These are Bocholt's city reading queens and kings

Bocholt - Bocholt has new reading kings and queens! At last Friday's reading competition, five participants qualified for the regional competition.

The eight boys and girls are only ever allowed to read short passages from their favourite books. Nevertheless, the parents and siblings listen to the short stories, which are sometimes exciting, sometimes hilarious.

Sometimes it's about the strange, hairy and rather unappetising "Fing", who is to become the family's new pet, sometimes about the mysterious expedition of a white vixen and sometimes about an exciting bus journey with the school class.

Ten pupils from Bocholt's primary schools competed against each other in the city final. There should actually have been eleven participants, but one pupil had to cancel due to illness, said Melanie Tenhumberg, head of the city library. She moderated the entertaining evening.