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NewsBlackpool forecourt granted 24-hour shop licence despite police concerns
An Esso-branded Rontec filling station on Yeadon Way, Blackpool, has been granted permission to open its shop 24 hours a day, despite police raising concerns about anti-social behaviour in the area.
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NewsBorder Force officers make arrests at hand car wash
Merseyside police and Home Office officials from the department’s Border Force division have made two arrests following a raid on a hand car wash in Liverpool.
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NewsSecurity guards and Real Living Wage help make BP ‘happiest place to work’
Introducing security guards at its company-owned forecourts to make staff feel safer and helping employees learn sign language. Those are just two of the initiatives that have seen BP named as the retail industry’s happiest place to work.
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NewsPolice object to forecourt’s 24-hour application over staff safety concerns
Blackpool police have objected to a Rontec filling station shop opening 24 hours a day due to concerns that such an arrangement may not be safe for employees, even when two members of staff are on duty overnight.
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NewsImmigration arrests follow Cheshire car wash raid
Police and Home Office enforcers have arrested three individuals for immigration offences following a visit to a car wash in the village of Lymm, Chesire.
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NewsArrests follow as Welsh Shell site falls victim to vape and alcohol thieves
Dyfed Powys Police have arrested three men after a Shell filling station in Crickhowell was targeted by thieves.
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NewsOne in four shoppers witnesses theft, and assault or abuse on retailers
Shoplifters are becoming “bolder and more aggressive”, with almost a quarter of consumers witnessing incidents of theft, as well as abuse or assaults on staff, in the past financial year according to a new report.
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NewsCrime and Policing Bill progresses with second reading in parliament
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper recognised the unique challenges faced in crimes against rural communities, as the second reading of the Crime and Policing Bill progressed through parliament on Monday (March 10).
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NewsM1 services helps combat shortage of HGV parking spaces
New HGV parking facilities have been unveiled at Tibshelf Services on the M1 northbound.
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NewsHighland considers 24-hour trading after latest in series of break-ins
Tom Highland is considering operating one of his petrol stations 24 hours, after it was broken into over the weekend – the latest in a series of more than 20 incidents in the nine years that his business has owned the site.
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NewsTheft at record levels with 6.2m incidents a year in convenience stores
Operators of convenience stores – on forecourts and standalone – are facing a surge in crime, with 6.2 million incidents of theft at their sites in the past year.
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NewsHand car washes fined £2.9m in just three months for employing illegal workers
Hand car wash firms have been collectively fined just under £3m in three months for employing staff who do not have the right to work in the UK, Home Office figures have revealed.
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NewsTough-on-crime Bill starts path through Parliament
A Bill, which introduces a separate offence of assaulting a retail worker and removes the effective immunity for shop theft of £200 and below, has started its Parliamentary process to becoming law.
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NewsFuel thieves gamble on stealing less fuel on drive-offs
Fuel thieves are driving off with smaller amounts than previously, gambling that forecourt operators will not pursue them legally because of the lower value.
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NewsPRA puts forecourt crime at top of agenda
PRA chief executive Gordon Balmer believes a meeting with a group that links police and businesses to tackle crime will help to move the issue of fuel and other forecourt theft up the agenda.
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NewsRam-raid dents Dant’s development plans
Tom Dant believes that not everyone in the area got the message about him making Ulceby Cross Filling Station a 24-hour operation last October, as a gang of five ram-raided its Spar shop in the early hours of Saturday morning (January 11), presumably expecting the premises to be closed.
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Equipment NewsValli values Vars for parking revenue and £234,000 recovered losses
Top 50 Indie Valli Forecourts believes that it has been preventing £630,000 a year in drive-offs at its 16 forecourts since installing Vars automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology.
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NewsForecourt veteran calls for industry to unite and support family of drive-off victim
Industry stalwart Guy White is rallying the industry to raise money to support the family of a petrol station employee critically injured while trying to stop a drive-off.
