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built. However, an out-of-court legal settlement resolved the row, and a 4UESDAY TH *ANUARY s )SSUE s 5%! S )NDEPENDENT 3TUDENT .EWSPAPER News Issue 250 18th Reporter January 2011 legal deal was struck to enable both Nearly four years since its closure, the nightclub and bowling alley to be the nightclub formerly known as refurbished. The opening of the club will Lava/Ignite in the Riverside complex NEWS 3 and fullis to reopen, under the new name of generate 75 part-time uk .co. line -on rete onc w.c ww s 5%! NETWORK INCLUDING 7EBMAIL "ROADSEARCH AND PHONE SYSTEM FAILS IN CRUCIAL LAST WEEK OF TERM ISSUE 250 time jobs and increase the level of Project. Tuesday 18th January s #ONTROVERSY RAGES AS STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT FACULTIES ARE GIVEN DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT EXTENSIONS The club, adjacent to the spending in the surrounding area. Hollywood Bowl and seen as an Caroline Williams, chief executive of Joshua Resoun w lectu partreofr the area, will host Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, was laintegral UEANews Reporter a VIP grand Thursday pleased with the news. Problems withce the networkon have d UEAopening en nt se “This is good news for Norwich caused 24th considerable disruption staff February. Theto opening of and students leading up to and during the Project follows the reopening of the as the creation of new jobs will be Christmas break. Controversy also raged key to the economic development of Hollywood in December over disparities in theBowl extensions given to 2010. students in The light of the problems, with arts Lava/Ignite nightclub closed the city. At a time when the service receiving a ths 24-hour extension mon 15 to d sentence beenstudents in 2007 due to instructural concerns and science students being given January prison. this shows a positive commitment to with the building, a move which od a Woalso deadlines. Susann Theforced technology Sex appeared the on problems ed the plac closure of the toadjoining Norwich.â€? has been be over as of Friday January 14th when the that will host a bowlingecut alley. has It aion statement that been revealed Project Nightclub costs saying ISSUE 250 pros must pay released le published in The artic and university An UEA a year www.concrete-online.co.uk 2009-10 thewas the work toSince replace the networkin core rangeinof Gua nights, including anerindie then, the Riverside 2010 concrete.news@uea.ac.uk emb Dec 27th on n rdia ent received ÂŁ56,138.11 complete. The statement also stud expressed music night on Fridays, comedy complex, which also includes sation from the University. staff and for pen their orders com se students r. The orde ention to prevthanks Wetherspoon’s Queen of Iceni nights, and karaoke. The club will “understandingâ€? throughout the problems. The However, questions are still being asked pub, an Odeon cinema and several also see a host of live acts over the s Guardian offences. restaurants, has been hit hard by the course of the year. place, and what is being done to avoid these Laura Smith ve problems After Lava/Ignite complex was wellwhich shut down in September 2007 loss of money spent by thousands in the future. Project Nightclub to be opened in place of the Lava/Ignite Shortly before midnight on December a rise in hosting popular of clubbers each week. 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