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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

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)

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.

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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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