A music fan’s love of vinyl has inspired him to start a new business.

Jay Reed, 47, the son of Bob Reed, owner of Leigh Music Exchange in London Road, Leigh, started his business, CutaDub due to his love of music.

He said: “I suppose being brought up around a record shop was very much a big factor in me doing this.

“I make music as well and with digital and CD. I was finding that my music was being pirated so that is why I originally started dub plate cutting.

“My favourite genre is reggae and that is a type of music that is more commonly found on vinyl than anything else.”

Mr Reed has been creating his own vinyl records for six years since he travelled to Germany to train in the trade.

He has been running the business from his home in Waarden Road on Canvey.

Mr Reed has been collecting vinyl since he was young and now boasts a vinyl record collection of more than 1,000.

He believes that vinyl records are still the best way to listen to music, despite the development of streaming in the past five years.

He said: “I like to have something that I own myself, I have never bought a CD in my life and I do not download music either.

“With vinyl, you have something that you can hold where with downloads you are only paying for the rights to listen to it, it’s not the same.

“That is where I came from and vinyl became a big part of that.”

Since then it has allowed Mr Reed to create custom made records for artists in the area.

Mr Reed still makes music in his spare time but can now combine business and pleasure.