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This week the TPA launched a major campaign calling for lower Fuel Duty. It was great to secure the backing of the Sun (and the Page 3 girls) for this campaign. With stands showing the facts about fuel tax going out to 5,000 forecourts, huge media coverage and thousands of supporters writing to their MPs, we are really putting the pressure on the politicians to at least freeze, and over time cut, the tax. Some people asked us how the Government could afford to freeze Fuel Duty, but more incredible examples of your money being wasted this week suggest there is plenty of fat to cut. - Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive

New fuel tax stands reveal 60% of the petrol price is tax Fuel tax stands have been sent to forecourts as part of a new TPA campaign exposing high taxes on petrol and diesel, working with the Petrol Retailers' Association and The Sun. They show that if you spend £30 on petrol, just £12 is the cost of the fuel, £18 is tax. Write to your MP at FreezeFuelTax.com As well as letting people know how much they are paying, we need to put pressure on politicians directly. That is why we created FreezeFuelTax.com. Please click the link, write to your MP and then pass the link on to your friends and family so they can do the same. £13.5m spent at top PR agencies This week a feature in the magazine PR Week looked at the top 25 PR companies working for the public sector. Those firms are raking in millions of pounds of taxpayers' moneydespite Ministers calling such spending "indefensible" just last year. Scottish Government spends £8m on flights In the last five years, Ministers and officials in the Scottish Government have travelled on more than 32,000 flights, over 4,000 of them business and first class journeys; arecord number of flights to destinations all over the world.