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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Hello, Scarborough Talking News Volunteers! I’m Gill and I have been a Listener of Scarborough Talking News since 2017. In June 2023, I joined the Trustees’ Committee as Committee as the Listeners’ Representative. I’ve been busy since then offering feedback to the new Committee, attending a meeting and photo shoot to secure much needed funding…

Thank you to everyone who has fed back comments and suggestions about the Volunteer Newsletter. As Secretary of our Committee, I send the newsletter out so if there’s anything you want adding, just contact me. I attended my first formal meeting in June last year and left as Secretary – the moral of the story…