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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neil Shaw & Liv Clarke

Fuel protests lead to queues at some petrol pumps

Drivers have faced long queues at petrol stations as protests have led to fuel shortages. Demonstrators have disrupted fuel deliveries at sites across the Midlands, Hertfordshire, Essex, Warwickshire and other locations.

On Sunday Just Stop Oil activities dug an underground tunnel to block fuel tankers at the BP Kingsbury Terminal near Tamworth in Warwickshire. Meanwhile activities also locked themselves in at the Buncefield and Grays terminals.

One in three petrol stations in parts of the UK are closed, according to The Sun, after protesters interfered with deliveries of fuel. Campaign group Fair Fuel UK says 1,200 pumps south of the Midlands have run dry, tweeting: "We are getting credible intelligence that 1 in 3 garages have run dry of petrol and/or diesel particularly in the south, because of the ‘stop oil’ amoebas."

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