Military tanker drivers take to roads to ease fuel crisis

(PA Wire)

Army tanker drivers are taking to the roads for the first time on Monday to deliver supplies to beleaguered petrol stations hit by the fuel crisis.

Around 200 military personnel – half of them drivers – are being deployed in Operation Escalin, despite ministers insisting the situation at the pumps is easing.

The troops – who have been on standby since the start of last week – will initially be concentrated in London and the South East where the worst shortages remain.

By Gavin Cordon.

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