Northern Lights turn north-east England’s sky fluorescent green and purple

The Northern Lights have made an appearance on the Northumberland coast after a solar storm made the Aurora Borealis visible across the country last night (Friday).

An astonishing technicolour display lit up the sky above Howick yesterday evening.

A stunning timelapse captured the phenomenon sending fluorescent green and purple lights shooting across the night sky.

The spectacular Aurora Borealis appears when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun, creating light.

It is more common to see the lights during cold, long and dark winter nights.

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