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Professor Tim O'Brien, an astrophycisist at the Jodrell bank Observatory has described seeing the annual Perseid meteor shower on the clearest night to glimpse the shooting stars.

He said: "It's a bright flash of light that sort of whizzes across the sky. This particular one was probably about four or five times the width of the full moon.

"Quite faint in the beginning, bright in the middle and fainter again at the end. Quite a quick flash of light, you'll see them as streaks whizzing across the sky."

This clip is originally from the Phil Williams show on Tueday 11th August 2015