Major fire at University of Nottingham
Around sixty firefighters tackled a major blaze which broke out at the University of Nottingham at the weekend.
Nott'm University: Lab would have been 'world leading'
Investigations are underway to establish how a major fire completely destroyed a building at the University of Nottingham.
The fire ripped through the building on the University's jubilee campus on Friday night.
The £20 million chemistry lab, part funded by the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline, was still under construction.
Dr Paul Greatrix Registrar, University of Nottingham, says the laboratory would have been 'world leading'.
The university also said it would be rebuilt.
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