Fuel duty and VAT adds about 80-90 pence per litre on petrol and diesel at the pump
Road fuel prices have reached or passed 190 pence per litre in parts of the country. At that price, just under half of that is fuel duty and VAT. Read
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Road fuel prices have reached or passed 190 pence per litre in parts of the country. At that price, just under half of that is fuel duty and VAT. Read
A picture shared on social media was originally taken by a Reuters journalist Read
A photograph claiming to show the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform actually shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine. Read
Posts on Facebook claim that photographs of a Ukrainian woman injured after an airstrike near Kharkiv actually depict events from 2018. This isn’t the case, and the images are genuine. Read
A video shared on social media claims to show an explosion and collapsed buildings in Ukraine, but it actually shows an explosion in Lebanon in 2020. Read
A map being shared on social media suggests potential sites of Russian nuclear strikes across the UK, but the original estimates are now 50 years old, and don't give any reliable indication of the sit Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Politicians from all sides quote seemingly contradictory poverty figures on a regular basis. This is bad for anyone who wants to understand the story of poverty in the UK. Read
The petition on change.org called for “The Black Lives Matter Cliffs of Dover” but it doesn’t seem to be connected to the BLM UK group. Read
An image being shared online is a fair reflection of what we know about the death tolls from Covid-19 and the Blitz. Read
The picture was originally attributed to bees at a National Trust property, but actually seems to come from a beekeeper who partly curated the pattern. Read