Dreams of a cinema (From Stroud News and Journal)

Dreams of a cinema

FED up with waiting for a multiplex cinema to arrive in Stroud, film enthusiast Edward Tierney is looking to set up a community picturehouse in the town instead.

Mr Tierney, a freelance photographer told the News & Journal he has a passion for film and would like to get together with like-minded people to look at ways to get a small cinema opened in the town centre.

"I'm a huge film fan and I love working with the public," he said. "I'm just interested in getting it moving."

At the moment Mr Tierney lives in Worthing, Sussex.

But he said: "My parents live in Stroud and it's a really nice town. I would like to move here too.

"At the moment Stroud's trapped between the big cinemas in Gloucester and Bristol and people have to travel to one of those to watch a film.

"That seems absolutely ludicrous to me.

"What I would love to do is run it as a community cinema."

For more on this story and much more Five Valleys news, see this week's SNJ