ADULT films were confiscated by police in a raid on a Herefordshire cinema in 1980.

Police swooped on the Roxy Cinema, in Ross-on-Wye, in July that year, taking away eight 16mm films made for "adult audiences".

The cinema's owner issued a formal statement at the time stating that the club was closed because police had confiscated his stock.

It was reported at the time that a team of police had blocked the exits from the cinema, while others went into the building and stopped the film show.

Around a dozen officers were reported to have entered the 300-seat auditorium and interviewed the management and audience.

There were only around 12 people present, and two of these were understood to be undercover police officers.

The cinema had been running a private members club in the evenings for around three years, which showed films after the public left.

Police said they had entered the cinema under a warrant issued under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 and removed a number of items.

The cinema, which dated from the 1930s, closed around two years later in 1982, and was later demolished.

Three supermarket chains were reportedly vying for the site in 1985.

Andrew Tyler, a director of London development company Alfred Walker Estates, which was taking on the £2 million project, said his company would build the supermarket then lease or sell it.

The new development would provide between 75 and 100 new jobs in the town, the developers said, with the proposed shop twice the size of any of the town's other supermarkets at the town.

The site, now The Maltings, is now home to Sainsbury's.