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NewsPayPoint teams up with LINK to offer ATM alternative
PayPoint has announced that it is working with LINK, the UK’s largest cash machine network, to pilot a new “cash over the counter” withdrawal service. The new service is being trialled at 15 locations this summer. Cardholders will be able to withdraw up to £100. Customers will insert their bank ...
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NewsBP wins fuel card approval for public sector vehicle fleet
BP has won the opportunity to bid for fuel card work across the UK’s public-sector vehicle fleet, which has an annual total demand of around 200 million litres of fuel. It been named as a Crown Commercial Services (CCS) supplier under the RM6000 Fuel Cards and Associated Services V Framework ...
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NewsSewell on the go offers local youngsters work experience
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has partnered with Work Insight, a project supporting students in secondary schools who have additional needs or at risk of becoming not in employment, education, or training, to offer work experience opportunities to young people. Ehab, who has autism, has been working with ...
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NewsLeader of smuggling gang jailed for seven years
A Leeds fraudster, who led a six-man tobacco smuggling gang in a conspiracy to put millions of illegal cigarettes on the streets, has been jailed for seven years. Discount furniture store owner, Geoffrey David Moon, of Thwaite Lane, Leeds, presided over a criminal gang which brought tobacco products worth more ...
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NewsGovernment boosts hydrogen funding by £20m
Energy and clean growth minister Claire Perry has announced a £20m funding boost to businesses embracing the potential for a future UK hydrogen economy. The announcement was made during a visit to Swindon’s Hydrogen Hub and Recycling Technologies. Hydrogen fuel is currently very costly to produce and transport and the ...
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NewsFour Top 50 Indie sites closed without notice
Four sites operated by Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal have been shut down without notice, amid reports the freeholder has fenced them off and begun removing pumps.The four sites are all branded Essar, and are in Stoke-on-Trent.Forecourt Trader was unable to contact Javid Iqbal for comment, but in a statement ...
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NewsMFG opens its first Post Office at Shell site in St Albans
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has opened the Post Office on its 438-strong UK network. Offering a seven-day a week Post Office service to forecourt customers and the local community, this new facility at the Shell King William Service Station in St Albans was officially opened ...
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NewsMan armed with claw hammer robs Sussex forecourt shop
Sussex police are seeking witnesses to a robbery at a petrol station in Henfield. Shortly before 6am on Tuesday 8 May, a member of staff at Shell in Golden Square was approached from behind by a masked man who was in possession of a claw hammer. He was threatened by ...
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NewsProposal that car washes should be licensed by GLAA
Proposals that car washes should be licensed by the Gangmasters & Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) have been welcomed by the PRA. The proposal came from the director of Labour Market Enforcement, Sir David Metcalf in his Strategy for 2018/19. The strategy sets out 37 recommendations to help stop the exploitation ...
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NewsPRA warns fuel prices could rise towards record levels
The PRA has warned that fuel prices could rise sharply, and could even head towards record levels, after president Trump’s decision to terminate the Iran nuclear agreement added to pressures driving up oil prices. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “Tensions in the Middle East were compounded with the news this ...
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NewsMFG/MRH deal good for fuel retail sector says property expert
The acquisition of MRH by MFG earlier this year could be good news for everyone in the fuel retailing sector, according to Adam Wadlow, partner at fuel and automotive property advisers Barber Wadlow, which has just published its latest Forecourt Property Market Update. “It shows that the independent dealer sector ...
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NewsJet adds Top 50 Indie sites to its network in the South East
Jet has strengthened its presence in the South East with the recruitment of three Top 50 Indie sites to its network. Supply contracts have recently been signed with Basildon Service Station in Reading and Brookside Filling Station in Hungerford, which are both in Berkshire, and Postcombe Service Station in Thame, ...
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NewsMan jailed for starting fire on forecourt and racial abuse
A man who claimed he had been short-changed after buying cigarettes from a petrol station in Salford, Greater Manchester, returned and started a fire risking an explosion, a court heard. Kamil Sciebior, 29, has been jailed for five years after admitting arson being reckless as to endanger life, which was ...
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NewsACS welcomes Welsh decision on deposit return scheme
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed the Welsh Government’s announcement that it will seek to work towards a UK-wide deposit return system for drinks containers in Wales. ACS is calling for detailed consideration of the role that retailers can play in such a scheme, including the challenges and ...
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NewsNew CEO appointed at Nisa after Co-op takeover
A new CEO has been appointed at Nisa Retail after the Co-op completed its acquisition on May 8. Former Tesco executive Ken Towle has taken over as Nisa’s new CEO from Arnu Misra who performed an interim CEO role that saw through the completion of the acquisition. Misra will remain ...
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NewsCar wash owner sentenced for tobacco tax fraud
A car wash owner who failed to pay £100,000 duty on more than 400,000 cigarettes has been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court. Pshtewan Sharef Ibrahim, 42, from Warrington, kept the illicit cigarettes at self-storage units in his hometown. The cigarettes were sniffed out by specially trained detector dogs during a ...
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NewsNissan to wind down diesel car sales in Europe
The diesel car sector has received another setback after Japanese carmaker Nissan announced it will gradually stop selling diesel cars in Europe. A Nissan spokeswoman said there would be a gradual withdrawal of diesel cars in Europe. Last month there were unconfirmed reports that Nissan would cut hundreds of jobs ...
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NewsMedia whips up a storm over pre-authorisation "charges"
Changes to pre-authorisation procedures for automated fuel pumps, which were agreed last year, have been splashed across newspapers and websites after a Facebook posting by an Asda customer. When a customer uses a card at a pay at pump facility, a pre-authorisation charge is applied. The money is not removed ...
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NewsNew car market bounces back with 10.4% growth in April
The UK new car market grew 10.4% in April, with 167,911 new units registered, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Demand was affected by a number of factors, including the timing of Easter, which meant two additional selling days this April, versus 2017, ...
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NewsProsecution of petrol stations for red diesel fraud is abandoned
An HM Customs & Excise (HMRC) prosecution of petrol station owners for red diesel fraud has been abandoned after a linked trial collapsed. The story was covered by the BBC on its website and on its news programmes on Sunday April 29. In its TV report it showed pictures of ...