A regional journalist who went on to found a religious news magazine has died aged 98.

War veteran Geoffrey Bould worked for the Yorkshire Post and later wrote for various titles including The Guardian.

His career in journalism began before the Second World War when he joined the Post in 1937, but was put on hold for more than four decades after he joined the war effort and later became a civil servant.

However he returned to journalism in 1982 and went on to found and edit a Christian magazine, Interfaith News.

Born in Leeds and raised in Blackpool, Geoffrey, pictured, enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 and served with the 7th Armoured Brigade — otherwise known as the Desert Rats — in North Africa, Burma and Italy.

In 1945 he returned to his parents’ home in Blackpool and joined the Ministry of Pensions, marrying his wife Kathleen in 1947.

The pair had two sons, Stephen and Martin, and Geoffrey’s work saw the family relocate to Watford in 1965.

In 1982, Geoffrey left the civil service at a time of government cutbacks and returned to journalism.

He produced articles and interviews about politics, poetry, religion, and his Yorkshire boyhood that were published in range of magazines and newspapers including The Guardian.

A Quaker, he was a co-founder of Interfaith News and edited the magazine from 1982 to 1989.

Kathleen died in 2009, and Geoffrey is survived by his two sons, as well as grandchildren Ellie and Harry.