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A government spokesperson said the chemicals industry was paying the fossil fuel penalty, with wholesale gas costs remaining 75% above their levels before Russia invaded Ukraine.

However, fires like this typically spike wholesale spot prices, which are reflected at the pumps within a few days.

Retail petrol prices have surged, while wholesale prices - the cost at which retailers buy from producers - have risen even faster, growing by 40% since January.

Alex Stanley, from the National Union of Students, said the reintroduction of grants "has to be the beginning of wholesale change in our broken education system".

That came as a surprise, although it is nowhere close to calling for "wholesale change" as the mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has done.