The Lincolnshire Echo has been going back to school to encourage pupils to read.

Newspaper staff sat with the children for an hour a week to hear them read from newspapers, magazines and books, to boost reading in schools.

The Echo is just one of a large group of businesses which has joined in with the 12-week reading programme run by the Lincolnshire and Rutland education and business partnership.

Echo editor Mike Sassi said: “Reading is the most fundamental of skills and it is vital all children are given the opportunity to improve.”

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