The day Planet LSS came to life...

Where did you come from? Students shocked to find more to LSS than the Journalism department

A fire drill transformed a normal Wednesday into a day of excitement as LSS sprang to life.

How many people, not including other students, do you usually see in the Liverpool Screen School building on a normal day? Not many. Ten at most?

A fire alarm broke the monotony of this particular March morning, and transformed the Liverpool Innovation Park gardens into a mass gathering. Not the usual fire drill noise test we get on Tuesdays... this was a proper one, though thankfully without fire.

The workers of the building started gathering in the garden area behind the building, with students and lecturers mixing in with the growing crowd.

Andrew Meyer and Ian Donanghy, both project managers for Connect, commented: “We’ve been in this building for four or five years now… its not been this exciting any other time.”

People from nine companies, including Sony and Selex Communications, as well as JMU students assembled in the garden area.

Beth James from Connect Internet solutions said: “We’ve been here since February 2005, just over four years, and we’ve had one or two fire alarms each year at most. There’s more people now because of the JMU students, but I’d usually say is quiet around here anyway.”

Mike Lunt, a Media Professional Studies student, said: “It's weird to think that there are so many people in that building at any given time and you never cross paths with any of them.”