Your Weekly Talking News Service for Ely and District

 
The Reading for the Ely Standard of
10th April 2025
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-one weeks out of fifty-two, with a break at Christmas. 

                                                                                             
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

No recording 17th April
Fenprobe is not recording over the Easter Holiday. Your next chance to hear the news from the Ely Standard will be after 24th April.

Fenprobe Treasurer retires
April saw the 47th AGM of Fenprobe and was the opportunity to say a heartfelt "thank you" to retiring Treasurer Ron Moore who has served us diligently and well for 33 of those years. The role of Treasurer has been handed on into the capable hands of Ron's daughter Julie.