Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially Sighted

24/06/2025

24/06/2025

I recently interviewed someone who I class as one of my oldest and most valued friends - his name is Doug Ashmore and he’s been synonymous with our Talking Newspaper as a reader for 30 years since 1995.

13/06/2025

If you know of anyone who is BLIND or PARTIALLY SIGHTED then please read on.
The Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper currently has 140 listeners plus 30 who listen to their broadcasts on ALEXA and 160 on our LETN Website = 330 folk who listen to our Talking Newspaper. This Talking Newspaper understands something of the frustrations and limitations caused by sight impairment/sight loss, and every three weeks, send a pouch containing a memory stick with many hours of news, articles, stories, poems and magazines to their listeners.
An easy to use Memory Stick Player is supplied completely FREE of CHARGE to all listeners and even the Royal Mail pay the cost of posting the Pouches containing the memory sticks.
So, if you know of anyone who would benefit from this FREE SERVICE, please either send a message here on Facebook, or phone Martin Sykes on 07970 914930 or visit their website www.longeatontn.org.uk to make contact, where you will also find and listen to the current edition of this Talking Newspaper.
You can also hear them on ALEXA. To access ALEXA, simply enable the Talking Newspaper skill. Once done, say, “Alexa open Talking Newspaper,” and when prompted say “Long Eaton.”
This current edition contains 91 Articles& Magazines, which is 40 hours of listening pleasure including articles from:

1. Robert Lindsay shares chapter 4 of his audio autobiography.
2. Martin interviews Nancy Plummer of the Erewash VIP’s (Visually Impaired club) – I posted this on Facebook, and to date there have been 500 views.
3. Jane Oseman and Stephanie Smith share stories from Derbyshire Life
4. Anne Payne introduces “Off the Record” singing “Scarborough Fair”.
5. Four pupils from Redhill Primary School share stories they’ve written.
6. The Just Write Creative Writing Group from the Elephant Rooms in Draycott.
7. Angela Baileys Quizzical Quiz
8. Ian Greatorex shares the thoughts about Potholes.
9. Helen Yorke shares Vitoria Woods monologues.

So, again, if you know of anybody who would enjoy listening to the Long Eaton & District Talking Newspaper for the Blind & Partially Sighted (LETN) Audio – Window on the World, please send a message here on Facebook, or phone Martin Sykes on 07970 914930 or visit their website www.longeatontn.org.uk or use your ALEXA.
The LETN covers a geographical area from Ashbourne, Wirksworth & Eastwood in the north, to Castle Donington in the south, Beeston in the east to Borrowash in the west.

10/06/2025

Probably the best Sight Support day I’ve exhibited at.
4 new listeners in 2 hours, plus Jan Glenn from Long Eaton Library Home Visits rang with a new listener, plus 3 new listeners from Erewash VIP’s makes 8 new listener's in a week.
All reflects our passion to reach out to as many blind & sight impaired folk as we can.
We now have 140 listeners plus the 30 folk who listen to us on ALEXA and the 30 who listen on our website.

10/06/2025

Sharing some statistics from our new friend Dave about using white canes. It's surprising really.

01/06/2025

Our wonderful Martin telling you all about what we do and who we are.

31/05/2025

Musk says the implant will initially provide blind individuals with low-resolution sight with the potential for superhuman vision in the future.

29/05/2025

A woman who is losing her eyesight has climbed three mountains to encourage others to "make every minute count".

Dawn Blezard says she wants to encourage others to "make every minute count".

27/05/2025

An animal sanctuary has given a permanent home to a visually impaired horse.

Smokey the 22-year-old stallion is taken in by experts at an animal sanctuary.

25/05/2025

An amateur theatre group for people who are visually impaired has a new production set in a fictional local radio station.

The High Spirits company's new play is centred around life at Radio Bardwell during the 1970s.