A COMMUNITY group in Selby has urged the council to consider letting them run a cinema in the town.

Last week, Selby District Council leader Mark Crane told The Press he wanted to see more entertainment opportunities in the town, including a cinema.

Eva Lambert is one of the volunteers who run the Selby Globe at the Town Hall every month, screening affordable films using a projector. She said the service had entertained more than 3,000 people since its first showing in 2009.

She said: “We are working incredibly hard to get on and we’ve just started doing outreach cinema, taking the screenings to other areas. We thought since buses are being cut back why not take the cinema to the people. We want to establish a community cinema that people don’t have to save up for, somewhere you know is safe for children and supervised, and there’s nowhere else in Selby to go like that.”

Coun Crane said he would be interested in hearing any plans the group had for a cinema.

He said: “I think it’s something we’d be interested in talking to them about, and if they wanted to speak to us we’d be happy to listen.”

Last summer, plans with entrepreneur Mike Petrouis for a new ice rink and cinema complex in the town fell through, but Coun Crane said he would approach the developers again to discuss plans for a new scheme.

Coun Crane said: “I will go to a number of cinema chains and operators, like we did five or six years ago, and put our case across now the economic situation has changed.”