World News: Fuel shortages remain in southeast England – Gulf Digital News

  • Date: 07-Oct-2021
  • Source: Gulf Daily News
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World News: Fuel shortages remain in southeast England – Gulf Digital News

LONDON: Gas stations in London and southeast England continue to suffer a lack of fuel although the situation has improved in northern England and Scotland, the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) said yesterday.

Britain will from tomorrow deploy military tanker drivers to deliver fuel after a chaotic week of shortages that has resulted in panic buying and some drivers hoarding petrol in water bottles.

The chairman of the PRA told Sky News his organisation’s survey showed that only 16 per cent of more than 1,000 sites checked yesterday had no fuel, an improvement on the 27pc reported to be dry on Friday, but local bottlenecks remained.