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Cine City in Withington is the latest historic building to go in the epidemic of greedy, short-sighted and inept development that has swept Manchester over the past ten years.
Formerly The Scala, it opened in 1912 and was only the third cinema in Britain.
Meanwhile the Victorian railway arches on Store Street, near Piccadilly, are being demolished.
