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Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices

BBC News Business · 12 October 2026 at 16:34

Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices

Rural communities are badly hit by the rising cost of heating oil, as our Wiltshire reporter explains.

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Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices

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