Fuel prices show biggest weekly drop

FUEL prices have had their biggest weekly fall since current records began, figures showed yesterday.

Government data revealed the average cost of a litre of petrol was £1.12 on Monday, compared with £1.20 seven days earlier.

Diesel fell from £1.23 to £1.19 over the same period.

Some retailers were even pricing their petrol at less than £1 per litre.

It is the largest weekly drop in cash and percentage terms for both fuel types in records which date back to June 2003.

Supermarkets Asda and Morrisons reduced their fuel prices by 12p per litre for petrol and 8p for diesel last week. The fall has been driven by oil prices plunging in the past few weeks since Covid-19 took hold in Europe .

VULNERABLE people have criticised the Welsh and UK Governments as they cannot access an online register service to allow them to register for priority supermarket delivery slots.

The UK Government has created an online register so people can register to say they need extra help during the coronavirus outbreak. Yet people in Wales cannot register.

With click and collect and online delivery slots in short supply, the register is being used by supermarkets to prioritise those who are classed as “extremely vulnerable”.

It is open to those elderly people and those with underlying health conditions who were advised to stay in their homes and avoid face-to-face contact for 12 weeks before lockdown was brought in.

A spokesman for the Welsh Government

said vulnerable people here would be able to request a free weekly food box from their local authority.

But the Echo was contacted by the carer of a six-year-old with leukemia, who explained why being able to access priority supermarket delivery slots was also important and urged the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to ensure people here can access the register.

The family, who asked not to be identified, would qualify if they lived in England.

“There is no opportunity for Welsh patients to get on that list. There is no register here and nowhere to ask for help from. Online shopping has disappeared,” they said.

“These patients are so vulnerable they might not survive coronavirus.

“They would also put a massive