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Article: On the write track.(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2004
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Byline: BRIAN McIVER
Few dramas have affected so many Scots so deeply as River City's Scarlett Adams illiteracy storyline. Recent figures from the Scottish Executive campaign The Big Plus, show that 800,000 Scottish adults a fifth of the population can't read or write to a competent level. The new government initiative hopes to end the stigma of illiteracy.
BRIAN McIVER spoke to three people who found the strength to reveal and overcome their secret struggle with wordsI kept hiding the truth and felt invisible
TRISHA CAREY
FOR almost 50 ...
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