How we verify our news
Every story on fuel.co.uk is checked before it is published. Here is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Our news is produced by the New Reg group newsroom and published to fuel.co.uk. Speed only matters if the facts hold, so a story is not published until it clears a verification step.
A story is confirmed in one of two ways. Either it is reported by an official source, such as a government department or regulator, in which case that source is named and linked at the foot of the article. Or, where there is no single official source, the same facts must be reported independently by several separate outlets before we publish.
Anything that does not meet that bar is held back rather than published. Our stories are written in plain British English, and every article carries a named author and the date it was published.
We correct openly. If we get something wrong, we fix it and the article is updated. If a story no longer stands up, we take it down.
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