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NewsSmugglers caught with one million illicit cigarettes sentenced
Three Londoners caught with more than one million illicit cigarettes, worth £310,000 in lost duty to the UK public purse, have been sentenced. Zana Osman, 37, from North Finchley, Piotr Zwolinski, 45, of Wembley, and Halkwat Walli, 34, originally from Iraq, were caught in Bedford with 1.15 million illicit cigarettes ...
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NewsKnife-wielding robber strikes at Scottish site
Police are appealing for witnesses after an armed robbery at an MRH site in Scotland. A man armed with a knife demanded cash and cigarettes from an assistant at the Esso garage on Stonelaw Road, Rutherglen, in South Lanarkshire, at around 4.55am on Sunday January 21. The robber is described ...
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NewsMFG appoints new retail director
Top 50 Indie MFG has appointed Paul Dennis as its new retail director. Paul, who will be responsible for improving MFG’s retail range and customer offer, has had a varied 30-year career in retail, working with some of the UK’s leading names including Sainsbury’s, Asda, Central England Co-operative and most ...
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NewsRoll-out of chargers to MFG sites to reach 60 by end of March
ChargePoint Services and Motor Fuel Group (MFG) have reported promising early results for their partnership for provide widespread electric vehicle charging across UK forecourts.With 14 tri-connector rapid chargers already installed at MFG forecourts, driver usage is rising. With a further 20 being built in January, 25 programmed to follow in ...
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NewsEG Group becomes Esso’s largest retail customer
Euro Garages parent EG Group is set to become Exxon Mobil’s largest retail fuels customer following its latest deal with the oil giant. It has announced it will convert several hundred filling stations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg (Benelux) to ExxonMobil’s Esso brand. Currently it has a network of ...
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DfT drops proposal to extend time before first MoT
Ministers have decided to maintain the period before a car’s first MOT test at three years. The decision comes after a Department for Transport (DfT) consultation last year to consider changing the wait before the first test to four years. Most responses to the consultation were against the proposals on ...
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NewsMRH unveils plans for KDRB of Oxford BP site
MRH has applied for planning permission for a KNRB of its BP site at Cowley in Oxford. The proposal is for the complete demolition of the existing site, including its sales building, six pump islands, removal of LPG tanks and underground fuel tanks. It would result in the removal of ...
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NewsBuoyant forecourt property prices set to continue
Bouyancy in the forecourt property market is likely to continue well into 2018, although a market peak at some point in the year would not be surprising, according to Steve Rodell, managing director – retail, at Christie & Co, which has just published its annual Business Outlook report. Following an ...
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NewsPhase out of petrol and diesel cars may be earlier
The government may have to phase out sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans earlier than its target date of 2040, according to a watchdog set up by Parliament. The Committee on Climate Change has reviewed the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy and reported that it in order to ...
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NewsCostco seeks consent for Southampton site
US warehouse club giant Costco has applied for planning permission to build a petrol station (PFS) in the car park of its Southampton outlet. Costco Wholesale sells fuel at discount prices at its 12 sites across the UK, but the forecourts are only open to members. In its application Costco ...
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NewsRetailer jailed for three years for tobacco offences
A retailer has been sentenced to three years in prison for a number of offences connected with the sale of fake cigarettes and tobacco. Karim Heabah, 27, the owner of Baghdad Mini Market in Page Hall, Sheffield, pleaded guilty to the charge of fraudulent evasion of duty of tobacco products ...
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NewsACS calls for transparency in Welsh rates consultation
ACS has responded to the Welsh Government consultation on reforming the business rates appeals system, calling for greater transparency for the data used to arrive at valuations and warning against repeating the new Check, Challenge, Appeal appeals system in England. The Welsh Government’s consultation aims to reduce speculative appeals and ...
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NewsHuman trafficking arrest at car wash
A man has been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after a raid on a car wash business on Old Kent Road in London. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service in Southwark, along with investigating officers from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA), executed a warrant at the premises ...
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NewsBestway Wholesale takes over P&H’s van sales
Bestway Wholesale has announced that it will to start up a new van sales operation in light of P&H’s Snacksdirect and Sweetsdirect businesses entering into administration. The van sales business will service more than 20,000 retail customers with a fleet of 180 vans that Bestway has acquired from P&H’s administrators. ...
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NewsMRH renews membership of BOSS
MRH, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has renewed its membership of BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, to maintain its use of the BOSS Payment Watch debt recovery scheme. MRH joined BOSS in 2013 and the new agreement will see 475 MRH sites throughout England, Scotland and ...
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NewsCouncils reject ministers’ calls to provide chargers
Local councils cannot take on responsibility for providing electric charging facilities, according to the Local Government Association (LGA). After ministers criticised councils for not taking up funding for charging facilities, LGA transport spokesman Martin Tett suggested the private sector had to take the lead. He said: “Councils are keen to ...
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NewsRobbers take cigarettes and cash from Wigan forecourt
An appeal for witnesses has been issued by Greater Manchester Police after staff at a Wigan petrol station were robbed on the night of Monday January 15. Police say two men went into the Esso garage, in Woodhouse Lane, between 9pm and 9.10pm. The pair escaped with a quantity of ...
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NewsThieves steal vintage pump from outside Shropshire garage
West Mercia Police have reported that a vintage petrol pump was stolen from a garage in Prees Heath, Whitchurch, Shropshire, at the start of the month. The 1940s item featured an Esso bowl and formed part of a display that had been beside the business for 15 years. It was ...
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Ashford site receives a £2m-plus investment
A forecourt has re-opened with a new Budgens store in Ashford, Kent, after an investment of more than £2m by local businessman Kanagaratnam Rajamenon.He took over the site in Willesborough last August, and has invested in new petrol tanks, an extended canopy and extra pumps. Further investment is expected, which ...
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NewsACS welcomes extension of plastic bag charge to small shops
The government’s decision to extend the 5p charge on single use plastic carrier bags to all retailers in England has been welcomed by the Association of Convenience Stores. The move was part of a long-term plan to protect the environment announced by the Prime Minister, including measures to reduce plastic ...