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Dozens of lorry drivers in France brought rush hour traffic to a standstill in Paris’ financial district on Tuesday in the latest strike against the rising cost of fuel.

It is what the French call “Operation Snail” - the latest of its kind in recent months as fishermen, farmers, lorry and taxi drivers try to pressure the government into helping them face the oil crisis.

Lorry drivers are demanding cheaper fuel for professional use and want the price to be fixed for a full 12 months from the start of the year. Gerard Enel of the European Lorry Drivers Union said: “We want to be heard - the situation is getting out of control. Soon we won’t be able to drive our lorries anymore. We will keep trying to negotiate to get the price of fuel down because it is becoming totally impossible for us to manage.”
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Hundreds of lorry drivers converged on London yesterday to protest at rising fuel costs. Police closed a section of the A40 — one of the capital’s main arteries — so that it could be used as a massive lorry park.

From there the drivers made their way to a rally at Marble Arch, where they told of jobs under threat, severe belt-tightening and family companies facing closure.

Early yesterday morning, as the convoys set off from Kent, Essex and all points north and west, they were greeted with spontaneous applause from motorists, who are also feeling the pinch with petrol prices rising to an average of about 114p a litre and diesel to 126p.
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Haulage company staff are taking their lorries to London to protest against “the rocketing price of diesel”.

The protest will begin at the Medway Services on the M2 in Kent and will end with a rally in Park Lane in central London.

Organisers of the protest hope that hundreds of people will take part.

A delegation from the protest will hand in a symbolic coffin to the Houses of Parliament. The delegation will be received by Derek Wyatt, Labour MP for the Kent constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey.

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