A plastics company was without electricity for more than 15 hours after a power cut in the Livesey Branch Road area OF Blackburn yesterday.

Houses and businesses were all affected by the power cut caused by a high voltage fault at 5.30pm yesterday.

Norweb managed to restore power to all but one customer in just over an hour.

But Verifyne Plastics Products on Slater Street was without power until 8.45am today.

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