Bradford Odeon, which has also been known as The New Victoria cinema and the Gaumont, which is the last of the 1930's Art Deco supercinemas is currently scheduled for demolition.

When it was built in 1930 it was the largest cinema outside of London, seating just over 3100 people, and included a restaurant and a ballroom.

The proposed demolition ignores the fact that a great many people in Bradford (and elsewhere as well) don't want it to be demolished.

Restoring it to how it was in the 1930's is unlikely to be practical. There have been suggestions of turning it into a concert venue or an indoor market. The argument against those was mainly the fact that there is no room for parking - which totally ignores the fact that there is a massive, several floors tall NCP car park on the opposite site of the road from it.


However a new idea to save it has been proposed and this one has the potential to gain a lot more support.

The John Peel Arts Centre. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-18032434


People have started a petition for this to happen. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/john-peel-north/



About the Odeon http://www.kingsdr.demon.co.uk/cinemas/newvic.htm

News articles: http://www.cityoffilm.co.uk/city-of-film-news/david-hockney-slams-odeon-demolition/

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/bradford-odeon-proposal-to-turn-it-into-the-john-peel-centre-for-creative-arts-north.293238/

http://louderthanwar.com/bradford-odeon-can-we-have-our-happy-ending-now-please/

I'v been thinking about Last Author Standing voting systems, and what the alternatives might be for the usual 'one postive, one and or more negative' voting systems.

( This what I've come up with so far. )

Title: Different Kinds of Darkness
Rating: pg13
Characters: Jack, Owen, Gwen, Tosh and Ianto (Gen case fic)
Word Count: 400.
Warnings: Non graphic death of an unnamed OC.
Summary: Sometimes they can't save anyone.

A/N Since I'm running torchwood_las I can't take part, but I thought I'd have a go at writing a fic for the prompts after each round has finished. This was for the round one prompts of 'Darkness' and 'Music.'

( At least he was the last. )

I know there are a few people on my f-list with an interest in the Highlander TV series, so I thought I'd let you know that there's a fest type comm that's just opened up for it. (I found out it rather strangely by reading the comments to an icon post for Primeval icons.)

Highlander Chronicles http://hl-chronicles.livejournal.com/

Basically it's because the series is 20 years old this October.

Rules for the fest are here, and sign ups are open until 3rd June, with posting as and when you've finished at any time from 3rd August to 3rd October (the 20th anniversary of the TV series)

Title: Words We Take With Us
Rating: G
Characters: Gene Hunt
Fandom: Life on Mars (UK version)
Written for the Life On Mars drabble post here http://lifein1973.livejournal.com/2273542.html Which has a use one of the given quote theme this week. The quote I chose makes up the first line of the drabble.


"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you."

The words have stuck with Gene for years and have helped shape him into the man he’s become.

Part of him thinks it would have been good had it been his father or some old copper who’d given him the advice when he’d first joined the force. The other part, the one that knows it came from a cowboy film he’d seen at the picture house on Lemon Street, thinks stop being such a pansy.

With three hours of voting left we're currently running a three way tie over at torchwood_las

The stories, 7 of 400 words or less, are here: http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/2475.html#cutid1

Voting for the story is here: http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/2636.html

As most of my f-list probably know I'm running torchwood_las a Torchwood based last author standing challenge.

The stories, 7 stories of 400 words or less, for round one, challenge one are now up here: http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/2475.html#cutid1

Voting for the story is here: http://torchwood-las.livejournal.com/2636.html

I've just checked the word counts for what I've posted fic wise this year and the total now stands at 52,340.

So with any luck I'm on target to get the 150k posted by the end of the year I set myself.

Title: A Song as Old as Time (16 of 16) Complete.
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, original alien characters.
Word count: this part 3800 of total 38,750.
Rating: PG13
Warnings/Contains: Temporary Jack death. Alien original character death. Empath!Ianto.
Notes: This is set during the first series between Countrycide, and They Keep Killing Suzie. Ianto living in the Radyr area of Cardiff comes from the tie in novel Another Life by Peter Anghelides.

This story has been a long time in the making. I started writing and posting it back in 2007 before the second series aired, it was put on hold for a long time from 2009 until 2012. So apologies to anyone who has been reading this from the start for taking so very long to get to the end of this.

Summary: A chance visit to a bar and the unexpected arrival of an old acquaintance raises a lot questions for Jack and creates a dangerous situation for Ianto.

part one part two part three part four part five part six part seven part eight
part nine part ten part eleven part twelve part thirteen part fourteen part fifteen

A PDF version is available here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0By1ipi-pyHy5NDdYSjJ5dkxpc2s

(  “Hey, you made it,” )

Sorry to break the posting schedule, the final part of Song as Old as Time will be up tomorrow instead of tonight. It's nearly done, just a few of bits of dialogue I've got sort out, but the characters are refusing to cooperate and it's nearly midnight, so I'm going to do it tomorrow. 

I've seen this in a few places, so here goes.

I have a list of 15 characters. Please propose scenarios in the style of: "1 and 5 bake bread together. Does the kitchen survive?"

or

"3, 7, and 9 wake up married. Does the universe survive? What does 10 think?"

Characters on my list are from Torchwood, Doctor Who, Primeval, Sherlock, Being Human and Spooks: Code 9. 

I posted a couple of days ago about the new style Scrapbook that Livejournal is introducing.

Well mine is migrated over the new style now.

So a few things I can tell you about the new style.

Everything is in the album that it was previously in. (Although if I'd uploaded the picture to more than one album it only appears now in the first one it imported to.)

No pictures have been lost in the import.

Tags aren't carried over and there's no way of tagging at present.

Public, friends only and private viewing settings for images are still functioning.

Uploading multiple pictures from your computer is much easier.

Files now have a proper file extention at the end of them like .jpg or .png

All the places I've posted the picures still have working, viewable images.

If you want to see that the new style looks like it's here http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/
http://the-silver-sun.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/

There's only no preview pictures on the front of the albums because I've not set them yet.


All in all not too bad. I'll have to move some of the images from one album to another (but that's mainly because I'd uploaded them to the wrong one in the first place and should have moved them ages ago.). I would have liked them to keep tags, but maybe if enough people ask for them they'll put them back.

Title Cascade Effect
Rating G
Characters Tosh, Gwen. Rest of team mentioned.
Word count 1015 (yes, it was supposed to be comment fic.)
A/NWritten for lawsontl prompt 'Toshiko is the one that goes to the nuclear power plant. What changes?' over for the Women of Torchwood fest over on tw_classic here http://tw-classic.livejournal.com/260285.html

( It had been an easy decision to make, there really was only one of them that had a chance of halting a nuclear meltdown, )

I suppose the main one for me would be Torchwood, because there's pretty much nothing left of the show I started watching. (Not just the characters, but the setting, character's back stories and even the vibe of the world it's set it. Not to mention the fact that it changed from stand alone episode single overblown storylines and moved to a different country.)

Fixing it. Okay here goes. Since the Hub was blown up pressure has been building up in the Rift, and it eventually goes off. Queue people, aliens and who knows what else falling through into Cardiff.

The Hub is at the centre of it and Jack and Gwen (who have come back from who knows where) can interact with all the Torchwood 3 staff who've ever worked there - which includes Owen, Ianto and Tosh.

They all have to work together to fix the Rift. Tosh would get to work with Harriet Derbyshire to figure out how to get the Rift back to normal.

They soon realise the only way to stabilise the Rift is to set of a series of temporal explosions within it, but because of how it needs to be timed somebody from each time has to remain in the Hub to do it. What will happen to them they can't be sure.

Harriet agrees to be the one in her time and Tosh in hers, Jack says he'll do the one in the present.

Everybody does their goodbyes, because they don't know what will happen. Harriet's set off fine, but when it comes to Tosh's the destabilised Rift has caused the Hub to lockdown, meaning Owen and Ianto are stuck with her. They agree to set it off any way.
Finally Jack sets of his.

Big explosion, and when the dust settles the ruins of the Hub have become a mixture of Harriets time and the Hub as was just before it was destroyed. And in the Hub are Tosh, Owen, Ianto and Harriet.
With Jack, they all use the invisible lift back up to the Plas and meet up with Gwen. Torchwood 3 is back.