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UK petrol prices to stay steady despite global oil price slumpRAC says motorists likely to miss out on cheaper fuel as filling stations try to stay afloatBritish motorists are likely to miss out on petrol prices below £1 a litre despite an unprecedented oil market crash triggered by the coronavirus lockdown.The price of petrol could fall from £1.10 a litre to 98p after the collapse of global oil prices. But the RAC motoring group said it expected petrol forecourts to try to hold their prices to help them stay afloat during a slump in sales of petrol and diesel due to lockdown restrictions on travel.The global oil price has plummeted to 18-year lows, and in the US it has turned negative for the first time, as demand has been battered by restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19.
17) If you take a holiday firm's voucher refund, are you protected if it goes bust? If your holiday's been cancelled you are legally entitled to a refund (see coronavirus holiday refund rights). Yet online many firms are pushing vouchers, and making you hold in long telephone queues to request cash refunds.You may be willing to take a voucher, to help the struggling travel industry out, or if you just can't face pushing to get cash. But if you have a voucher, what happens if the firm goes bust? - Refund credit notes: Issued for some ATOL-protected package hols and flight-only booking refunds, these will likely offer ATOL insolvency protection, so you'd likely get a full refund (though it's a new protection, so it's not been 100% tested).- Other vouchers: These aren't protected if the firm goes bust - legally you'd just be a creditor. Though I suspect, and the Financial Ombudsman agrees, it'd be worth trying cover via your card provider under chargeback or Section 75 rules. But this is untested.
From 'one small bear' in Siberia to 'four trout' in Montana: How the world measures social distancingBy now, you will have almost certainly heard the health guidance to stay at least two metres away from people outside your household to help slow the spread of coronavirus.However, while this advice is simple enough in theory, many people around the world have struggled to get to grips with what that distance actually looks like, inspiring authorities and news organisations to come up with some creative explanations.The BBC has offered a range of examples for the two metre distance, from the length of a mattress to the length of two shopping trolleys.Another popular example came from Siberia, where an information sign asked residents to “please keep the length of one small bear from each other”.The animal theme was expanded upon elsewhere in Russia, as the country’s Arctic National Park recommended visitors keep a distance of either one bear, one seal or one reindeer apart.Meanwhile in Canada, the government of Yukon has told residents to “stay one caribou apart”, while a sign in Vancouver explained two metres as “the distance from a cougar’s nose to the tip of its tail”.In the US, Montana’s state fish, wildlife and parks department has offered a range of fish-based measurements, such as four trout, one paddlefish and one fishing rod.Finally, the recommended distance in Australia was predictably the size of an adult kangaroo.
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