Meteor lights up the night sky across England

An evident meteor has been spotted lighting up the entity crossed England.

Video footage and reported sightings of the lawsuit connected Monday evening were shared from London, Hertfordshire and Wolverhampton successful the West Midlands.

The Met Office tweeted astatine 20:15 GMT: "Reports of a meteor successful the entity implicit the UK conscionable now. If you managed to instrumentality immoderate footage we'd emotion to spot it".

Clear skies contributed to the prime of sightings, it said.

Becky Roberts said she and her household were successful the plot of their location successful Lichfield, Staffordshire erstwhile they spotted it.

Sightings were besides reported successful West Sussex, Slough and Wiltshire.