This was the scene on a stretch of Croston Road, Farington Moss, at around midnight November 14th. Also plunged into darkness were Flensburg Way, part of Penwortham Way and part of Church Lane.
The power outage set off a symphony of burglar alarms in the area and revealed many stars not usually visible due to light pollution so it was really quite romantic.
Suddenly the lights came back on and the stars went out. Other disadvantages will be that some people will be late for work as their alarm clocks fail to go off and those who haven't installed back-up batteries in their answerphone machines will lose important messages.
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