AT last, other people are voicing the need for a cinema in Widnes.

Pat Kinsley and myself have been trying to get this much-needed facility for years.

In January 1999 we collected more than 4,000 signatures but all to no avail.

There is talk about getting rid of the Queens Hall.

Is someone on the council determined not to allow the Widnes people to have any form of entertainment that a family can go to?

Runcorn has a cinema - that's no good to us, the bus times are inconvenient and if there was a hold-up on the bridge how would we get home?

Has no one got any thought for the young people of this town?

I don't wonder there are so many teenagers hanging around the streets.

The pub isn't any good to them; they have nothing in this town - no bowling alleys, youth clubs, or any other form of leisure. On the subject of Runcorn, they not only have the cinema in Halton Lea, there is also The Brindley and films being shown there.

Why can't the Queens Hall be used in the same way for the people of Widnes?

Why, considering Widnes once had seven cinemas and Runcorn had two, Runcorn still has two and we have none.

Come on Widnes speak up and tell these councillors what we want.

Mrs Muriel Whitfield, Widnes