Who are we?

For more than thirty years the Macclesfield & District Talking Newspaper For The Blind has produced a weekly cassette tape and more recently CD, of local
news and magazine items which is sent out to blind and visually impaired people who live in Macclesfield, Bollington, Poynton, Prestbury and surrounding districts or who have links with the area.


All our volunteers are unpaid and our work does not attract statutory funding of any kind. We rely on our own fund raising activities and the generosity of donors to fund our work and thank The Macclesfield Express , Cheshire Independent and various Parish magazines who allow us to use their stories.


The Macclesfield Talking Newspaper is sent out each week by post to our listeners who then return the cassettes or CD pouch to us ready for the next issue. The service is entirely FREE to our listeners and is delivered free courtesy of the Royal Mail.


We know that our work is appreciated by the number of messages we receive from our listeners who tell us that we help them to stay in-touch with their local community.


Thank You For Your Support

 

Last updated 15-12-2011

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The Week’s Main Stories

Bollington News

Poynton News

Prestbury News

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The Talking Newspaper’s weekly recorded tracks of:

        The Main Stories

        Bollington News

        Poynton News

        Prestbury News

can heard directly on the Manchester Evening News Website.  {Click here and then select the appropriate week}


An example of these recordings can be heard by clicking on the boxes below:

MERRY CHRISTMAS for 2011


At this time of year, the TN Team takes two weeks’ holiday to buy their Christmas turkeys and ice their Christmas cakes - and take a well-earned break, hopefully returning in the New Year thoroughly refreshed.


However, we are conscious of the need to provide our listeners with good listening material to fill the gap, and every year we try to come up with some topical entertainment for their enjoyment.


For Christmas and New Year 2011/2012 we have recorded a Christmas Special hosted by Colin Turner which includes opera singer Diedre Rogers, local historian Dorothy Bentley Smith singing a German carol, Roger
Molineux reading one of his poems, and the Editorial Team Choir directed by Pauline Davies and featuring Richard Stringer on clarinet. We have also written and performed two Christmas pantomimes with incredible sound effects courtesy of Recording Technician Forbes Furmage. Last but certainly not least we have Macclesfield Male Voice Choir’s Christmas Concert recorded live at Langley Methodist Church on 9th December. (We are most grateful to the MMVC for allowing us to do this.)


So, altogether, around 4 hours of festive entertainment for our listeners!


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone from all the TN team. We will be back with the local news on January 5th.