Fuel duty should increase - the Prime Minister has been urged.

As Gordon Brown faces increasing calls to scrap a rise in petrol duty one group has pressed for the move to go ahead.

Kent's Green Party has condemned pleas to scrap the planned fuel duty increase in the autumn.

It claims that will just speed up oil depletion and add to global warming.

Instead campaigners called for more freight on the rails and a reduction in traffic throughout Kent.