Wymondham and Attleborough Talking Newspaper (WATN) is marking their 27th anniversary this month (April).

On Good Friday, 10 April 1998, the first edition of the audio news and information service for visually impaired people was recorded at the Abbey School Room in Wymondham. A monthly audio magazine was subsequently added to the output.

Initially, recordings were copied onto cassette tapes and distributed by post via the Royal Mail “Articles for the Blind” Freepost concession. Now a USB stick is used and listeners to the free service are supplied with a machine on which to play them. More than 1300 editions have been recorded to date.

For more information about the service and to listen to the recordings, visit the website www.watn.org.uk

WATN is particularly keen to recruit more news compilers. Contact Tony Vale for more details via tony@valemail.uk