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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, ...
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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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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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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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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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NewsOil4Wales secures £350,000 backing for site refurbishment
Oil4Wales has secured a £350,000 loan to refurbish and extend a former Texaco filling station at Nantycaws A48 near Carmarthen. Nantycaws Filling Station is on the eastbound carriageway of the main route from west Wales to Cardiff and Newport, and Oil4Wales founder and managing director Colin Owens believes it has ...
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NewsPolice release CCTV images after "despicable" armed robbery
Merseyside Police have released CCTV images of a suspect involved in an armed robbery. At around 8am on Saturday, 14 July, a man entered Ashcroft Service Station on Ashcroft Street in St Helens and made threats to a member of staff while in possession of a wooden handle before stealing ...
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NewsAmbulance service introduces hydrogen-electric vehicles
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) has introduced three new hydrogen-electric support vehicles to its transport fleet. The vans, which do not produce any emissions, are powered by an electric motor using energy from both the battery and a hydrogen fuel cell. The battery recharges from a power supply and ...
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NewsEG Group wins planning approval for Scottish scheme
The parent company of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages has won planning approval for a new petrol station in Forfar, Scotland, despite objections from a potential rival. EG Group plans to build a petrol station, retail unit, restaurant, drive-thru and HGV parking on the site next to Angus Council’s headquarters, ...
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NewsTesco petrol stations in Essex targeted in string of burglaries
Officers from Essex Police are investigating a string of burglaries at Tesco petrol stations. The first break-in occurred at the Tesco petrol station in Harlow on Friday August 3. A spokesman for the police service said: “We are investigating a burglary at a petrol station in Harlow. We received reports ...