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Games to blame for illiteracy, says The Sun

English children's reading skills have slipped from third to fifteenth in the world, according to a new study – and it's all the games industry's fault, says The Sun. "Kids hooked on computer games have sent England plummeting down world league tables for reading," begins the story. "Ministers claimed pupils spend so much time on consoles that they are not burying their noses in books," it continues.
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