Madam,

No doubt, many of your readers will have seen the mass of activity earlier this month when the Netflix producers of The Crown spent three days filming in the town, harking back to those days in the 1980s when the BBC arrived to film an entire series of The District Nurse, and like all things good and bad things have come out of it.

The good things include placing a Welsh flag above the old library which, if I am being honest, has been rather bare of late. So, therefore, I believe Aberystwyth Town Council should put a flag outside the old library on special occasions to help cheer the place up a bit.

Then come the bad things, including the rules that, in my opinion, prevented local people being involved. In order to appear as an extra, you needed to have been with a company who cast extras and be able to fulfil the following requirements: a) be able to travel to Aberystwyth for the filming and b) travel to Caernarfon the week before for a fitting session.

I, and, I dare say, a large number of local people cannot simply drop everything and drive to Caernarfon just to be able to appear in a production filmed in their own local community.

Therefore, I hope that Ceredigion council will insist that future filming rights are not granted unless people are able to stay within Ceredigion for the fitting procedure.

Yours etc,

Harry Hayfield, Llanrhystud.

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