WELL done to the Evening Press, Hugh Bayley and John Redpath for organising and delivering the petition to try and keep the Odeon cinema open (March 12).

I am afraid to say that your efforts are completely futile.

By introducing parking charges in the evening the council has probably finished off the Odeon anyway.

Graham Hunt,

Farmanby Close,

Thornton-le-Dale,

Pickering.

Updated: 10:53 Wednesday, March 17, 2004