Met Office says aurora borealis may be visible across north of country and possibly even further south

The northern lights are expected to be visible in Scotland this weekend, the Met Office has said, with a chance of sightings further south.

Sightings of the aurora borealis, a naturally occurring light display caused when electrically charged particles from the sun collide with atoms and molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere, are possible over northern Scotland “and potentially over much of Scotland where skies remain clear” on Saturday night and into Sunday morning, according to the latest “space weather” forecast.

Ubiquity of then-illegal relations at King’s College, Cambridge, explains puzzling 1952 admission, says scholar

For decades, it has puzzled historians. Why, in the course of reporting a burglary to the police in 1952, did the maths genius Alan Turing volunteer that he was in an illegal homosexual relationship? The admission enabled the police to prosecute the Bletchley Park codebreaker for “gross indecency”, ending Turing’s groundbreaking work for GCHQ on early computers and artificial intelligence and compelling him to undergo a chemical castration that rendered him impotent. Two years later, he killed himself.

Now, research by a University of Cambridge academic has shed light on the reasons why Turing, a former undergraduate and lecturer at King’s College, Cambridge, did not hide his homosexuality from the police. “There was a whole community in King’s quite different from stories one knows about from gay history, usually involving casual pickups and a lot of despair, hiding and misery,” said Simon Goldhill, professor of classics at the college.

UK reviewers described the homely show from the Duchess of Sussex as ‘smug, syrupy’ and narcissistic

It received a “toe-curling” one-star review in the Guardian, was written off as “smug, syrupy and endlessly spoofable” in the Times and denounced as “an exercise in narcissism” in the Telegraph.

But according to Netflix, “there’s more joy to be shared”.