Six years ago this week were all sitting in our houses amid a Government-imposed lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic but this week has felt strangely reminiscent of that weird time.

Not because we have all been forced to stay indoors again (thankfully) but because the panic buying has started anew.

Only this time instead of it being toilet roll and pasta, it has been petrol and diesel.

Panic buying leading to restrictions at Tayside and Fife pumps

In The Courier and other newspapers, on television and on social media people have been reporting shortages at filling stations in Tayside and Fife, or drivers queuing up to fill their tank with “liquid gold”.

Some locations have even had to send a member of staff out to act as a steward at the pumps.

And one petrol station in Crieff even limited how much fuel customers can pump.

I saw it for myself on Wednesday evening as I drove along Riverside Drive in Dundee.

At the Tesco filling station, every pump had one of those yellow “not in use”........

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