Cinema support

Sir, I think the proposed cinema is a fabulous idea. For a huge number of reasons:

1 Keeps our community from being excluded from the real world.

2 Gives our kids a chance to feel that they are not ‘cut off’.

3 Gives tourists something to do on our frequent dreich days.

Personally I’ve never managed to get to the screen machine due to shift and work commitments.

My advice to these people to make this work successfully would be to work the screenings with the timing of the buses and alleviate unnecessary parking. After all the bus depot is next door. Just takes a genius IQ to work the timetables out.

I still do have concerns over parking but this is a very small island and whatever you do will always have an ‘anti’ due to parking etc, but we cannot get away that virtually every time you switch the TV on, Arran is on the box somewhere. Add to the mix that the people who have been here in the past invariably come back.

For all the natives and oldies who remember and who know them – and I have to say, I am one of them – you cannot stop progress, you can only bend it to suit the circumstances better.

Yours, Sandra Brown, Lamlash.