Courier front page news-fuel stolen

[EileenH]

Courier front page news this week had a story about someone in the town discovering that someone had stolen their oil for their central heating. This has nothing to do with the price of fuel going up. Five years ago we had oil heating installed, then 17 pence a litre. For the first few years we went through a horrendous amount of oil. We had the heating engineer out 7 times in the first year as we were convinced there was something wrong with the boiler. It was repeatedly checked for leaks etc and the engineer said I was using enough oil to heat 2 houses 7 days a week all year round. Eventually, we put a padlock on the tank. The result is that instantly we were using 1/3 of the oil we had ben using. This has stayed like this as long as we keep the padlock on. I know of others who have had the same problem. So if you have an oil tank I'd advise you to put a padlock on it.

[Kintyre Lad]

The result is that instantly we were using 1/3 of the oil we had ben using. This has stayed like this as long as we keep the padlock on. I know of others who have had the same problem. So if you have an oil tank I'd advise you to put a padlock on it.

Would echo this sentiment and we recognised the problem about 10 years ago!