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NewsJTI removes 30th gantry for selling illegal tobacco
JTI has removed its tobacco gantry from Grover Superstore in Canterbury Avenue, Slough, following the decision taken by Slough Borough Council to revoke the store’s Premises Licence. Evidence presented to the council’s Licencing Sub-Committee by Slough Trading Standards showed repeated seizures of illegal tobacco. Charlie Cunningham-Reid, UK head of corporate ...
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NewsRobbers threaten forecourt staff and take money from tills
Police are appealing for information after the Nisa convenience store at the petrol station on Wilton Way in Eston, North Yorkshire, was robbed. The incident occurred on Saturday October 7, just after 8am, when two men walked into the shop and one of them was armed with a bladed weapon ...
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NewsKnife and crowbar used in robbery from Esso garage
Armed robbers threatened staff at a petrol station in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, with a crowbar and knife before making off with cash from the till. The robbery was at the Esso garage in Peterborough Road. A Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman said: “We were called at around 10.30pm on Friday, October 6 to ...
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NewsPolice commend taxi driver who tackled robbers
Nottinghamshire Police have commended a taxi driver for his bravery after two armed robbers he tackled at a Warsop petrol station were jailed for a combined ten years six months. Otis Kirby, 20, was locked up for five years and three months after pleading guilty to robbery and possession of ...
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NewsBP/M&S site opens in Southgate
Sixteen new jobs have been created with the opening of a new BP service station with M&S Simply Food on Oakleigh Road South, in Southgate, north London. The joint BP and Marks & Spencer development will offer motorists a wide range of M&S quality food alongside BP’s Wild Bean Café ...
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NewsThieves cause major damage to Tesco site to steal from ATM
West Yorkshire Police are appealing for information after an ATM at a petrol station was broken into in Dewsbury. The incident happened around 1.20am on Friday October 9 at the Tesco Express store on the Esso-branded forecourt at Wakefield Road in the Earlsheaton area of Dewsbury. The perpetrators are thought ...
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NewsFive arrests over illegal tobacco and alcohol
Five men have been arrested in Liverpool during raids linked to a suspected £100,000 tax fraud involving smuggled cigarettes, an illegal vodka factory and tax credits fraud. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers visited several addresses across Liverpool and Sefton, on Tuesday October 3 as part of an investigation into ...
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NewsHKS Retail listed in Sunday Times Top Track 250
Top 50 Indie HKS Retail, part of the HKS Holdings Limited group, is a new entrant this year in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 - the league table which ranks Britain’s private mid-market growth companies with the biggest sales. HKS Retail made its debut at number 103 ...
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NewsNisa board recommends £137.5m Co-op offer
The board of Nisa Retail Limited, the member-owned retail and wholesaling group, has unanimously recommended to its shareholders an offer of up to £137.5m from The Co-op Group. The offer, if successful, would bring Nisa members access to the Co-op range - including the Co-op own label - while retaining ...
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A tribute to Nick Lloyd
Family, friends and colleagues paid tribute to Nick Lloyd, former managing director of Symonds Forecourts Ltd, at his funeral in Sherborne St John, near Basingstoke, last month.He died suddenly at the age of 47, as he was embarking on new ventures in the convenience retailing sector, including a project with ...
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Essar UK plans co-owned site but slows growth
Essar UK has put the target for expansion of its retail network to 400 outlets back to five years. The news came shortly after the company revealed plans to open its first company-owned site. A spokesman said the company-owned site was a former Gulf forecourt which had been closed for ...
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Valero continues with its Supreme fuel promotion
Following the relaunch of Supreme fuel in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, Valero is now running its "Save 10p per litre on Supreme Fuel" promotion across the remaining areas of its network (Wales, the South West and the South East) for six weeks. Customers who buy Supreme receive ...
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Christie helps with funds for Notts forecourt deal
Christie Finance has helped a returning client with funding to acquire their latest petrol station, located in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire.Longdale Service Station is a long-established business with a loyal local customer base and was sold through Christie & Co. The new owners, Mr and Mrs Navanathan, already own Carter Lane Service ...
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PRA urges Chancellor not to raise fuel duty levels
The PRA has warned that the price differential between diesel and petrol is set to increase and urged the Chancellor not to penalise diesel drivers with higher duty levels in November’s Budget.PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: "The outlook for UK pump prices remains uncertain with changes to crude oil prices ...
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NewsSales of new diesel cars decline for sixth month
Plummeting sales of new diesel cars helped push the UK new car market to its sixth consecutive monthly decline in September, down 9.3% to 426,170 new units registered, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Diesel car sales were down 21.7%, while petrol cars ...
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Certas Energy buys its first three forecourts in England
Certas Energy has bought forecourt sites in England for the first time in a deal that will see 13mlpa of retail volume moving to Gulf from Texaco.It has struck a deal with Petromex Forecourt Services to acquire two sites, Millbrook Way in Preston and Canal Head in Ulverston, with a ...
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human trafficking campaignA campaign by the Scottish Government against human trafficking and modern slavery is highlighting that many unscrupulous hand car wash operations are involved. In Aberdeen screen cleans were offered at the Golden Square Car Park as part of the campaign to draw attention to the different industries in ...
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NewsBP reappoints DHL Supply Chain to manage logistics
DHL Supply Chain has been reappointed by BP to manage its UK logistics operations for its shops for an additional three years, making in excess of 92,000 deliveries a year to BP’s company owned forecourts across the country. The contract extension will see DHL continue to support BP’s UK fuels ...
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NewsWholesalers urge CMA to block Tesco-Booker deal
Seven of the UK’s leading wholesalers have written a joint letter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urging it to block the Tesco-Booker merger. The managing directors of Bestway, Bidfood, Confex, Landmark, Spar, Sugro and Today’s co-signed a letter, which was submitted to the CMA as part of its ...
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The two biggest indies buy out smaller groups
The two biggest companies in the Top 50 Indies both acquired other groups during September.Motor Fuel Group (MFG) expanded its network to 422 stations with the completed acquisition of four stations each from FW Kerridge and Burns & Co, and an exchange of contracts with fellow Top 50 Indie Manor ...