Europe / United Kingdom · Energy

UK diesel prices hit all-time record high

Rank
Ran: 34h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 16
Regions: 4
Countries: 11
Languages: 7

The Independent United Kingdom · English 28 Sept, 09:16 UTC

The earliest of 9 English reports

Read it also in Türkçe (2) · +5 languages

Read at The Independent

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Independent, 28 Sept, 09:16 UTC.
Second country: Hungary, with Index.
Second region: Middle East, with Sözcü.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 28 Sept, 12:40 UTC.
Last article: 16 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

13%12%56%19%

Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 12%
Europe 9 outlets · 5 countries · 56%
Middle East 3 outlets · 2 countries · 19%

First movers

The Independent 28 Sept, 09:16 UTC
BBC News +20m
The Guardian +1h 29m
Index +3h 23m
TASS +3h 27m

Last to join

CNN Brasil 29 Sept, 19:37 UTC
CTV News 29 Sept, 17:00 UTC
RNZ 29 Sept, 16:44 UTC
The Irish Times 29 Sept, 15:00 UTC
TVNET 29 Sept, 12:28 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 16 outlets in 11 countries, across 4 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 16 outlets, 2 state-owned, 2 public-service, 12 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Brazil, Canada. Asia-Pacific 2: New Zealand, Pakistan. Europe 5: Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 2: Syria, Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, English, Hungarian, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish.
Timeline: Earliest article The Independent, 28 Sept 2026, 09:16 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 09:20 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 19:37 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Energy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Absolutny rekord. "Niekończące się kłopoty"; UK diesel prices breach two pounds per liter mark for the first time; US oil industry warns diesel prices will not return to normal for a year; Diesel prices hit record highs amid geopolitical tensions. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

28 Sept 2026 184 5.65 10 6 10 6 3.3

29 Sept 2026 113 11.36 16 11 7 7 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 09:20 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 19:37 UTC

Covered by 16 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
28 Sept 2026	184	5.65	10	6	10	6	3.3
29 Sept 2026	113	11.36	16	11	7	7	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 16 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 9 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets