The house in Milverton, Somerset, was once home to Thomas Cranmer, Arch Deacon of Taunton in the 16th Century.

“There is a 500-year-old translation of the Bible into English by John Wyclif, the radical and reformer. A forerunner of the Reformation, Wyclif’s translation of the Bible was designed to be accessible to ordinary people.”

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and predecessor Vladimir Putin among mourners at Moscow’s Donskoi monastery

“He was a leading Anglican scholar and strove for ecumenicalism.”

“I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn’t present the picture they would like.”

Blogger John Halton questions whether Google News has any legal defence

Even Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney didn’t know how to begin his translation of Sophocles. Then inspiration struck …