IT was lights, camera, action in Bewdley as filming got under way for a new movie to generate funds for a national charity.

Actors and directors descended on the Severn Valley Railway station to shoot "All the Way Home", described as an " old fashioned-style ghost story".

The short film is one of seven being produced in the Midlands as part of the Balance Film Project, which will be raising money for Diabetes UK.

It has been directed by Kidderminster College video production lecturer and filmmaker, Rupert Millward, whose movie, "Last Meal", was screened on the Horror Channel last year.

Mr Millward said: "We didn't want to do your average run-of-the-mill ghost story. We wanted to do something very subtle, something that's nice and spooky."

He explained: "It's about a man who is having marital problems and doing excessive hours at work. His wife assumes his extra hours at work are actually him having an affair.

"On the way home from work one day, he steals a bunch of flowers from a roadside shrine left for someone killed in a car crash.

"The ghost of the girl comes back to haunt him and his wife, who catches a glimpse of her, assumes she is his woman on the side." Shooting also took place along a remote Bewdley footpath and at a house in Franche Road, Kidderminster.

The movie was written by newcomer, Annette Stephens and David Reynolds-Lacey, who worked on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", was recruited as director of photography.

Actors included Worcester's Rob Leetham and Bob Harper, while Martina Goodman was the vengeful ghost, Alice, and Tracey Briggs was Candie, the suspicious wife.

The films, which also include a musical, documentary and a romantic comedy, will be available to download in July at www.balancemovies.com for £1 and further information is available from the website.

For further information about the charity, which is devoted to the care and treatment of people with diabetes, log on to www.diabetes.org.uk