Watch out, there's an Armadillo about - and a cinema comes with it!

Yate's new Youth Cafe building finally has a name. It's going to be called Armadillo, because of its unusual shape. The £1.3 million project will open in April. And it will have a small CINEMA too - Yate's first for many years!

The 60-seater cinema will be funded by £35,000 that was left over when Merlin Housing Society took over South Gloucestershire's council houses in 2007. Each South Glos councillor had a share of the fund, and the Yate councillors decided to pool theirs and pay for the cinema.

Yate Town councillor Chris Willmore, who has been leading the campaign to bring cinema back to Yate, said it was great news."It won't be a commercial cinema but it will show the latest movies and will offer Saturday morning films for children, discounted mid-week films for pensioners and mother-and-baby showings. It will be run as an enterprise venture by young people and will be an income stream for the running costs of the cafe"

The youth cafe project is a joint venture between Yate Town Council and South Gloucestershire Council, and local young people have been heavily involved throughout the project.