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Regarding the letter about short measures from pumps. For many years I was a service engineer covering filling stations for a number of oil companies. Part of the work was testing and recalibrating meters...
I was told recently by a bank official that if I were to present a cheque showing decimal parts of a penny, that it would be considered invalid, even bordering on illegal, as it was not, in effect, using...
I live within a half mile of Fawley refinery yet have to pay between 2 and 3 pence per litre MORE for petrol or diesel at nearby filling stations than the good burghers of Salisbury, some 25 miles further...