DYSLEXIC Sharon Adams has been hailed a supermum after gaining an Open University degree while raising three teenagers and holding down a receptionist job.

Mrs Adams, 43, of Gordon Road, Enfield, started her BA Honours course in European history and humanities in 1991 when her children were aged seven, 11 and 13.

She said: Apart from all the usual commitments an Open University student has with the running of familes and working, I am also a dyslexic, which makes the success all the sweeter.

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