Sir, On my recent visit to Tenby, I noted with much regret that the old Royal Playhouse Cinema in White Lion Street at the end of Upper Frog Street is being demolished. A cinema is surely a requirement for family life, an occasion for the whole family to do something together on a winter's evening. In Dumfries, we have a small 69-seat municipal cinema with a modern digital projection system. Dumfries and Galloway Council runs this cinema, the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, in Dumfries town centre. On average, 130 titles are shown in the single screen, part-time cinema each year. The cinema is open in the evenings, Tuesday to Saturday, and there are occasional daytime screenings. My suggestion is that the Tenby council authorities open such a cinema; it does not require a particularly large room or expensive equipment. Obviously, such a cinema cannot cope with the crowds in Tenby on a wet August bank holiday (my grandparents used to have 1,000 visitors a day at Tenby museum on such days). It might then be prudent to suspend cinema operation during the peak holiday season. A small Tenby municipal cinema would be such a boon to families in Tenby and if Dumfries can do it, so can Tenby. Ken Carew,

Scotland.