More than 5,000 coupons urging Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown to cut fuel tax have been returned to the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.

The newspaper is backing the Federation of Small Businesses in Lincolnshire which hopes to persuade the Chancellor to take action in his March budget speech.

The Federation has printed thousands of car stickers saying “Cruel Fuel – Don’t Fuel Business Failure”.

Membership Secretary Ray Dixon told the newspaper: “We are being ripped off by the Government and being forced to pay 85 per cent taxation on fuel to carry out our jobs.”

The Telegraph’s coupon asks people to endorse the statement: “I am alarmed at the high tax on car fuel in Britain, compared with other countries in Europe. I urge you to cut the tax on fuel and stop penalising motorists at the pump.”

The coupons will be passed on to the Chancellor by the newsdesk.

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