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#WhereIsBoris trends as UK struggles to function – best Twitter reactions
"Dominic Raab on holiday whilst Kabul fell. Boris Johnson on holiday whilst Britain fell," wrote one Twitter user.
Council mulls declaring ‘major incident’ as fuel crisis escalates
The drastic move would give key workers priority access to petrol stations.
Police mock drivers who spent three hours queuing to get into petrol station…which was closed
"Bizarrely, it soon became clear that the drivers had been queuing at a petrol station for several hours despite the fact that the garage was not open to the public..."
Watch: Driver pulls ‘knife’ on motorist who runs him over as violence erupts outside garage
"The man pulled out a knife saying he will stab him."
‘York was sacked for less:’ Irn-Bru fans fizzing with anger after deliveries hit by driver shortage
"Scotland didn’t vote for Brexit and now it’s running out of Irn Bru. York was sacked for less," said one angry Twitter user.
£630 steaks, £100 burgers, £11 soft drinks: Salt Bae arrives in London
The new Knightsbridge restaurant has sparked outrage over its eye-watering prices.
Trousering our money? Train firm stripped of franchise over failure to declare millions of taxpayer cash
"SouthEastern taken over by the Operator of Last Resort - which sounds very much like a straight to streaming Jason Statham project," wrote Otto English.
BBC slammed as Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in new drama
"BBC keen to make more money off Jimmy Saville, a pedophile they protected with no care for his victims", wrote Faud Alakbarov.
Brexit-backing Warburtons struggles to recruit lorry drivers
In 2016, Warburtons' boss said: “Brexit is a very good thing to have happened. We could either continue to be in the European Union and wait for it all to collapse around us, or we could make our own way out of it and crack on as an independent nation. We decided the latter.”