PETROL prices tumbled to £1.23 a gallon as two garages in Burnley town centre fought a price war that knocked a third off the cost of petrol in a week.
Motorists queuing for the cut-price fuel caused a traffic jam to the Gannow Top M65 junction as the two Trafalgar Street garages vied to undercut each other's prices.
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