{"id":507334,"date":"2026-04-01T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:03:09","slug":"teesside-businesses-on-fuel-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507334\/","title":{"rendered":"Teesside businesses on fuel price rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Business owners on Teesside have described how they are grappling with the rising cost of fuel amid the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacob Francis, from Cleveland Tree Services, said he paid about \u00a395 to fill up his small van at the weekend, which had previously cost him \u00a360. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been immense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re on the road all the time with our job, you use far too much fuel anyway, [it] just doesn&#8217;t help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, Hartlepool driving instructor Steve Howe said the future sustainability of his type of business was &#8220;a deep concern&#8221; for the sector, which was also hit by the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business owners on Teesside have described how they are grappling with the rising cost of fuel amid the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-507334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}