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June 25, 2008

Ian Rankin: literacy detective

Rankin has joined an investigative literacy commission in Scotland.

Speaking at the launch this morning, where members of the new commission met a class of eight-year-olds who have been working on literacy issues, Ian Rankin said that “being able to read is something that every child in Scotland should be able to enjoy. Reading gives choices and chances to young people as well as opening up new worlds of books.

“I will play my part in working as part of the commission and hope that its work might help Scotland produce even more successful writers than we already do.”

The Scottish Labour education spokeswoman Rhona Brankin was also present at the launch. She stated her party’s vision for Scotland to become “the first country in the world to become fully literate.

Awk, aye.

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