Hello, well we finally got the spring statement, that sort of not budget but quite budget like

event from the chancellor, which the treasury wanted to be quite low key but because of

various things we've been talking about for the last few months it ended up being kind

of higher key in a bigger deal. And at the centre of it one of the measures was something

that is in the newscast basket of goods, it is a letter of unleaded petrol.

No, when we're talking about petrol the person I want to hear from is the legendary Phil

McCann who's here. Hello Phil. Hi Adam, hello. Now we last spoke to you when you were

covering the fuel shortage and you went viral because everyone thought it was hilarious

that we sent someone called Phil McCann to a petrol station. I'm guessing you're in another

petrol station now. Yes I'm at another petrol station now I mean what kind of place would

I rather be, honestly, a petrol station. Which petrol station are you at? This is the BP

Spa Starbucks kind of petrol station on Rekson Road just on the outskirts of Chester

which are drive past quite a lot and it is one of the more expensive ones in the area.

Well you're in the perfect place because we're recording this episode of newscast at 7pm

on wednesday and at 6pm today 5pm later came off the fuel duty that the government puts

on fuel. Have you witnessed the 5p per litre coming off Phil? Well I didn't experiment

so I swung past here at about 5pm and the price of them that it then was 172.9 per litre

and the price now is 172.9 per litre. So that's a big no from here but that shouldn't

be surprising because I've seen some of the supermarkets in the St. Petersburg and

Asda have said they will pass this duty cut on tonight but they're under no obligation

to do so and actually if you think about it from the kind of point of view of the petrol

for courts themselves. When they bought the petrol that's now in the pumps at places like

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