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NewsRontec objects to Touts’ forecourt plans
Top 50 Indie Rontec has weighed in to a row over plans for a new forecourt development in the village of Cleeve in Somerset. Rontec operates an Esso forecourt on the outskirts of Congresbury, which is just up the road from Cleeve. Former Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Touts ...
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NewsTexaco re-brand for Blackpool service station
A Lancashire site based in the seaside town of Blackpool has recently moved to the Texaco brand after years with BP. Ansdell Service Station, in Lytham St Annes, which has seen fuel volumes increase since the rebrand, stocks all four grades of fuel including Supreme diesel and Supreme unleaded and ...
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NewsCMA launches first phase of inquiry into Sainsbury’s/Asda merger
The Competition and Markets Authority has confirmed the start of a formal investigation into the proposed merger between J Sainsbury plc and Asda Group Ltd, which was announced on April 30. Since then it has been gathering information to start the first phase of the formal investigation, which will look ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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NewsMorrisons includes new petrol station in north-east scheme
Plans for a new edge of town retail park including a petrol station, at Amble in Northumberland, have been unveiled by supermarket group Morrisons and development company Arch.The plans comprise a 25,000sq ft Morrisons food store and petrol station, alongside a number of other national retailers and a drive-thru facility.In ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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, ...