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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Business
Sarah Ward & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

'We bought a petrol station - and now we're saving families £1,000-a year'

Villagers who transformed a disused petrol station are now saving families £1,000 a year as they bid to prevent fuel poverty.

Residents of Newcastleton in the Borders were deprived of being able to fill up for a decade.

Locals were forced to make a 40-mile round trip to find petrol for their tanks before the station's reintroduction four years ago.

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