In Cambridge, damn near everywhere seems to have stopped selling petrol. A friend at work went looking for half an hour or so, and couldn't find a single petrol station selling unleaded. Apparently a few are still selling super-unleaded, and more are still selling diesel, but there's very little standard unleaded left. She said that at one garage, the owner advised her to use normal 4-star instead, but not wanting a £600 bill for a new catalyst, she declined!

Eric, there's a bit of misunderstanding here. The government is no longer funding the Dome - this comes out of the lottery funds (although granted it was government money that got it built in the first place). When the lottery was first set up, the government decided (quite rightly, IMO) that hospitals, schools and other "core" areas shouldn't be funded out of lottery money, cos the moral grounds for this are rather dubious - "bet more to get better healthcare" doesn't sound like a good policy to me, and it wouldn't have helped their popularity any.

Why should you have freely-available cheap petrol anyway? I love those folks you see driving around in big 2-litre cars on their own, or in smokey VW vans, with Greenpeace stickers on the back! Apparently conservation and environmentalism is something that only happens in Brazil...

Grab.