Our website features an audio player for some of our posts. To play the audio, please follow your screen reader instructions to click the audio Play button link, you may be able to pause and re-start the audio by pressing the space bar.
To listen to our welcome message click the following Play button
Transcript
The Epsom and Ewell Talking Newspaper is a charity producing a weekly sound recording of news and other items primarily for blind and partially sighted people.
Please explore our site to find out more about what we do.
Recordings are currently fortnightly.
Find out more about how you, or someone you know, can receive the EETN
In this week’s Epsom and Ewell Talking Newspaper short local news section we have planning news, cuts to timetables, health and safety and more. We begin with a notice from local MP Chris Grayling about how to arrange online 15 minute, one to one surgery, where appropriate.
We have news that Reigate and Banstead Borough Council have rejected a planning application for a mobile phone mast at Tattenham Court and will be expanding parking near shops in Nork.
We also have planning news that Mole Valley District Council proposes new developements for nearly 500 new houses and 6 traveller pitches in Ashtead village.
We have health news that a new Group Executive team of nine took up their new roles on the 10th January for both Epsom and St Hellier NHS Trust and St George’s NHS Trust, which are now operating as a group.
We have a safety request from The Jockey club newsletter, to users of the Downs to ask them to avoid visiting until after noon Monday to Saturday and 9.30am on Sundays, with a reminder that dogs should be kept on leads at all times and cyclists must keep to the paths. The request is on safety grounds as the land is used for racehorse training prior to these times.
We have news that local train services are going to be reduced further from the 17th January with a new consolidated timetable from South Western Railway and South Eastern also reducing train services by 7%.
Please listen to this week’s audio local news for details of these and other stories, including a story of 100 year old Ivy Richmond’s fundraising, who featured in a previous edition of the EETN. Please do remember to share with anyone you know who is blind, visually impaired or has trouble holding a newspaper. Thank you!
Audio News
To listen to this week’s audio news click the Play button
Contact Information for this week’s news stories
To book an appointment for an online surgery with MP Chris Grayling call 01372 271036
The Epsom and Ewell Talking Newspaper would like to wish a Happy New Year to all our listeners, volunteers and visitors to our website and social media. We hope to continue to bring you interesting news and stories with community information and national updates for our listeners and visitors.
In our last audio news for 2021 we finish the year with good news stories and our usual local coverage extends to a wider area, even into the Surrey Hills. Looking forward to 2022 we have details of a consultation on extending an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and we have the Police and Crime Plan from Police Crime Commissioner Lisa Townsend.
We have the good news that a grant has been awarded by South Western Railway‘s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF) the successful bid by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council will provide funding to improve routes to and from the train stations and to improve safety. Listen to this episode to find out more.
In more good news, we learn that a new Mobile Scanner is now available for use by the two NHS Trusts: Croydon and Epsom and St Hellier, for use by local hospitals across South West London.
We have a story about how Kingston resident and artist Lyndsay Russell used water from the river Thames Houseboat as inspiration for her art. Lyndsay created The Water Alchemy series by playing with different inks and salts, calling it Aqua Nebulae.
Natural England are conducting a public consultation, you may wish to contribute to, with the news that the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) boundaries could be extended to the North and East. They are asking the public to submit photographs of their favourite spots for consideration to add to these areas. A decision will be made in 2023 by Natural England.
Working with Surrey communities so that they feel safe
Strengthening relationships between Surrey Police and Surrey residents
Ensuring safer Surrey roads
Please listen to this week’s audio local news for details of these and other stories, including the story about a gold medalist opening the first Aldi store in Cheam, a Wimbledon resident receives her 6th Birthday card from the Queen and our regular nature notes. Please do remember to share our details with anyone you know who is blind, visually impaired or has trouble holding a newspaper. Thank you!
Audio News
To listen to this week’s audio news click the Play button
If you have any local stories or information that you think will be of interest to our listeners please email us admin@eetn.org.uk
a:2:{s:4:"text";s:0:"";s:4:"show";i:0;}
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please click on the Accept all button to remove this message
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
a:2:{s:4:"text";s:9:"Marketing";s:4:"show";i:1;}
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
