Historic Ayrshire castle set to welcome back visitors as tourism sector reopens
All visitors, including members, will be required to pre-book tickets online.
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Dundonald Castle will reopen at the end of the month with online bookings available (Image: Chris Russell)
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A Swindon film producer believes the Covid pandemic will mean a rapid change in the industry for blockbuster films. Mark Kenna and Swindon-based studio Bad Blood Films launched their first feature-length movie, Sacrilege, in March last year. Since the release, the world has seen the coronavirus pandemic dominate the UK, leading to three national lockdowns and a Covid Tier system. One of the casualties of the pandemic has been the cinema industry. Swindon’s own cinema chains, Empire and Cineworld, closing in October and November with no re-opening date. Sacrilege launched on March 9 but even the red carpet premier was looking uncertain at the time.
Alan Dearling
Sam Wilkinson and myself have been orbital around the new Traveller festi-scene for many years. In more normal times, we used to cross paths at a variety of the smaller, more alternative festivals. Like some of the best things in life that we tend to take for granted, she’s just there…and the world is much the better for it.
Sam has continued to travel in Europe in a live-in vehicle during the whole period of the Covid pandemic lockdowns. I’ve not been travelling out of the UK and the last festival I worked at – was indoors in Stepney, London. That was ‘London Re-Mixed’ at the very beginning of March 2020. Since then, apart from one party night at the Golden Lion in Todmorden, alongside virtually all other promoters, venue owners, bands, performers, sound and site crews, photographers and writers – it’s been business-as-‘abnormal’! On-line events, zoom calls, recordings done on phones and in home studios, and interaction mostly via social media n
Burnham-On-Sea’s Ritz Cinema has been given the “lifeline” of a huge
arts grant to help it stay in business despite the ongoing closure caused by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
The British Film Institute has awarded £47,142 to Burnham’s Ritz Cinema from its culture recovery fund and safety grant fund.
The cinema in Burnham’s Victoria Street has been losing money after being forced to close for many months during 2020. It is currently shut while our area is in Tier 4 restrictions.
Talking to Burnham-On-Sea.com, owner Pat Scott,
pictured, says the money will allow it to continue showing films and re-open when restrictions are lifted.