Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Oil giant BP has had to 'temporarily close' some sites and is reducing its deliveries of petrol and diesel to forecourts due to the ongoing shortage of lorry drivers.
BP told the government in a meeting last Thursday that the company was losing the ability to transport fuel from refineries to its network of forecourts.
Hanna Hofer, BP's head of UK retail, said it was important the government understood the “urgency of the situation”, which she described as “bad, very bad”. Read more: Crisis warning issued to every supermarket shopper in the UK by Iceland boss According to ITV News, Ms Hofer said BP had “two-thirds of normal forecourt stock levels
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