A BED and breakfast in Ross-on-Wye was used as a setting for a 13-episode TV drama series.

The Old Court House in High Street is run by Christopher Kirkham-Sandy who is also executive producer of the new series which is called Conditions.

Mr Kirkham-Sandy said: "I have worked off and on in the film industry for many years."

The series has been filmed predominantly in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire and is being made by The Cotswold Production Company Limited, based in Stroud. Other filming locations have been Devon, Paris and even Sri Lanka.

Mr Kirkham-Sandy said: "It is topical because of the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry who are interested in mental health. "We have 13 different characters, each of whom has a fairly significant mental health problem.

"They escape from a secure house and into the real world and it shows them tackling their problem."

They hope to finish the series by the end of March and hope it will go out on TV screens by this time next year.

Mr Kirkham-Sandy said the series could be sold to Netflix or Amazon.

He said they were filming about half of one episode in Ross but the crew will be returning to the town to film once more.

They used his bed and breakfast for some of the hotel sequences.

Robin Townsend, producer and co-owner of the Cotswold Production Company Limited, lives in Ross. He said: "Mental health is a major factor in so many people’s lives: and has been to date the Cinderella of the NHS and not given the money or the attention it merits.

"Conditions aims to play a modest part in highlighting the various conditions."

Minder, television’s national tough-guy hero, Dennis Waterman, stars in the series, as does other well-known faces including Patrick Murray, who played Del Boy’s shady mate, Mickey Pearce in Only Fools and Horses, and the late Fenella Fielding whose appearance in Conditions was sadly to be her final role.