N.I. fuel crisis filling stations - 42 locations revealed

If there is a major oil supply crisis in Northern Ireland the civil service will ration fuel at 75 "strategically located" filling stations throughout the Province.

The document, which included the "general location of designated filling station sites"; the following list has been reproduced as it appeared in the memo - to read the full background to this story go to Civil servants asked to volunteer to man 75 crisis filling stations across Northern Ireland.

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