In pictures: The fuel protests

Fuel protests have triggered shortages, panic buying and traffic chaos across the UK.

Truckers and taxi drivers have been staging protests at oil refineries and in city centres, while motorists queue to try to fill up their tanks before supplies run out.

Tankers marked for emergency service were allowed into the Stanlow refinery to collect fuel

A garage in Tooting, south London, where pumps have run dry

Blast from the past: A shot from London during the 1973 fuel crisis when some motorists were given petrol coupons

Farmers read about the action they have helped to create at the Stanlow refinery

Lorry drivers on the picket line at Avonmouth docks

Queuing for petrol in Southampton as supplies run low

Panic buying: The surge in demand is forcing petrol stations to close

Going nowhere: Shell tankers at the Fawley oil refinery, Hampshire, as lorry drivers blockade the entrance

A Shell lorry in Cheshire manages to hit the road - but is temporarily held up by a taxi