A SCHOOL and a pub suffered damage during a freak electrical storm which hit Bury.
A bolt of lightning cut and melted a telephone wire outside Bury Grammar School last Thursday (May 17).
The lightning put telephones at the school out of action. A Bury fire crew was on hand to make sure there was no danger.
Torrential downpours which followed the thunder and lightning also flooded the cellar of the White Boar pub in Radcliffe Road, Bury.
Sub-officer Steve Simpson of Whitefield fire brigade said: "There was also debris coming up from the drains. The water was coming in as fast as we could pump it away."
At one stage the flooding was two feet deep. Eventually, a large local authority street sweeping machine was called out to help clear away the water from the vicinity of the pub.
The Whitefield fire crew spent three hours at the scene.
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