Thank you one and all for the your help and courtesy.
Have only just seen these replies as for some reason I never got further emails to advise of the posting.
FYI there are three cables coming out of the ceiling, there's ONE red, ONE black and then ONE which is currently taped up. Don't know if that changes things much with regards to what you said.
Hello there... I'm clever, I just did something wrong so am here for some advice. I am detaching a hideous light in our living room. For now we don't actually wish to have any ceiling light so the kind man at B&Q said that we could wire in the ceiling wires into a ceiling rose and that would be ...