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NewsEuro Garages wins planning consent for Sunderland KDRB
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages has won planning consent for a knockdown re-build of Barnes Service Station in Sunderland. A new convenience store will be built at the eight fuel pump forecourt, with the Spar store operating 24-hours a day. There will also be 23 parking spaces and electric car ...
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NewsEssar staff raise funds for local mental health charity
Employees at Essar’s Stanlow refinery recently celebrated their annual charity day with a donation to mental health charity Chapter. The company donated £7,500 to the Ellesmere Port-based organisation, which was also supported by employees fundraising an additional £1,300 through collections, a sum that will be matched by Essar and brings ...
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NewsCanadian company buys Top Oil in Irish Republic
Canadian-owned Irving Oil has signed agreements to acquire the Tedcastle group of companies, an Irish-based energy marketing and distribution organisation, which operates under the brand name Top Oil. Tedcastle owns a 55,000-tonne clean product terminal at Dublin Port, 20 inland depots, and supplies 200 dealer and company-owned forecourts across the ...
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NewsAttempt to steal ATM causes major damage to BP site
A BP garage at Eaton Socon in Cambridgeshire has suffered major damage after thieves attempted to rip out its cash machine. The raid left one side of the building smashed open. A spokesman for Cambridgeshire police said: “We were called at about 3am today (21 August) with reports of an ...
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NewsValli Forecourts applies to build filling station in Burnley
Top 50 Indie Valli Forecourts has applied for planning permission to build a petrol station and convenience store on a former primary school site in Burnley. The Dewsbury-based company has applied for consent for a petrol filling station, including a canopy, fuel islands and underground tanks, together with four jet ...
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NewsACS welcomes comments on rates by Liberal Democrat leader
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed comments from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable MP on the need to reform the business rates system. Speaking ahead of the launch of a report on the future of business rates later this month, he outlined his support for a commercial ...
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NewsEG Group installs France’s first very high power rapid chargers
Euro Garages’ parent company EG Group has installed what it claims are France’s first very high power rapid chargers for electric vehicles at two of its sites. In partnership with IONITY and Vinci Autoroutes it has installed six 350 kW chargers, capable of recharging vehicles in less than 20 minutes, ...
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NewsThieves rip cash machine out of Tesco Express forecourt building
Thieves have ripped an ATM from the wall of a Tesco Express on a forecourt in Selby, North Yorkshire. The raiders used a fork lift truck to tear the cash machine out of the wall and lift it into a van. They then headed off in the direction of Burn, ...
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NewsLocal authorities opting for fossil fuels while penalising motorists
Campaigners for E10 petrol have published a report showing that local authorities nationwide are continuing to opt for diesel and petrol vehicles, even though some are penalising private motorists for making the same choices. The report, commissioned by industry members of the All Party Parliamentary Group for British Bioethanol, shows ...
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NewsEuro Garages applies for planning consent at motorway junction
Euro Garage’s parent company EG Group has applied for planning permission for a new petrol station, a drive-thru coffee shop and two drive-thru restaurants just off Junction 1 of the M58 near Maghull, in Merseyside. The scheme on a 4.4-acre site would include a 5,100sq ft petrol filling station with ...
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NewsAssistant taken to hospital with suspected fractures after attack
An attack on a staff member at a petrol station in Newcastle has left him with a suspected broken nose and cheek bone. Northumbria Police officers are appealing for information after the staff member was attacked with a traffic cone at the Shell Garage on Great North Street in Gosforth ...
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NewsEssar signs up 53rd site to its UK network
Loggerheads Garage, near Mold in North Wales, has become the latest petrol station to join the Essar brand, making it the 53rd site in the Essar UK network. The family business is run by Brian and Adi Robinson, who plan to invest later this year in expansion of their Spar ...
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News£990,000 Lincolnshire Co-op project nears completion
Lincolnshire Co-op will be closing its Gibbet Nook Food Store and Filling Station between August 20-25 as it puts the final touches to a £990,000 redevelopment of the site. It is nearing the end of a transformation programme including improvements to the forecourt and a new purpose-built food store creating ...
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NewsGulf Endurance petrol fuels mpg record
Former world championship rally driver and team manager turned economy driving specialist Andy Dawson shattered all the records in the Layer Marney Cup, the historic Essex-based fuel trial which was first run in 1914. The event was revived in 2015 and now takes place annually. Running on Gulf Endurance petrol, ...
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NewsGwent forecourts help police tackle illegal off-road bikers
Gwent Police is setting up a partnership with local petrol station as part of a new strategy to remove illegal off-road bikers from the streets. Under the scheme, forecourt staff will refuse to allow illegal bikers to fill up, and will report them to the police. Inspector Martin Cawley explained: ...
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NewsScientists develop liquid battery to speed up EV charging
Scottish scientists have developed a liquid battery for electric cars which could be charged in seconds by filling it up at a service station. A team at the University of Glasgow have developed a prototype that uses a metal oxide – described by researchers as an “exotic rust” – that ...
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NewsDevon forecourt attracts new customers with rapid chargers
A service station in Devon has widened its customer base after it installed rapid electric car chargers. Barnstaple-based Taw Garages, which also has a Ford dealership on site, is working with electric vehicle charging firm, InstaVolt, to ensure electric drivers can charge up on its forecourts. The rapid charging stations ...
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NewsCertas Energy appoints head for its company owned network
Certas Energy has appointed Scott Harris to head its company owned network of forecourts. He rejoins Certas Energy after two years with Mitie, the international facilities management company where he was senior finance business partner. Harris is a management accountant and has 10 years of experience within the oil industry, ...
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NewsApplegreen adds to estate in US with acquisition of seven sites
Applegreen’s US arm has bought seven forecourt sites with S-Mart branded convenience stores in South Carolina, and a wholesale fuels distribution business, from Carolina Convenience Corporation. The S-Mart stores offer BP- and Exxon-branded fuel as well as a full array of convenience merchandise, and one of the stores is co-branded ...
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NewsScottish Jet site completes £75,000 redevelopment
A Scottish forecourt is celebrating the company’s 50th anniversary after completing a £75,000 redevelopment of the site and renewing its five-year contract with Jet. Jet Cooper Brothers in Newmains, Lanarkshire, has installed five new Tokheim Quantium 510 fuel pumps and a high speed diesel pump for HGVs, upgraded its tank ...