The rapidly-developing new arts complex for Colchester can now be watched from the safety and comfort of your front room.

Firstsite, the organisation behind the £16.5 million building project, has rigged up a real-time webcam (see link below) on the neighbouring six-storey St James's House, in Queen Street, to give views of the construction site and progress of the building, due to open in early 2008.

David Grocott, Firstsite press officer, said: "We passionately believe in this building and want as many people as possible to see how beautiful it is."