To display a scrolling tickertape with news headlines:




This has been tested on Windows and Linux (Raspian) but should also work on Apple. It's written for Python 3.
UPDATED Aug 2016 Sky URL changed to http://feeds.skynews.com/feeds/rss/home.xml
UPDATED March 2015 to run on Linux without needing to comment out lines. Tested on a Raspberry Pi 2 with Raspian.

The program seems to 'blink' occasionally. I'm not sure why this is. The program is not perfect but it is free!


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