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Retail pump prices for diesel and petrol in the United Kingdom, as tracked by motoring groups and government data.
Daft as a Brush, a Newcastle cancer charity, says diesel costs have swallowed the money it planned to spend replacing its 30 vans with electric ones. With the UK average above £2 a litre, the extra fuel comes out of donations and keeps the fleet on diesel for the next price rise.
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Google Maps now shows UK petrol and diesel prices drawn from the government's Fuel Finder feed. Google says it will leave off any price it cannot confirm is current, dev.to reported, so a station that reports late can appear on the map without one.
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UK diesel averaged a record 200.01p a litre on Friday, the RAC said, up 40.5% since the Iran war began in late February. Because the shortage sits in damaged refineries in the Middle East and Russia, fleet operators setting next quarter's fuel budget have weak grounds to plan on a quick fall.
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Coach operators say record diesel above £2 a litre could force cuts to services, including home-to-school transport. Unlike England's local bus operators, coach firms get no help with fuel costs, so the rise falls on businesses that are mostly family-run.
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Unite says more than 160 Apache offshore workers on the Forties and Beryl fields could strike later this month over a 4% pay offer. The union warns of severe harm to UK fuel supply, a claim Apache answers by comparing any pipeline pressure drop to routine maintenance.
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