Fuel price still rising

SUPERMARKETS have increased the price of petrol and diesel every day since the end of March, a new analysis shows.

More than eight pence per litre was added to average pump prices between March 26 and May 23 at the big four supermarkets, RAC data shows.

The rises are due to the price of oil increasing to more than $80 a barrel. Average UK forecourt prices stand at £1.26 per litre for unleaded. A MARRIED couple who went for a week without checking their £21 million jackpotwinning lottery ticket have said they are “shellshocked”.

Donna Stickley, 48, and her husband David, 58, said they might spend some of their £21,044,592 winnings on a beach honeymoon and making sure that elderly relatives are looked after, but they plan to go back to work.

Using their regular numbers – 1, 15, 21, 30, 35 and 44 – the couple, from Slough, were the sole ticket-holders to scoop the jackpot in the May 12 Lotto rollover draw.

Mrs Stickley had left the ticket in the bottom of her handbag. She went to the shop on May 19 to buy the next week’s ticket and was told she needed to contact Lottery operator Camelot as she had won more than £500.

The couple, who have no children, have been together for 20 years but only tied the knot in March. Mr Stickley said: “Some of it will probably go on a nice honeymoon.”