Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern lights, putting on a show over Loch Glascarnoch in Scotland. Photo: istock
Northern lights seen across UK in spectacular display, Revealed: the safest destinations in the world for travellers in 2023, Another Italian town is selling homes for €1 and more in top stories of the day.
Northern lights: Aurora seen across UK in spectacular display
In a very rare display, the northern lights were seen as far south as Kent and Cornwall on Sunday night.
Across more northern areas of the UK, the display was one of the best seen in a very long time by BBC Weather Watchers. An aurora is formed by a solar flare erupting on the Sun, sending charged particles towards Earth which interact with our atmosphere. More displays are expected in the coming nights. In the UK, you can often see the northern lights in Scotland, but they are rarely spotted in southern England. On Sunday, there were sightings there as well as Northern Ireland, south Wales and Norfolk.
A coronal hole high speed stream arrived this evening combined with a rather fast coronal mass ejection leading to #Aurora sightings across the UK@MadMike123 in North Uist@Jon9tea in North Wales@paulhaworth in Cambridgeshire@alex_murison in Shropshire pic.twitter.com/8JhqxPbcFK
— Met Office (@metoffice) February 26, 2023
Revealed: the safest destinations in the world for travellers in 2023
The Post Office Travel Insurance Safety Index, ranks destinations on how safe they are for solo travellers. By analysing stuff such as crime rates, the quality of medical care, rates of traffic deaths and WHO food safety ratings, the Post Office came out with ten of the world’s safest cities.
By those metrics, top of the pile came Seattle in Washington state, USA, followed by the Japanese capital of Tokyo and Portland in the US state of Oregon. Here’s the full list of the world’s safest cities for individual travellers, according to Post Office Travel Insurance.
- Seattle, USA
- Tokyo, Japan
- Portland, USA
- Vancouver, Canada
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Oslo, Norway
- Cairo, Egypt
- Dublin, Ireland
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Singapore, Singapore
Another study by security company Get Licensed ranked cities around the world based on similar factors.
Here’s the full list of the safest cities in the world, according to Get Licensed.
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Bern, Switzerland
- Bergen, Norway
- Kyoto, Japan
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Singapore, Singapore
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Salzburg, Austria
- Tokyo, Japan
- Doha, Qatar
Another Italian town is selling homes for €1
As property prices and scary interest rates continue to dominate conversations, Italy has come through once again with an unbeatable offer to get you on the property ladder. The town of Sant’Elia a Pianisi in the scenic region of Molise has put eight houses up for sale for just €1.
It’s a pretty sweet deal for prospective homeowners – but there is a catch. The houses are serious fixer-uppers, and those who do snap up a property will be asked to put down a deposit of €5,000 (£4,403, $5,330) deposit ahead of the necessary renovation works taking place. They’ll have to pay all the usual fees involved in owning a home.
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