SIR – The two sides in the dispute regarding the Odeon building have both enjoyed many column inches to air their respective views in your letters column.

May I say the building closed its doors as it was no longer viable as a profit-making venture.

Sentimentality, unfortunately, has no place in the modern era or indeed never did here in times past. I speak as someone who went to and enjoyed cinema and variety shows from the late 1940s, including the Saturday morning shows for children.

As to the building itself, it has all the charm of a large brick warehouse which has been embellished with white “wedding cake” stucco decoration on its towers.

So I say out with the old and in the with the new, and let Bradford take one more step to becoming a vibrant modern city worthy of its citizens.

Kenneth Waddington, St Wilfrid’s Crescent, Bradford