Talking newspaper is 45 years old and still going strong

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Talking newspaper is 45 years old and still going strong

Sound Around Ards marks major milestone SOUND Around Ards, the Talking Newspapers for the Ards peninsula area, has been celebrating its 45th anniversary. In January 1980 a group of men from Newtownards Lions recorded the first ever edition of Sound Around Ards (SAA) Talking Newspaper, a synopsis of news stories from the Newtownards Chronicle, onto tapes and distributed them to people who could no longer read the publications. Forty-five years la…