The new light has 1 live, 1 neutral 1 earth wire, do i remove the earth connect the reds if so what about the 2 blacks?
Don't be a man. Get an electrician.
There should be black and white wires in the ceiling. Black is hot, white is neutral. If there is no ground wire, that's OK. You just wouldn't connect the ground wire anywhere.
Its quite simple really you dont. If the fitting in question has a requirement for an earth connection ie its made of metal then it requires an earth to be fitted. If there are no earths at your light fittings then you have have very old wiring and should be considering having a rewire as you are way out of date. As to the wiring you have at the ceiling now one of the reds is the live feed and assuming its twin cable and not single the black wire of the same cable is the neutral and the other 2 wires go to and come back from the switch, trick now is which is which.
No! Wire the new light exactly like the light that you removed. If you don't remember what wire went where on the old light then you made a mistake by removing the old one without marking the wires or at least taking a cell phone picture or something. It sounds like there is probably more than one light fixture being controlled by that switch. It's hard to tell by your description. Electrons don't flow by wire color. There is no way to really tell what is going on by naming colors. Come back on here when you have a better description of what is going on. How many lights come on when you flip that switch? Is there more than one switch that controls that fixture? Which wires were hooked to the old light? Are any of the wires still wire nutted together? Don't be experimenting by hooking that earth ground wire to any other wire. Leave it hooked to the ground lug on the box. It has nothing to do with the light operating. It's for safety.
