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STN Volunteer News 11: March 2025
My name is Colin Eastwood, my real job is managing Yorkshire Coast Sight Support (YCSS), something I have done for 9 years. YCSS has supported STN for many years; the STN studio and dispatch office is on our top floor. Luckily for the listener, I don’t do any reading in my West Yorkshire accent, a…
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Scarborough 41 Club donates to Scarborough Talking News
On Wednesday, 6 March 2025, STN Chairman Mary Grunwell was delighted to receive a donation of £1,033 from Scarborough 41 Club. This sum was part of the amount raised in December at 41 Club’s Christmas Charity Evening, to be shared by local charities. Mary thanked 41 Club for their generosity and their welcome assistance to…
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STN Volunteer News 10: January 2025
Hello, my name is Martin Walker, also known as Mary Grunwell’s little brother! Having worked in Scarborough in the late 1980s, I made a decision to move back here, from Huddersfield, two and a half years ago, a decision I have not regretted. I now live in Cloughton where my house backs onto the village…
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STN Volunteer News 9: December 2024
My name is Valerie Bolton and I have lived in the Scarborough area for 22 years. Moving from Harwood Dale to Scalby in 2017 brought me into contact with various friends and groups so in 2018 I made a few inquiries about Talking News. It was received with a great deal of pleasure and I…
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STN Volunteer News 8: November 2024
Sometime after moving to Scarborough in 2005, I was visiting Scarborough Fair and met Mary Grunwell, totally unaware of the eventual consequences. She asked if I would be interested in becoming a reader for the Talking Newspaper. I had an elderly Aunt whose sight had deteriorated and I knew how much she enjoyed receiving her…
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STN Volunteer News 7: October 2024
Hello, I’m Chris Herbert, a reader for Talking News. I’ve been a reader for more years than I care to remember. A recorder by the name of Victor Doughty, who was doing some work with my husband, had heard me speak when I was ‘wearing one of my other hats’ and suggested reading for Talking…
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STN Volunteer News 6: September 2024
I am Martin Johnson and have been a member of the STN Team for 9 years. It was initially suggested by our now Chairman that I might enjoy becoming a Reader and I fell for it! Subsequently, when there was a need for a new Editor, I fell for it again! I have found the…
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STN Volunteer News 5: August 2024
It is only just over a year ago that I, amongst others, received the bombshell news that the previous group of Talking News Trustees planned to close the service to our wonderful Listeners because, as they said, we had little money, not enough volunteers and no one wanting to serve on the Committee. I spent…
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Fundraising Coffee Morning: Saturday, 7 September 2024
A Coffee Morning in support of Scarborough Talking News will be held at Scalby Methodist Church on Saturday, 7 September from 10am – 11.30am. There will be cake stall and book stall plus the novelty of model trains running throughout the morning. Admission by donation at the door. The address of the church is North Street,…
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STN Volunteer News 4: June 2004
I think the STN newsletter is a great way to keep members in touch with what is going on in the organisation. We need an afternoon tea somewhere so I can put names to faces. Mind you, I think I would still get muddled up! It was a year ago that Talking News was in…