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Wed 12 Dec 2002The price for London in lost tax: #500 million a yearThe manager of one border station said that up to 75 per cent of his business is coming down from the North, writes Brian Byrne. The station had to stop the practice of filling plastic container with petrol.Another station had stacks of "industrial strenght" 25-litre plastic containers, "cleaned and ready for use", on sale for €3 each. "I wouldn't exactly recommend them for petrol, but it's up to yourself," the operator told me. "We do have 20-litre metal jerricans for sale at €24."