Five Basingstoke Bison ice hockey players got down to their favourite pastime - reading - after a recent training session to help promote the BBC RaW Reading & Writing campaign. Netminder Curtis Cruickshank chose the net as a suitable place to read, while his namesake enforcer Brad unsurprisingly decided the familiar surroundings of the penalty box was a good place to tuck himself away with a book. Greg Owen used the boards to lean against for his spot of reading, Eric Braff the treatment table, while Steve Thornton simply lay down on the ice to read his favourite magazine, Powerplay.

The Club is fully behind the campaign to encourage adults, especially parents, back to the joy of reading and will be helping to promote RaW at the home match at the Arena on March 8th when fans will have the opportunity to have a go at various writing challenges including match report writing, tabloid style headline writing and an ice hockey action picture caption challenge.

"We're fully behind what RaW is trying to do and delighted too to be working more closely with BBC Radio Berkshire" says Club official, Paul Baldwin. "It fits in well too with what the Club is trying to do with the local community and with our work with schoolchildren and their parents".

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