A UNIVERSITY of Central Lancashire student from Rossendale has won a television prizes at an award ceremony.

UCLan students collected three of the seven awards up for grabs at the North West Royal Television Society’s annual Student Television Awards and UCLan students were also the runners up in three of the categories.

Animation student Ashley Collier was handed the short feature prize for Felix.

UClan said the jury felt was a 'challenging short story' that was 'brilliantly done' and 'visually clever'.

The 30-year-old spent four months working on the project while he was in the second year of his animation undergraduate course at the university.

He said: “It feels great to have won. It's amazing to receive an award from such a high profile organisation like the RTS and hopefully it will do me some favours when I start looking for jobs in the industry.”