a member of the Diversions Dance Company.

She always loved music and her music could always be heard loudly playing in her bedroom, but she often had to turn it down because their neighbour worked nights.

When Dane was born, she was very protective towards him and Jane and Jason remembered how they often argued in the same way that brothers and sisters do, but despite that they were always very close. Whenever she got together with Dane and Kelsey, her other sister, they always got on very well.

Kayleigh had ambitions to become a French teacher

Kayleigh loved school and would not stay away even if she was ill. She loved French and wanted to be a French teacher and was due to re-sit her French exam because she needed one mark to increase her grade.

She was very ambitious. Her main ambition was to go to university and live in a big city.

Kayleigh was always very sociable even at an early age and when just seven, would easily make friends, especially while on holiday, always ending up with a number of pen pals and lots of friends.

Both Katie and Kayleigh came from very close, loving, caring families, were simply teenagers, loved and admired by all who came into contact with them.

As I said earlier, I cannot do justice to either Katie or Kayleigh in such a short time, only briefly touching their lives.

It is the young people they knew and loved who so lovingly placed flowers at the school gates, and the website dedicated to the girls.

But I can draw us all back to the picture in the tapestry, showing four young friends all unique, different in many ways but similar in others and as each of us over the next days, weeks, months and years will remember Katie, Kayleigh, Danielle and Louise, all of our memories will be individual and personal and our lives will be richer for having known them, to be able to say that we knew them, touched them, laughed with them, we saw pictures of them, touched the flowers left on the school gate.