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'The most amazing thing I have ever seen': Watch the UK's last total solar eclipse
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August 11, 2026
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4:45Now PlayingNot since Tony Blair was prime minister, Ronan Keating was topping the charts and Kevin Keegan was managing England's football team has a total solar eclipse been observed in the UK.
On Wednesday evening, 27 years later, more than 90% of the sun will be obscured by the moon - the most it has been blocked above UK skies since August 1999.
Watch how Sky News covered the once-in-a-generation event 27 years ago.
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