The demolition of Newcastle's first multiplex cinema begins on Monday to make way for a university campus. It will take eight weeks to clear the former Warners Cinema site in Manors, before work on the �100m Northumbria University campus begins in November.
The complex, formerly owned by Vue Cinemas, was opened in 1989 by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue, and closed last April.
Three academic schools will relocate to the site in September 2007.
These include the design, law and Newcastle business schools. The new site will cater for 3,000 extra students set to arrive by 2008.
The development will cost �102.9m - the university's largest ever investment programme.
A new landmark bridge and boulevard spanning the central motorway will link the new and current university sites and make access into Newcastle city centre easier for local residents.
Vice-chancellor at the university Professor Kel Fidler, said: "It is vital for Northumbria to establish the Newcastle city centre campus as its international headquarters."
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