Normally only seen much further north. Due to strong solar flare activity, the Northern Lights, aka Aurora Borealis have been visible over much of northern England and Scotland the past few nights.

Not sure if I posted this before, but part of a BBC documentary where Joanna Lumley searches out the Northern Lights. Watch the part from about 4:30 where the "Lights" appear:

saw them from Edinburgh the other night but wasn't the clearest = phone pics were awful : (

This is one thing I once would like to see live!

My best friend saw them on a flight back from Thailand. He is the most unemotional dude, and he was close to tears explaining how beautiful it was to see it from 10,000 feet in the air.

That's when I realized that he was gay along with Aurora Borealis.

On a more serious note...imagine a Thai trying to say Aurora Borealis.

HAHAHAHA.

awww me too want to see once before i die >< ahhhh especially on the plain like you said.

I agree I have only gotten to see them really good in North America once in my lifetime they are really spectacular to see... without a doubt

I think this might have been posted on TF before but it is a really cool perspective. the northern lights pick up at about 1:09

Also see. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/northern-lights-gallery/?pid=2955 for some amazing photographs of the aurora.