Mr. Mainwaring would be proud

For the last few days I, and the nation, have been told not to panic by the government and the media, especially our national broadcaster.

However, as drove with a friend back from a meeting today, our BBC news pretty much screamed that '100 stations had already run out!!!!'.

We actually looked at each other, frowned, and said '100? That doesn't sound like much. And in any case it is just Shell stations at certain locations, isn't it?'.

This just in from Ch4 : Tanker drivers picket Shell, with this as an intro to the email: The fuel tanker drivers' strike is not bringing Britain to a standstill quite yet. Around 120 petrol stations have run dry across the land - that's just over 1%.

Seems that if we are not yet panicking, the media will do all it can to make us anyway.

At least I can trust them on that. Tomorrow, first thing, both cars to the brim... just in case.

Times - Petrol strike: garages start to run out of fuel