Colchester and District Talking Newspaper

Colchester and District Talking Newspaper
www.colchestertn.org.uk
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone 01206 872275 (answering Machine)
E-mail info@colchestertn.org.uk

Weekly News Recordings

Monthly Magazines

The Courier - Quarterly

Speakers

Volunteers

History

Links to other Talking Newspaper organisations

The objective of the Colchester and District Talking Newspaper is to provide visually impaired people with the local news, recorded onto a medium that they can use and delivered to them on a weekly basis. In addition a monthly magazine is produced which is distributed with the first weekly recording of each month.

The 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. In due course it will also be accessible, via this web site, on the internet and by any other digital means that the listener chooses to use.

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 country where visually impaired people, usually people who have lived in the Colchester Area in the past, now live.

Once the recordings are digitised and placed on the internet, audible details of local news will become available world-wide thus complementing the coverage already delivered by the newspapers used to produce the talking newspapers.

The newspaper mainly used for the weekly newstape is the Colchester Gazette, which has given full copyright permission for its material to be used in this way.

There are about 550 Talking Newspapers throughout the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. To receive a tape from any of these, contact us and we will put you in touch with the appropriate TN group.

In addition to the weekly and monthly newstapes the Colchester TN records on behalf of Colchester Borough Council, the quarterly magazine, The Courier. Tapes of The Courier are distributed to those Colchester TN listeners who request them. The recording also forms the basis of the audio courier on line which available on The Courier web site, using an appropriate media player such as Windows Media Player or Real Player. The programmes for these specific media players can be downloaded, if needed, from the Councils web site using the above Courier link. The recordings of the courier, as they are sent out on tape to Colchester TN listeners, are also available from here or from the 'Courier' sidebar of this web-site.

Almost any national daily or weekly newspaper or national magazine title that you can find in a newsagents shop can be obtained, for a small annual subscription, from National Newspapers and Magazines. They can be contacted on 01473 866102 or on the internet at TNAUK

For further information please leave a message on our answering machine on 01206 872275 or e-mail us at info@colchestertn.org.uk. One of us will get back to you within a few days and hopefully be able to deal straight away with your question or request.

You can if you wish create an e-mail by clicking on the e-mail logo below (it may take a few seconds to open) and enter your Name, Address and phone number. It that presents a difficulty send your own e-mail to Colchester and District Talking Newspaper at, info@colchestertn.org.uk.