Solway Sound: Talking Newspaper for the Blind

Last updated: 03/11/2017

Description

Provides a free audio news service to visually impaired people in Dumfries and Galloway.  Recorded digitally and ditributed on USB every week througout the year, the 80-minute audio recording contains news and announcements from eight local newspapers:  Annandale herald, Annandale Observer, Dumfires Courier, Galloway News, Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press, Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser and the Wednesday and Friday editions of Dumfires and Galloway Standard.  Also produces a bi-monthly magazine edition with longer articles from the local papers and from Dumfries and Galloway Life and Our Wigtownshrie magazines.

Meets: 

Wednesdays:  10.00 - 11.30 am
Thursdays:  6.00 - 9.00 pm
Fridays:  8.00 - 9.00 am

 

Website

No website provided

Meeting Details

Days: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Venue

Northwest Resource Centre
Dumfries

Disabled Access: No

Contacts

Dr Fiona Power
Chairperson
38 High Street
Gatehouse of Fleet
CASTLE DOUGLAS
Kirkcubrightshire
DG7 2HP

Tel: 01557 801303 or 07790 590136
Email: fipower@btinternet.com

Mr Calum Fraser
Chief Technician
Tel: 01387 263238 or 078426 75380
Email: cafraser@yahoo.com