A COUNTY service station has been inundated with requests for fuel from a 'panicky public' although it hasn't sold any for two years. Robin Thorne, of the Bush Bank Service Station, Canon Pyon, received more than 30 calls on Tuesday morning.
"I wish I could have helped, I would have made a fortune. The public seem a bit panicky at the moment," he said.
SHOCKWAVES from the neighbouring fuel crisis in France have hit a Leominster engineering firm.
A restored Triumph Bonneville motorbike, due to be returned to a customer in Paris this week by Robin James, will have to stay in his Clinton Road garage until blockades have been lifted.
"It's odd how events in one part of the world can effect those in another," said Robin, who has spent two and a half years re-engineering the 1966 classic.
"This customer wanted us to deliver directly to him in Paris, but we won't be able to find enough fuel to get there, it's very frustrating."
The company, which has a world wide reputation for restoring vintage motorcycles, is currently working on a Japanese bike and expects another from New York 'any day'. Fortunately only one is due to be returned to the Continent.
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