The Northern Ireland Screen Commission – formerly the Film and Television Commission – has been boosted by a £12m (€17.5m) cash injection from the recently-established Northern Ireland Assembly’s Economy Department.

The death, at the age of 73, of Portadown-born film critic, Alexander Walker, of the London Evening Standard, has robbed the industry of one of its most influential - and literate - writers ... and our own industry of a staunch supporter.