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A CHARITY that helps adults from Chard and the surrounding area learn to read is hopeful a new BBC documentary will raise awareness of its work.

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Speaking to Womans Hour, Sarah Todd, a mother-of-three from Shaftesbury, says she hid her illiteracy as a teenager by being the cheeky, sarcastic kid at school.

The Repair Shop star Jay Blades is learning to read at the age of 51 after leaving school without the skills.

LIKE millions of dads in the pandemic, TV star Jay Blades sat down to read his child a bedtime story over Zoom.But the book was for toddlers, not a 15

LIKE millions of dads in the pandemic, TV star Jay Blades sat down to read his child a bedtime story over Zoom.But the book was for toddlers, not a 15

A local literacy charity has won a grant to help them improve reading skills in the area.

A local literacy charity has won a grant to help them improve reading skills in the area.

Book Relief UK, which was started by the late Barry Evetts in Appledore to fund literacy projects here in the UK and abroad, is 15 years old this month.

Here are the letters that have been sent to the Wisbech Standard and Cambs Times newspapers this week.