A FAULT in the electricity supply left anxious Bolton pensioners struggling to keep warm for more than 24 hours.

Residents in sheltered accommodation off Chorley Old Road had to cope with a faltering supply from Sunday afternoon until last night.

Mrs Marguerite Crossfield, 77, of Thaxted Place, said: "The electricity went off on Sunday at 2pm and did not come on again until 8.30pm.

"Then in the middle of the night I got up for a cup of tea at 2.30am, and it was off again.

"The following morning it was still off. I was so cold I spent my time indoors wrapped up in warm clothes and boots.

"There are plenty of very old people in the sheltered accommodation around here, some of who are disabled. It was very worrying for them being without light or heating for such a long period of time.

"I just went to bed early, but couldn't get warm.

"The following morning, there was just one of the residents who has a gas cooker, and we all queued at her house to fill our flasks for the day."

A Norweb spokesman said: "We have had a fault in that area. It was an intermittent fault in our supply which we were working on throughout the day to put right."

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