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it was facing a £35m deficit and that hundreds of jobs would be lost.

A former University of Warwick student said getting to the final of BBC Two's University Challenge, one of the UK's most prestigious quiz contests, was a dream come true.Thomas Hart, Benjamin Watson, Ananya Govindarajan and Oscar Siddle will appear in the final of this year's series at 20:30 BST against Christ's College Cambridge.

Mr Hart, 22, was in his fourth year studying maths when the programme was filmed about a year ago."I applied every single year I was at university. I made the Warwick team my first two years and we weren't cast to go on the show," he said."I was the reserve in my third year.

"To actually finally make it on at the last chance, as it were, and to actually make a fairly decent fist of it was really quite gratifying."This is the university's third appearance in the show's final and both times, in 2007 and 2021, their teams walked away with the trophy.

Mr Watson, 21, was completely new to the show.

"I watched it a few days before we had the try-outs in the university but I'd never seen the show," he said.He also said that visitors to the area were not staying as long as they used to, and that going to the cinema was no longer a "priority".

For cinemas to stay open, "people need to come to them", he added.Mr Morris, who runs several cinemas, said: "I've been depressed about it for quite some time.

"I've put a lot of time and money into the cinema, we moved up here to take over the Royalty and our principal reason for our being here is no longer."So it's lots of sad things all rolled into one, really."