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Diesel prices exceed £2 a litre at forecourts across Scotland

Motoring organisation the RAC says it expects the average UK diesel price to hit a new record high over the weekend.

Tarun Mottlia

Via BBC News

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Diesel prices exceed £2 a litre at forecourts across Scotland
Image: Image caption, Conflict in the Ukraine and the Middle East have driven up prices on forecourts

Analysis by BBC Scotland News suggests there are at least 226 sites - stretching from the Borders to Shetland - where the price of a litre of diesel is greater than £2.

Some of the highest prices are in island and rural areas, including 238.8p and 223p in the Hebrides and 209.0p and 208.9p in the Northern Isles.

South Uist-based haulier Norman MacAskill said it cost 32p a litre to fill a lorry's tank when he started in the haulage…

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