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[[File:300-2017-04.png|frame|2017: Christian Life Centre]][[File:300-2006-12.JPG|frame|400px 2006: The disused bingo hall, shortly before refurbishment. Photo by Cashen at geograph.co.uk]][[File:300-1995.jpg|frame|1995: Photographed by Martin Stott]]
==20172015-present==
This building is occupied by the evangelical Christian Life Centre church. The organisation was founded by Pastor Grady Reid in 1996 elsewhere in Oxford <ref>http://www.clcoxford.co.uk/who-we-are/ website</ref>.
==2008-20??2015 ==
The building operated for a few years as a concert venue after being acquired by Oxford-based firm Solarview and undergoing refurbishment <ref name="oxMail">Oxford Mail 22 August 2006: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/888000.excinema_to_be_venue_for_arts/</ref>.
=== The murder of 'Wycombe Jay' ===
On 18 May 2009, Devon McPherson, a father-of-eight, nicknamed 'Wycombe Jay', collapsed in the Regal after having been stabbed in the neck on nearby Ridgefield Road. He later died in hospital.<ref>http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/4401140.COWLEY_ROAD_MURDER__Victim_was_due_to_become_a_dad_again/</ref> His last word was 'Champagne', the nickname of his murderer, Robert Chin. Chin, a drug dealer, was later sentenced to life imprisonment.<ref>http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4815400.East_Oxford_knife_killer_jailed_for_life/</ref>
==2005==