WELL done to Mrs Platt (December 29, 'It's time to resurrect old theatre') for thinking along the same lines as my family and I.

Only the night before her letter was published, we were discussing the Odeon Cinema and how disgusting it looks - all boarded up in the centre of Bolton.

My father used to take me there many times a month and it was always busy, the Saturday Morning Club being my favourite.

Sometimes the decision to go would be a last minute one. No chance of that now, because they are all out of town.

How I would love to take my son to the cinema on speck - but it is impossible today. Kids are bored.

So come on, someone. Please lets make the Odeon back into a cinema - surely its a potential goldmine. We used to have the Odeon, Navada, and many swimming pools. Now - nothing.

S Dunn Neasden Grove Bolton