Your Weekly Talking News Service for Ely and District

 
The Reading for the Ely Standard
of 6th August 2026
is now in the Podcasts Section

Welcome to Fenprobe

The Fenprobe Talking News service brings local news to blind and partially-sighted people across East Cambridgeshire, UK.

Each week a team of volunteers gets together to record the latest stories from the Ely Standard.  A Post Office concession ensures that the USB sticks with the news can be sent and returned throught the Post for free.  The service is entirely free of charge and all registered listeners receive a free USB player, shown here, (which can also be used for RNIB talking books).


We have over forty volunteers who regularly dedicate their time and the news recording is produced fifty weeks out of fifty-two, with a break at Christmas and New Year. 

                                                                                             
We are a registered charity (CFB 279355R) and a member of the Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom . The service benefits from the Post Office concession of free postage for blind people and other costs are met through grants and donations.

Please take a look round the site to find out more about Fenprobe and how you can use our service.

We provide our local news service in East Cambridgeshire and the neighbouring regions including Newmarket, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Soham, Stretham and, of course Ely, where we are based.

Opening our new Fenprobe Studio

Latest News


Notice of our AGM
Fenprobe's AGM will be held on Tuesday 14th April at 11.00. The venue is 32 The Chase, Ely, in the studio. All readers and listeners are warmly invited to attend. Please contact us if you need a lift to the venue.

19th February 2026


Our thanks to the local Freemasons of the St Audrey Lodge 2727, Ely, for raising £210 for Fenprobe. The photograph shows their charity Steward, John Reed,  presenting the cheque to one of the Fenprobe reading groups and some of our committee members. Generous donations such as these help us to buy new players and equipment for our growing number of listeners.