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I want to replace the old wall lights in my kitchen. They currently work independently from the main ceiling light switch and have there own built in switches on the actual lights themselves. The new lights don't have switches, so I plan to hook the existing mains cable up to new independent...

Thanks very much for your advice Qedelec, the switch was operating upside down and and I have now swapped the blue and yellow wires over. As for the covering plate for the redundant wire, this does not exist and i have know idea where the wire may be. Many thanks, it's much appreciated.

I have just had to replace the light switch in my kitchen and have discovered that it's a 2 way switch but there are no other switches in the kitchen. The switch itself was very old and had the wiring as follows- looking at the wiring side of old switch red is at the top, yellow at bottom...