'All I want to do is read to my children'

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Imagine if you couldn't read. You couldn't read a restaurant menu, details printed on your prescription or choosing options at a cash machine, let alone, read a book with your children. There are 5 million illiterate adults living in the UK. Earlier this year we reported that it's thought there are nearly 18,000 people of working age in the county who are unable to read. And for those of whom are parents, being asked to "read me a story" at night would fill them with dread, not the joy it would bring to many people. Sarah Todd from Shaftesbury is one of those people. She missed a lot of school due to illness and then as an adult, she didn't feel she could tell anyone that she found reading impossible.