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RNIB Connect Radio (previously Insight Radio) is a British radio station that is part of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and was Europe's first radio station for blind and partially sighted listeners. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week online, on 101.0 FM in the Glasgow area and on Freeview channel 730. Live shows make up ...
Deafblind Awareness Week [16] [17] runs at the end of June to coincide with the birthday of Helen Keller. [18] In 2021, it fell on the week of 28 June - 4 July. [19] The week aims to make dual sensory loss a more widely known condition; educating people about what it is and letting them know what to look out for in themselves and others.
The UK government announces plans to give Ofcom more powers over the BBC's online content, including BBC News. [29] The UK government rejects calls from Welsh MPs to add the Six Nations Championship to the list of guaranteed free-to-air sporting events on British television. [30] 24: The 2024 Brit Award nominees are announced.
Catherine “Cat” Richards and Jake Singleton-Hill did not connect inside the Love Is Blind UK pods, but they did in the real world. “I am with someone from the pods. I’m with a guy with a ...
RNIB was first established on 16 October 1868 as the British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind. [7] [8] The first meeting, which was held at 33 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, involved founder Thomas Rhodes Armitage (a physician who was partially sighted) and Daniel Conolly, W W Fenn [a] and Dr James Gale [b] (all three of whom were blind). [8]
Love Is Blind UK is officially a huge deal and there is only one human in the world more obsessed with these people’s relationships than Us, and ... in fact, until a week before the reunion show ...
An 11-year-old girl who is blind and has a brain tumour said she had fulfilled her "dream" of presenting her own radio show. Betsy Griffin, from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, was diagnosed with the ...
In 2019, she became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter. [4] In 2021, she was named as a brand ambassador for Pantene. [5] In September 2022, she campaigned for accessibility in the entertainment industry, speaking out on the lack of audio description for television shows, films, and theatres, as well as inaccessible website design. [6]