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Make motorway service areas better says minister
Transport minister John Hayes has reiterated his call for better designed motorway service areas (MSAs) and called on them to display more local character and food.Speaking at the Backing Beauty reception, he said: "It is my firm belief that MSAs should support local independent businesses, source locally produced food and ...
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Shell and Allego unveil their first fast charging sites
Shell and Dutch charging point operator Allego have revealed Greater London and Derby in the UK, and Randstad in the western part of the Netherlands, as the locations where the first fast chargers for electric vehicles will be installed at selected Shell service stations.Anja van Niersen, CEO of Allego, said: ...
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Chartman gets go ahead for HGV facility
West Country Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has won planning permission for a new HGV forecourt at its flagship Winning Post site on the A38 at Haldon Hill in Devon. The proposed development will enhance the existing facility by utilising spare land and adding additional filling points. Chartman has worked ...
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Ram raiders run off after unsuccessful ATM raid
Ram raiders in balaclavas attempted to steal a cash machine from a petrol station in Essex using a stolen flat-bed lorry.They struck at about 1.50am on July 20, at Whitecourt Service Station in London Road, Black Notley, which is one of 11 sites owned by Top 50 Indie Refuel & ...
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Law could cost £250m
Property expert Rapleys has warned that proposed legislation in the Queen’s Speech could heap costs of £250m on operators of petrol filling stations.The proposed Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill is intended to encourage innovation and investment, and will require ’large’ fuel retailers and motorway service stations to install electric charging ...
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NewsRAC pothole survey finds UK roads are deteriorating
The quality of the UK’s roads is worsening, according to data from the RAC’s Pothole Index, which shows there has been a 31% increase in pothole-related faults attended by its patrols in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the same period last year. Between April and June RAC patrols ...
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NewsHigh prices at motorway service stations criticised
Motorway service stations have been accused of profiteering after a survey of prices at 21 sites by insurance company Admiral. The most expensive basket, made up of typical purchases at services was found in the South West where the total cost came to £15.78, compared with the cheapest in the ...
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NewsMen armed with crowbar rob Worcestershire forecourt
West Mercia police officers are appealing for witnesses to a robbery at a petrol station in Great Witley, Worcestershire. It happened at around 3am on Tuesday 1 August at the Euro Garages site on Worcester Road. Two men wearing masks and armed with a crowbar are reported to have gone ...
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NewsMorrisons revives Safeway brand in agreement to supply McColl’s
McColl’s Retail Group has reached a deal for Wm Morrison Supermarkets to supply its entire estate, which includes seven forecourts among its 1,300 convenience stores, and 350 newsagents. The deal will provide McColl’s with fresh food and grocery through the relaunched Safeway brand, which McColl’s will have exclusively for a ...
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NewsGovernment allocates £75m for highways maintenance
Councils in England have been awarded funding to refurbish bridges, improve junctions and boost flood defences as part of a multi-million pound government investment announced by transport minister Jesse Norman. Nineteen projects across the country will receive a share of £75m for essential road maintenance. Local authorities were challenged to ...
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NewsEC approves deal for 1,176 Italian sites by Euro Garages’ parent
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of 1,176 Italian fuel stations by Euro Garages’ parent company Intervias Group. The deal with Esso Italiana – an ExxonMobil company – includes a long-term branded fuel supply agreement to retain the Esso fuel brand. The deal was announced in June and was ...
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NewsMRH adds a further two sites with South Yorkshire acquisition
The UK’s largest independent service station operator MRH has added a further two sites to its estate with the acquisition of Mitha Forecourts, based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Mitha Forecourts comprises two Shell-branded service stations: Hoyland Common, an 800sq ft site in Hoyland; and Hilltop, a 500sq ft site in ...
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NewsMRH rolls out pilots for new formats to three more sites
MRH has opened three further sites as part of its trial of a number of new service station store formats and customer offers across the UK. The developments – at Downfields, Cambridgeshire; Stanway, Essex; and Hatton Cross, London – are part of MRH’s wider strategy to invest in its service ...
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NewsProposals to relax rules on drivers of electric vans
Changes to driver licensing rules will make it easier for van drivers to switch to electric vehicles, the government has announced today (28 July 2017). Van drivers will be able to operate heavier electric or gas-powered vehicles without having to apply for a new licence, as part of moves to ...
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NewsCall for funding equality for hydrogen and electric
The Government will not meet its target of 65 operational hydrogen refuelling stations by 2020 unless funding is increased, one of the main companies involved in the sector has warned. ITM Power, which supplied the equipment for Shell’s hydrogen refuelling site at its Cobham services on the M25 (above), has ...
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NewsMastermind of pipeline breaches found guilty
An Essex man who orchestrated the theft of hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel from an underground pipeline in Kent has been found guilty following a trial. Roger Gull was part of a criminal operation which involved drilling into high pressured pipelines to steal fuel worth millions of pounds. ...
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NewsWelding equipment used in attack on forecourt ATM
A criminal used welding equipment in an attempt to break into a forecourt cash machine and then fled when it caught fire yards from the pumps. The attack happened overnight at the Jet-branded Chidswell Service Station on Leeds Road in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on Wednesday July 26. Chris Cundall, who ...
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NewsChartman wins planning approval for HGV forecourt
West Country Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has won planning permission for a new HGV forecourt at its flagship Winning Post site on the A38 at Haldon Hill site (above), in Devon. The proposed development will enhance the existing facility by utilising spare land and adding additional fill points. Chartman ...
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NewsMPs call for tighter restrictions than in Air Quality Plan
A cross party group of MPs and Lords have called on the Government to adopt stronger proposals on air quality than the ones it outlined earlier this week. Following publication of the Government’s Air Quality Plan, which would ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040, a ...
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NewsDerby-based tobacco smugglers jailed after HMRC raid
The leaders of a cigarette smuggling gang, who evaded almost £1.2m in taxes, have been jailed after they were caught with more than three million illegal cigarettes. Derby men Alan Rashid, 33, and Goran Mohamed Ahmed, 34, masterminded the operation to smuggle and distribute illegal cigarettes over a four-year period ...