Tesco to pay for faulty fuel repairs

Tesco is apologising to its customers over the faulty fuel scare and is promising to pay for car repairs.

It has taken out full page adverts in national newspapers announcing its petrol is back to normal with stores stocking a "fresh, clean supply".

It carries a telephone number for customers to obtain further information and advice.

It comes after drivers were expected to launch a mass claim against Tesco and Morrisons, the other supermarket involved.

Thousands of motorists in south east England saw their cars splutter to a halt after filling up with contaminated unleaded.

The contaminated fuel was eventually traced back to four tanks at a Vopak storage facility in West Thurrock, which fuel supplier Harvest Energy said contained "unusually high levels of silicon".

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