Strange balls of fire were spotted floating across the dark night sky over Oakworth Road last night.

The hovering lights were not UFOs but Chinese lanterns, let off by pupils at Oakbank School to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Pupils stayed behind after school to do arts and crafts relating to China as part of the China in Yorkshire project which is being celebrated across the county.

Afterwards, the group gathered outside the school to bestow wishes on the lanterns before they set them alight and watched them burn away into the night.

The celebrations were also in honour of their guests from Cameroon, who were representing the school Oakbank is twinned with in that country. .