An 81-year-old retired church minister has made a 437-mile journey from Edinburgh to Westminster using only his bus pass and raise funds for Bible translation.
Revd Brian Ranford hopes to have raised thousands of pounds for Bible translation as a result of his eight-day trip, which ended yesterday. He lived in the remote Tuvalu Islands as a Bible translator in his twenties – so he hopes his efforts will raise as much as possible to fund Bible translation today.

‘You need the Bible in order to have a happy, peaceful world,’ says Mr Ranford. ‘The Bible is a witness to the God that people think that they can do without.’
His bus journey has taken in some of the destinations that The People’s Bible tour is visiting this summer, going from Carlisle, Durham, York and Lincoln onto Cambridge, Oxford, High Wycombe and finally Westminster.
En route, Mr Ranford read the book of Isaiah in digital on
his Kindle.