In another blow to the already rundown centre of Dumfries comes the news that the Odeon cinema in Shakespeare Street is to close its doors in June with the loss of around 12 jobs. There has been a cinema there for decades and
I remember it as the Regal in the days when the town had another two picture houses - the Lyceum and the Electric Theatre (now the Theatre Royal). The Electric was nicknamed '' the auld scratch '' or the '' bug hut ''.