A RISING Nottingham filmmaker was putting the street where he lives on the map.

Shane Meadows was using the people and places of Jubilee Street, Sneinton, to make his first feature-length film.

Shooting was to begin the following month on Left, a black comedy about a young man, his girlfriend, and the small-time crooks they got mixed up with. Scenes would be shot at the post office, pet shop, café and launderette in the Sneinton street.

The film had a budget of about £5,500, although the 22-year-old director said more would be needed.

"It's going to be 90 minutes long and a lot of the people in the film will be people who live and work in and around Jubilee Street," he said. "You don't need to be an actor or actress to be in films."

Torvill and Dean were playing down controversy about taking their farewell tour to other cities but not playing the Ice Stadium.

They said the venue was too small for their spectacular and it would have been an inferior show had they put it on in Nottingham.

But Ice Stadium bosses were mad about the suggestion and claimed money over-rode local loyalties.

"This was a show that cost so many thousands of pounds to put on," said Christopher Dean. "The minimum each day needed to cover the costs, without making any profit – which is why you do it – is an audience of 4,000 people."

It just wouldn't have been the same, Jayne Torvill said.

"We could not have put on such a wonderful show. If there was a big venue here, we'd have come here."

But Ice Stadium boss Peter Cooper wasn't having it. "We were left in no doubt that finance was the over-riding factor," he said.