The civil service in Northern Ireland is seeking volunteers to oversee fuel distribution in the event of an emergency. The move is not in response to Brexit but comes weeks before the EU exit as businesses stockpile goods in Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Sinn Féin suggested advocates of a no-deal Brexit should be left to staff pumps and explain the disaster. Officials, in a letter sent to many staff on Thursday and without reference to the EU divorce, said disruption to supplies was unlikely but it was necessary to put emergency response plans in place. The advocates of a no-deal Brexit should be left to staff the pumps and explain the disaster of a no-deal Brexit They said Stormont’s Department for the Economy would work with the oil industry to ensure that organisations and individuals providing key functions, such as hospitals and healthcare workers, continue to receive fuel […]