World Braille Day celebrated

Local blind man, Mike Howell, transcribed the New Testament Bible into braille in celebration of World Braille Day (January 4).

Howell, who has a sight loss condition called Retinal Aplasia, took on the project to transcribe all 27 books using his Orbit Reader device to edit and create texts.

He commented: 'Transcribing the New Testament was a vast pleasure and a vast challenge at the same time. I gathered together as many versions of the Bible in braille as I could get my hands on and also some in audio book and studied them very fastidiously. I find braille doesn’t have many limitations.'