Diesel debate heats up as Sun calls for ‘scrappage-style scheme’

The damaging effects on public health of the exhaust emissions from diesel-fuelled cars were discussed in depth in the media as one paper launched a campaign to accelerate their demise.

Rik Thomas

22 August 2014

James Delingpole

THE UNCERTAIN future for the owners of diesel-fuelled vehicles, highlighted by Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Geoffrey Lean (LTT 8 Aug), has been taken up with considerable vehemence by several other papers. Most prominent was The Sun which, on 7 August, ran the front page headline “Diesel weasels” to launch a campaign on behalf of diesel car drivers. “The Sun today demands compensation for millions of drivers seduced into buying diesel cars – who now face...