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"Once you get your first decent sighting it becomes an addiction," says amateur photographer Gary Macleod, who remembers watching the light show for the first time aged eight.

From BBC

Cornwall and most of Devon were cut off from the rest of the railway network for eight weeks, causing travel chaos.

From BBC

Within five years, Operation Breakthrough, the ambitious, but ultimately costly, delay-ridden and politically unpopular federal initiative that had propped up the Kalamazoo factory and eight others like it across the country, ran out of money.

From Los Angeles Times

This was Scotland's fifth win in six Tests against England but their first in eight Tests when facing a team in the world's top 10.

From Barron's

Victory in the latest edition of rugby union's oldest international fixture also gave Scotland their first win in eight attempts against a top-10 ranked nation.

From Barron's