it is 16 minutes past nine. the government says it will do whatever it takes, as a shortage of lorry drivers causes some petrol stations to close. a 38 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering the primary school teacher, sabina nessa, in south east london. it could take more than a decade to clear the backlog of patients waiting for cancer treatment in england. that s the warning in a report by a think tank. nearly 1.5 million customers have been hit in two weeks by the collapse of energy firms in the uk. it s down to a rise in the price of wholesale gas. a story we have been covering for you during that period. market regulator 0fgem has described the increase as unprecedented and says more firms could go bust. it also means there are fewer deals available to customers on price comparison sites and uswitch says there s currently no point in customers shopping around.
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nine. we have been asking you to get in touch about one of our other stories, the shortage of hgv drivers, which has caused issues in the supply chain, and the most recent issue over petrol filling forecourts, some petrol filling forecourts, some petrol stations affected by this. we should say on the a few. the problem is not with a supply of fuel. the feel is there but it is getting it to these filling stations. your thoughts. liam says the biggest problem is the cost of the hgv licence. surely the solution would be to reduce the cost of the license to encourage people to take it up. another one, open the fuel shortage was entirely predictable, it was known some time ago this was always a possibility the fuel shortage. brexit has many consequences, of which the driver shortage is just one. government asleep at the wheel? that is one comment. but this from gary. uk shortages are all down to the haulage industry, he says. they had four years to get ready for brexit and they are st
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hello, and welcome to bbc news this morning. the transport secretary has said the government will do whatever is required to tackle fuel supply problems in the uk. grant shapps said he wouldn t rule out changing visa rules to allow more foreign drivers to work in britain or even asking the army to help, although he said using the military probably wasn t the solution. the road haulage association says there s an urgent need to grant temporary visas to attract more hgv drivers from abroad. it s estimated that the uk is short of about 100,000 hgv drivers, with gaps made worse by both the pandemic and brexit. ministers are stressing there s no need for motorists, or shoppers, to start panic buying. theo leggett reports. petrol stations with no petrol, or diesel. yet another consequence of the national shortage of lorry drivers. the fuel giant bp supply is about 1,200 outlets across the country. some have had to close temporarily, while others have run out of one or more types of fue
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