Northern Lights captured over Shropshire

The Northern Lights - or aurora borealis - appear as bright, swirling lights in the night sky

An amateur photographer has captured the Northern Lights over a Shropshire town for the third time this year.

Jody Wilson, from Oswestry, started getting interested in photography after the pandemic, joining the local online photography group Photosoup, run by his friend and mentor Jonny Morris.

Mr Wilson's latest picture of the Northern Lights over Oswestry was taken on Sunday night, just below the Old Oswestry Iron Age Hillfort.

"It’s amazing to see them so far south and it seems to be happening more and more frequently," the 43-year-old said.

"This was the third time this year I’ve managed to capture the lights in the Oswestry area, having also caught them over Ellesmere a couple of weeks back."

Mr Wilson said the light show was strongest at around midnight, going into the early hours of Monday morning.

"I took a couple of test shots in my back garden with my iPhone and a quick check of the [aurora alerts] app confirmed they were going to potentially get strong later so I headed out," he told the BBC.

"I really would love to head to Iceland one day and see them by eye.

"But it is truly amazing even to capture them by long exposure, virtually on the doorstep in Shropshire."