Welsh village turns off lights to stargaze with Tim Peake

Astronaut visits aptly named Star in Pembrokeshire to remind locals to embrace wonders of night sky

The evening was still, peaceful and - thankfully - reasonably clear. As dusk fell in the Welsh hills the people of a tiny Pembrokeshire village called Star turned off their lights to help deepen the darkness and traipsed through the gloaming to a farmer's field to meet a spaceman and gaze skywards with him.

"It's pretty amazing," said Catrin Davies, a teacher who had brought a group of children from the local school to stargaze with the British astronaut Maj Tim Peake.