These days it seems hard to move for films that have either been filmed on Portland or about Portland.

Some examples include Dunkirk, which was filmed in part on Portland, Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach which, as you can guess, was about Chesil Beach and more recently, the horror film Underland - which was the only non-American film selected for the Lady Filmmakers Festival in Beverly Hills.

I admit that it is nice for our island to get some much-deserved publicity but is it possible that too much publicity could be bad for us?

Take West Bay for example. When Broadchurch first started, the locals enjoyed the novelty of tour buses visiting every other day (research tells me one tour costs £270 and you have to bring your own map AND lunch - but that is a story for a different day).

But in West Bay, like to every novelty, it wore off.

I worry that soon Portland will become just another point on a map for tourists and with only one road on and off the island, which already gets congested, how will regular people like you or me manage to get to work or school on time?

I think that it would be best if we, local people, all utilised our tourist information boards, go on a walking tour of our own and spend our £270 on a nice lunch or head to the cinema to see a film.

Dunkirk anyone?

By Ethan Skillman