A news agent in Sheffield who was attacked with a gun in his shop has thanked the police and the public for their support. Sajjad Ahmed Chaudhry, who owns the National News shop in Sharrow was left with bruises and a black eye when masked raiders burst into his shop. Mr Chaudhry wrestled the gun from his attackers and was badly bruised during the ordeal. It is he fifth time he’s been attacked since 1997. Baillor Jalloh reports for Sheffield Live!
Sheffield Doc/Fest is now accepting film submissions for the 2014 programme.
If you are a new, established or student filmmaker with a great documentary to share, there is no better place to launch your film than at Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Doc/Fest accepts short, medium and feature length documentaries about any subject or on any theme; and also encourages new interactive documentary films to enter.
To enter, please visit the Doc/Fest website – where you can find the rules and regulations and the submission guidelines, and the online submission form.
Films with a duration over 30 minutes (with credits) are charged at £30 (+VAT) per entry. Films running at under 30 minutes (with credits) are £25 (+VAT) per entry.
Doc/Fest only accept films submissions on Vimeo.
Submissions are accepted until midnight (GMT), January 24th 2014.
Many new documentary films have launched from the Sheffield Doc/Fest world renowned programme including ‘The Flaw’ by David Sington, ‘We Are Poets’ by Alex Ramseyer-Bache and Daniel Luccessi, ‘Fire In the Blood’ by Dylan Mohan Gray.
If you have any questions please contact the Director of Programming, Hussain Currimbhoy.
Professor Milton Wainwright works at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. Last week he attracted national and international media attention after writing in the Journal of Cosmology that he has recovered biological entities from between 22 and 27 kilometres above the earth that – he concludes – may originate from space.
And this week Professor Wainwright spoke with Sheffield Live’s Andy Cooper about his conclusions.
You can listen to Andy’s 49 minute interview with Professor Wainwright here:
Or you can listen to an abridged 11 minute version of the interview within the Communities Live programme from 26/09/2013, here.
Wainwright claims that it would be impossible for particles of the size he has recovered to ascend from Earth to this distance above the earth without an event such as a violent volcanic eruption, and that nothing like this occurred within three years of the sampling (done via a special balloon). He’s also emphatic that no cross-contamination occurred.
“Potentially a history making story,” says Andy. Listen to the complete interview, above.