Dursley

[Mary Jennings]

Warner Brothers are obviously tight-fisted and anal retentive.  Here's an 
excerpt from the local paper Western Daily Press (North Somerset, England):


"Movie chiefs have banned a Gloucestershire town from using a little Harry 
Potter magic to drum up business.

It had been hoped to open up a visitor centre dedicated to the boy wizard in 
Dursley.

The Potter books' author JK Rowling lived in South Gloucestershire and she 
named Harry's adopted family the Dursleys after the town.

The Vision for Dursley group which promotes the town asked film-makers 
Warner Brothers for permission to establish a Harry Potter visitor centre.  
But the movie magnates have said no"


The article goes on to say how the council had hoped to be able to cash in 
(as it were) on HP as the town could do with regenerating and desparately 
needs the tourist money.  Gloucester Cathedral has had a 15% rise in 
visitors since the first movie came out as people flock to see the movie 
sets, but the rest of the local area is out of luck.  Tourism is especially 
needed after the foot-and-mouth disaster of last year.

Personally I think Warner Brothers needs a good slap up side the head.  What 
with all the revenue they're making off the back of HP, the least they could 
do is allow those places which influenced the creation of HP to benefit as 
well.

:::::gets off her soapbox:::::

Mary Ann
(picking out a heavy blunt object)


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