Headless Ed is star of winning student film

It may not quite be the Baftas but four students from the University of Central Lancashire have beaten off s national competition to win a prestigious film award.
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Jun 2017, 15:22 BST
Updated 18th Jul 2017, 08:45 BST
RTS Student Television Award Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize winners from l-r Yousef Thami, Jake River Parker, Heather Davenport and Liberty Shaw  IT MUST BE CREDITED TO RICHARD KENDAL/RTSRTS Student Television Award Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize winners from l-r Yousef Thami, Jake River Parker, Heather Davenport and Liberty Shaw  IT MUST BE CREDITED TO RICHARD KENDAL/RTS
RTS Student Television Award Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize winners from l-r Yousef Thami, Jake River Parker, Heather Davenport and Liberty Shaw  IT MUST BE CREDITED TO RICHARD KENDAL/RTS

Yousef Thami, Liberty Shaw, Jake River Parker and Heather Davenport received the Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television Award 2017 Undergraduate Comedy and Entertainment prize for theri entry, Headless: The Ed Shales Story.

Two other UCLan students were nominated for awards. Ashley Collier was nominated for Felix in the Undergraduate Short Film category while Gregor Aiken was nominated in the Postgraduate News category for The Green and White Army.