New mayor who battled dyslexia to become South Ribble's first citizen

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For Chris Lomax, his rise to become South Ribble’s first citizen is one that seemed to amaze him even in the moment that it was happening.

He then turned the clock back to his school days to explain why the honour was one that he would never have expected to come his way. Revealing what he described as “tendencies” towards dyslexia and dyspraxia, he added that it was at the age of 17 that he began the lengthy process of teaching himself “to hold a pen and write legibly”.“[At school], I went straight to class five, set five – ‘GTTs’ [or] general twits and twerps, as it was known by classmates and teachers.

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