A new campaign is being launched on Friday to combat the growing problem of so-called light pollution in the UK.

Researchers have found that a good view of the night sky is becoming more and more difficult in the countryside.

They have found that during the 1990s the area of countryside with pure dark skies reduced by 27%.

Campaigners want better downward-pointing street lighting introduced to enable the continued view of the night time sky's landscape.

"We use light so extravagantly that we don't simply waste a lot of energy, but we're lighting up vast numbers of things that don't need to be lit and in doing so we're spoiling so much of the mystery and the beauty and the wildness of the countryside," Sir Max Hastings, president of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

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