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Thank you to everyone who entered the Reading Force competition and shared scrapbooks with us. We have really enjoyed looking at them. It has been brilliant to see how families have joined Reading Force and taken part with gusto. Rest assured, all scrapbooks will be returned with a certificate, and of course some of you will receive a prize! The scrapbooks have made us laugh, moved us, brought tears to our eyes, displayed your creativity, and shown us just how resourceful Forces children and parents are. The various ways in which family book groups completed their scrapbooks has also been lovely [...]

  THE 2012 Reading Force project has been launched at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard with 35 children from Year 5 at Milton Park Primary School from Eastney in the city.Joining them was leading children’s author Sara Starbuck along with Rear Admiral John Lang, Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire; The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth Cllr Frank Jonas; Commodore Tony Radakin, Commander, Portsmouth Naval Base; Wing Commander Steve Beaumont, RAF; Colonel Celia Harvey, Deputy Commander, 145 (South) Brigade – the regional Army brigade, and Colonel David Cartwright, Directorate for Children and Young PeopleReading Force 2011 brought together Service families and friends in a [...]