内容摘要：Known as 'the Rocket', in 2022 slalom specialist Ryding became the

Known as 'the Rocket', in 2022 slalom specialist Ryding became the

Tusk said that no-one is as keen as he was to end Poland's legal chaos, but he knows that president-elect Nawrocki will likely continue to use the veto.Cornwall's only literature festival for children is expecting 4,000 visitors this Friday and Saturday, organisers say.

The St Austell Festival of Children's Literature, held at locations around the town, was set up three years ago by the head teacher of Carclaze Community Primary School to improve pupils' literacy.It has now expanded to include schools from mid Cornwall, so students from Newquay, Liskeard and the clay villages can take part too.It started out with just 500 locals and schoolchildren turning up for events and workshops run by authors and illustrators, but the £1-per-talk event has proved popular and has grown as parents seek to engage their children with reading.

According to figures from research conducted in 2024, the National Literacy Trust reported children surveyed in the South West of England were among the least likely to read for pleasure.Just 35% did such reading, compared to 40% in places such as London; and only 16% said they wrote for pleasure for least 10 minutes daily.

A year-on-year decline in children's interest in picking up a book in their own time was something that worried Carclaze head teacher Simon Pollard, prompting him to set up the festival.

He said: "The current rates of choosing to read [are] dropping all the time. Parents are not necessarily knowing how to read to children."Go and get some more goals and impress the manager who is still new to the job."

Ex-England defender Lee Dixon added: "They will be getting pelters no doubt about that."When you are fourth [in the rankings] and they are 173rd you expect to beat them handsomely, but that wasn't the case."

Former Manchester City midfielder Michael Brown agreed the performance was poor, but the priority was to get the job done in the bid for qualification to next year's finals."It was a big disappointment but they did the job and won the game," he said on BBC Radio 5 Live.