A BOLT of lightning sent a flag pole crashing when it struck a factory roof.
The 20ft wooden flag pole on the roof of A L Wallcoverings Ltd, Lower Darwen, was sliced in half during yesterday afternoon's thunderstorm.
Managing director Alan Lowe said: "I was on the phone in the office and I saw the lightning strike.
"It made a huge bang and cut the pole in two, there was no flag on it at the time."
The pole crashed down, smashing tiles and knocking a hole in the roof of the firm's two-storey storage building at Unity Mill, Kingston Place.
No-one was injured, but telephone lines to the wallpaper manufacturing and supply business were also cut in the storm.
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