Keynsham & District Talking Newspaper

Did you enjoy reading but now experience difficulty due to poor eyesight or blindness? The KTN service is free to people who are unable to read newsprint.

Enjoy our local news and magazine section with topics from historic places, local personalities to recipes and information on changes in national benefits and entitlements.

Local news and listeners come from Keynsham, Bristol & Bath and surrounding villages and the service is open to anyone based anywhere in the UK.

KTN Chairman, Mike Crane, says, “We are pleased to say we have been able to continue our weekly service throughout Covid, albeit with many tweaks and changes behind the scenes.

“We would like to thank our listeners for their lovely messages of support, we are so glad that our mix of local news and magazine items continues to be of interest.

“The story most commented on recently is the piece from one of our volunteers, Peter Cleave, who wrote a short history of Bristol Zoo, with highlights such as Rosie the elephant, a star of the 1950s; Alfred the gorilla; and Johnny Morris, a keeper at Bristol Zoo and star of the TV programme ‘Animal Magic’.

“Our volunteers have adapted to many changes to accommodate lockdown and social distancing and we are very grateful to their ongoing enthusiasm and commitment.”

KTN service is a free weekly audio magazine on memory stick, sent through the post weekly via yellow wallets using the Royal Mail’s Articles for the Blind scheme which gives free 1st class delivery to items for blind or visually impaired people.

New listeners are welcomed. If they do not have the means to play memory sticks, we can supply an easy-to-use box to play them on. Contact: 0117 299 3021. Website: http://www.ktn.org.uk