Fuel prices: ‘Help us out’, says carer on brink of quitting
A carer who regularly drives more than 600 miles a week for work says she may give up the job. …
The scheme, which knocks another 5p off fuel duty compared to the norm, applies only to remote parts of Scotland, the Isles of Scilly and a handful of rural areas in England. It is based largely on increased costs of fuel transportation because of the distance from refinery to forecourt.