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Thursday, 28 June 2012
BBC News
- VIDEO: Minister grilled on fuel duty U-turnOn the day that the government said it would delay a 3p-a-litre rise in fuel duty from August until next January, Treasury Minister Chloe Smith refused to say when exactly the government changed its mind.
The Herald
- Decade of A9 travel chaosMOTORISTS face a decade of disruption after ministers announced the £3 billion of work to make Scotland's most dangerous road safer will start two years earlier than expected.
- Osborne fuel duty U-turnGeorge Osborne has scrapped the 3p-a-litre fuel duty rise set for August 1, in what Labour last night branded
- Swinney unveils £20m upgrade for A75A STRETCH of road on which there has been a spate of fatal crashes, including one that claimed a baby's life, is to be upgraded using money underspent by the Scottish Government last year.
Derby Telegraph
- Derby Telegraph commented Scrapping of 3p rise in fuel duty will be reprieve for driversBUSINESS leaders in Derbyshire have welcomed a decision by the Government to scrap a planned 3p increase in fuel duty.
London Evening Standard
- Osborne 'cowardly' over fuel U-turnChancellor George Osborne has been branded an "arrogant coward" by a Conservative backbencher after sending a junior Treasury minister into the TV studios to defend his £550 million decision to delay the 3p hike in fuel duty.
Metro
- Chloe Smith 'humiliated' by Jeremy Paxman on NewsnightChancellor George Osborne was labelled a coward after sending junior minister Chloe Smith to face Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight over the government's fuel duty U-turn. Chloe Smith: 'I don't think many things are certain in this world.' (Picture: YouTube) The economic secretary to the Treasury struggled to answer any of Mr Paxman's questions and was unable to tell him how the £550million move would be funded or when she was informed of the decision.Her interview evoked the performance of fictional minister Ben Swain in political satire The Thick of It, in which the hapless politician blinks his wa...
The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)
- Fuelled you! Osborne drops 3p rise to the north™s relief HARD-PRESSED motorists in the north breathed a collective sigh of relief last night after George Osborne bowed to pressure by shelving August™s fuel duty rise.
The York Press
- 3p fuel duty rise scrapped THE Chancellor™s decision to scrap August™s planned 3p rise in fuel duty will improve the economy, North Yorkshire business leaders have said.
Peterborough Telegraph
- Video: Pupils™ guided walk through rules of the roadChildren were given a guided walk through the basic rules of the road in Peterborough as part of Child Safety Week.
Other Regional Press
- Bedfordshire MP welcomes fuel plansALISTAIR Burt MP has welcomed the government’s announcement over fuel duty.
Campaign for Better Transport
- Fuel duty: We need better options to get off oil, not knee jerk responses27 June 2012: George Osborne's sudden announcement yesterday that August's fuel duty rise will be postponed was a knee jerk isolated response to a party political problem. read more
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- MPs welcome fuel duty move The government's decision has to freeze plans to increase the fuel tax rate by three pence per litre in August has met with approval from MPs, who claims it will boost businesses and help consumers in difficult economic times.
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