This Colchester Talking Newspaper web site has three separate pages for downloads. To get to those pages continue to the next paragraph on this page. When you access those download pages, a new page will open and this page will remain open in the background. When you click on the downloads as directed, Windows Media Player, or another MP3 media player if you have one, should open and the recording should start automatically.
To access the last four weekly newspapers click here.
To access the last two monthly magazine recordings click here,
and to access the most recent edition of the Courier, the newspaper of Colchester Borough Council click, here.
The most recent edition of all three publications are also available using the Sonata box available from the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF), for those who subscribe to that service. In due course these editions will also be available on the
RNIB, Daisy Player (no date for the start of this service is yet available).
The objective of the Colchester and District Talking Newspaper, a member of the Talking Newspaper Federation, is to provide visually impaired people with local, Colchester, news and information. This is recorded on a weekly basis and remains available on the internet for four weeks. Colchester TN also produces a monthly magazine which is distributed with the first weekly recording of each month and the Colchester Courier, which is published three times a year by Colchester Borough Council.
Access on the Internet to the recordings we produce is available at paragraph one, above, or on the named items on the sidebar of this page. Dependent on the speed of your computer and the media player you have it may take up to a minute for the recording to start playing.
The weekly news is recorded each week, on a Thursday evening, and despatched on audio cassette tape on Fridays for delivery by first class mail on Saturday mornings. It is normally accessible via this web site by Friday lunchtime.
The main distribution area for tapes is that area covered by the Colchester postcodes CO1 to CO7, with about 20 tapes sent to other areas of the county and the country where visually impaired people, usually people who have lived in the Colchester Area in the past, now live.
The newspaper mainly used for the weekly newstape is the The Daily Gazette, a newspaper produced in North-east Essex, the editor of which has given full copyright permission for its material to be used in this way.
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There are about 550 Talking Newspapers throughout the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. To receive a recording from any of these, contact us and we will put you in touch with the appropriate TN group.
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