Rotary coffee morning spells out success for Burnley, Pendle and Ribble Valley dictionary project

A local Rotarian hosted a coffee morning at her home to raise money and help schoolchildren with their reading.
The coffee morningThe coffee morning
The coffee morning

Kathy Watson raised more than £300 from the coffee morning for the annual dictionary project.

She said: "We provide dictionaries to every child in their final year of junior school to every school in Padiham, Hapton, Read, Newchurch and Roughlee.

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"We also encourage the children to take part in a competition outlining the benefits of a dictionary over a computer, the standards of the entries are outstanding although we do disqualify any entries with spelling errors."