AN electronics firm has predicted the days are numbered for the humble household key!

BSD Electronics of Great Harwood believes electronic access systems used by businesses could soon become standard in domestic properties.

"The key has been a part of life for so long that it is inevitable that people should think that it would always be the way," said Brett Burby of Blackburn-based BSD which supplies electronic access control systems for business.

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