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| Refinery protest over fuel prices | Refinery protest over fuel prices |
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| A group of farmers and hauliers are staging a demonstration outside the Stanlow Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire over rising fuel prices. | A group of farmers and hauliers are staging a demonstration outside the Stanlow Oil Refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire over rising fuel prices. |
| Up to 20 lorries are said to be backed up outside the plant and are being prevented from entering. | Up to 20 lorries are said to be backed up outside the plant and are being prevented from entering. |
| Police confirmed they were notified of the incident just after 2030 BST. There are estimated to be about 80 protesters and numbers are growing. | Police confirmed they were notified of the incident just after 2030 BST. There are estimated to be about 80 protesters and numbers are growing. |
| One of the protesters said: "Enough is enough, something has to be done." | One of the protesters said: "Enough is enough, something has to be done." |
| A haulier said: "It's affecting all of us. It's not just hauliers and farmers - although they are being crippled by the costs - it's going to have a knock on [effect on] everyone - in rising fuel costs and higher prices of food on the shelves in shops." | |
| 'Massive profits' | |
| A protester in Ellesmere Port said hauliers and farmers were being made bankrupt while companies still made a profit. | |
| He said: "People are going out of business left, right and centre and no-one seems to care. | |
| "Oil companies are still announcing massive profits and the government are taking massive amounts of tax - and they want to put another 2p on in October. | |
| "They've got to bring it down it down again. Something must be done or this country's industry will be lost." |