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New Year Day Northern Lights snapped by fans

Shannen Headley
BBC News, West Midlands
BBC Weather Watchers/Wwanders123 An evening sky with purple and pink hues and stars twinkling. A faint skyline of woodland can be seen at the bottom of the pictureBBC Weather Watchers/Wwanders123
BBC Weather Watchers/Tammys Pics An evening sky with purple and pink hues and stars can be seen faintly at the top of the photo. Green hues can be seen in the far distance in between houses. BBC Weather Watchers/Tammys Pics
A stunning display of the Northern Lights in Telford on New Year's Day.
BBC Weather Watcher Tammys Pics captured this view from Leek, Staffordshire.

People across the West Midlands celebrated the new year by taking in a stunning display of the Northern Lights.

The bright colours of the aurora were visible across the UK after a strong solar storm.

BBC Weather Watchers captured their view across Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands.

The lights could be viewed again at the weekend as the Met Office Space Weather Centre forecasts another eruption of charged particles which are expected to reach Earth.

X/Freedom_Capture Pink hues of the aurora can be seen at the back of the photo, covered with grey clouds, over the water. Bare winter trees line both sides of the riverX/Freedom_Capture
The Northern Lights in Worcester, pictured by the river

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