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Schoolchildren have their fingers crossed for fine weather on Friday - as they prepare to watch their very first solar eclipse.

Nottingham Girls' High School are among dozens of institutes across the county banking on forecasters getting predictions of cloudy skies wrong - so they can witness the biggest spectacle of its kind since 1999.

High School student Bertie King, of West Bridgford, has been experimenting with different ways of watching the eclipse safely in her physics class.

The...