A BARNSLEY pensioner brought up to believe going to the pictures was ‘wrong’ has been to see her first film at the cinema in almost 45 years.

Elsa Simpson, 75, was raised in a strict Christian household and can count on one hand the number of times she has been to the cinema.

But that’s changed now she’s joined a cinema club set up by a Barnsley support group that helps people with dementia and their carers, a condition that affected her husband Howard before he died last year aged 77.

Elsa’s first silver screen experience in year was to watch biographical World War Two drama Hacksaw Ridge. And she loved it.

“It’s the first time I have been in many, many years,” said Elsa, who lives off Midland Road, Royston.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle