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
The video is actually from the tactical shooter game Arma 3. Read
Immigration
Many countries taking Ukrainian refugees never required visas in the first place. Others have waived visa schemes entirely. Read
A photograph claiming to show the Dynamo Kyiv football team in army uniform actually shows members of a nationalist group in Ukraine. Read
Italian fact checkers have found no evidence the shot was broadcast by TGCOM24. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it has sanctioned Russian bank assets worth more than those sanctioned by the US or EU—but hasn’t explained how it reached its figures. Read
They can only show that the company that registered the code was based there. Read
There’s plenty of evidence that the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not napalm, as a Facebook post claims. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has previously described the practice of adding up multiple years of spending increases as “misleading”. Read
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