STUDENTS from across East Lancashire celebrated at the Accrington and Rossendale College Higher Education Awards Evening.

The address was given by Professor Robert Boucher, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield.

Students received the following degrees, diplomas and certificates:

BA (Hons) Applied Social Studies (University of Sheffield): Heidi Bowker, Christine Johnson, Judith Murphy, Kirsty Trippier, Helen Horsfall.

BA (Hons) Band Studies (University of Sheffield): Alexander Blair, Graham Boag, Nicholas Chadd, Ronald Darwin, Dale Grindrod, Susan Howell, Alan Jazwinski, Emma Lundberg, Alan Macrae, Marc Owen, Robert Slocombe.

BA (Hons) Business Administration (University of Huddersfield): Natalie Eyre, Margaret Godfrey, David Melia, Susan Poulton, Kathleen Pratt, Hanadi Hamza.

BA (Hons) Cultural Studies (University of Sheffield): Rebecka Atkinson, Sharon, Dunn, Craig Fairweather, Mary Jessop, Eleanor Love, Joanne Nuttall, Julie Waddington, Katrina Wheatcroft, Ellen Birnie.

BA (Hons) Media Studies (Liverpool John Moores University): Peter Dimmock, Samantha Hartley, Janine Hoolahan, Daniel Stacey.

HND Business Studies (Edexcel): Shabnam Ahmed, Claire Alderson, Michael Church, Lesley Dearden, Kerania Embley, Naveed Hussain, Daniel Jones, Brooke Pattison, Khalida Qureshi, David Wilkinson, Judith Carey, Emma Carlton, Peter Fewtrell, Christine goodman, Julia Lewis, Linda Littler, Denise Shorrock, Salma Akhtar, Rouhi Ismail.

HNC Business Studies (Edexcel): Zoe Eglin, Louise Gilroy, Paul Hodgson, Helen Marsden, Claire Rowbottom, Suzanne Wise, Valerie Clapham, Dennise Metcalfe, Katherine Norris, Julie Atherton, Robert Cannon, John Dawson, Mushtiaq Siddiq, Dean Callaghan, Claire Johnson.

Certificate in Management Studies (Edexcel): Sean Moore, Margaret Taylor.

NVQ Administration (OCR): Paula Bond, Lynne Garvey, Pamela Wignall.

HNC Motor Vehicle Management (Edexcel): Eric Brown, Robert Brownkenna, Timothy Forster, Simon Nicholls, Derek Ormerod, Giovanni Vozzolo.

HNC Manufacturing (Edexcel): Christopher Barrientos, Andrew Blenkinship, Alistair Fletcher, Brendan Greenwood, Benjamin Gregson, Paul Harrison, Richard Jose, Shane Kenyon, Martin Lewis, Nathan Peel, Beth Sanderson. Lee Maringo.

BA (Hons) Health Studies (University of Sheffield): Gillian Crow, Stephen Cryer, Debbie Driver, Elizabeth Duncan, Deana Khan, Beverley King, Lorraine Lewis, Clarie Nelson, Annette Rooney, Susan Salt, Christina Smethurst.

BSc (Hons) Integrated Technologies (University of Sheffield): Nicholas Cornwell, David Crilly, Naveed Dad, Anthony Haworth, Simon Holt, Neil Hussey, Christopher Pickles, Derek Reid, Alan Rimington.

Certificate and Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (University of Huddersfield): Carole Bayes, Lisa Bracewell, Carolanne Connolly, Lesley Mercer, Rahila Hussain, Hilary Mcgonagle, Isabel Robinson, Lesley Sharples, Fiona Taylor, Jennifer Woods.

HND Interior Design (Edexcel): Melanie Appleby, Patricia Brook, Samantha Greenhalgh, Phillip Grimshaw, Asghar Haq, Anna Helligso, Karen Knowles, Angela Milek, Tracy Richardson, Rosalyn Wilkinson.