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NewsPeregrine Retail applies for planning consent on new-build site
Peregrine Retail has lodged a planning application for a site at Frome in Somerset as it aims to double its estate of Shell-branded forecourts twinned with Budgens stores with five new-build developments over the next two years. The proposed development, at Commerce Park in Frome, is for a large Budgens ...
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NewsApplegreen promotes internal candidate to finance chief
Applegreen has announced the promotion of Niall Dolan to chief financial officer effective from July 1. Dolan is currently head of corporate finance and treasury with Applegreen having joined the business in May 2015. Prior to joining Applegreen Dolan was CFO of ISS Ireland for five years. He holds a ...
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NewsNew service station opens after investment in Ballymena
A new petrol station and convenience store has opened outside Ballymena, in Northern Ireland, creating 16 jobs. The six figure investment was part supported by Danske Bank. In January 2016, Donnellys of Rathkenny purchased a former car showroom that had been unused for five years. Planning permission was granted a ...
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NewsInvestment by convenience sector rising, says ACS
The latest figures from the Association of Convenience Stores have shown an increase in investment over the last quarter, but concerns about the impact of rising employment costs. Convenience stores across the UK invested £193m in their businesses between March and May, which is an increase on both the previous ...
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NewsChartman celebrates opening at Winterbourne Abbas
The Chartman Group’s latest acquisition, Winterbourne Abbas Services in Dorset, celebrated with locals and visitors at an opening event last weekend. Chartman director Clive Sheppard said: “The star attraction was the Red Bull soapbox simulator, giving visitors the thrill of a downhill race in a bathtub! “With classic cars, Spar ...
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NewsHMRC arrests six in suspected £440m fraud
Five men and a woman have been arrested in the West Midlands and the South of England as part of a joint investigation by UK and French authorities into a suspected £440m alcohol fraud and money laundering.More than 100 officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), with officers from the ...
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News£9,000 in cash stolen from Northumberland service station
Northumbria Police are appealing for information following a burglary in Blyth on Monday, June 12. It happened at around 11.20am at the petrol station on Station Road, Bebside. A man walked into the shop, leaned over the counter and took a bag of cash containing over £9,000. The man then ...
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NewsKay Group opens site with first Gregg’s drive-thru
Top 50 Indie The Kay Group has opened its 14th Texaco-branded service station. Its Irlam site in Salford is another new build for The Kay Group and features bakery chain Gregg’s first drive-through. This is the third Kay Group Texaco-branded new build to have opened in the past year, adding ...
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NewsEuro Garages submits plans to build European HQ in Blackburn
Euro Garages has submitted plans to build a new European headquarters in its home town of Blackburn. The scheme would comprise a three-storey office block and two drive thru restaurants in Haslingden Road, Blackburn, close to the hospital and its existing head office. The plans include enough parking spaces for ...
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NewsDorset service station sale expected to attract major interest
A high volume service station and convenience store that has just come to the market is expected to attract a wide range of interest, according to its agents. Hinton Service Station in Christchurch, Dorset, has come to the market through specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co. The forecourt is ...
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NewsMaxol opens first Asian cuisine restaurant
Irish forecourt and convenience retailer Maxol, has opened its first Asian cuisine restaurant Kanoodle, along with its fourth Freshly Chopped, the heathy fast food franchise, at the newly refurbished service station at Lucan Road.Maxol has extended its relationship with Brian Lee and Andy Chen of award-winning franchise Freshly Chopped, who ...
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NewsTesco fined £8m for petrol leak from service station
Tesco has been fined £8m after a massive leak of petrol from one of its service stations. The Environment Agency said 23,500 litres of petrol escaped from a tank over a 29-hour period in Haslingden, east Lancashire, in 2014. The firm’s “recklessness” resulted in homes being evacuated, residents suffering sickness, ...
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NewsEuro Garages parent in deal to buy 1,176 Italian sites
Euro Garages’ parent company, Intervias Group, has reached an agreement with Esso Italiana – an ExxonMobil company – for the purchase of 1,176 Esso-branded service stations, located in several Italian regions. A long-term branded fuel supply agreement will retain the Esso fuel brand. The purchase is subject to competition authority ...
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NewsGang tapping into pipelines stole fuel worth over £1m, court told
A gang stole more than £1m of fuel from the network of underground pipes linking refineries and terminals across the UK, a court has been told. The gang are said to have siphoned off petrol, diesel and aviation fuel from the pipelines in Kent, Essex, Hampshire, Northamptonshire and Cheshire. Roger ...
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NewsBig four supermarkets cut up to 2ppl off fuel prices
The big four supermarkets have all announced cuts of up to 2ppl in the price of unleaded petrol and diesel. Asda was the first to announce the cut on Thursday June 15 saying it would apply from the next day, but Tesco implemented its cut from Thursday afternoon, with Sainsbury’s ...
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NewsTobacco smugglers sentenced for evading excise duty
Three men, who were caught supplying or receiving almost half a million smuggled cigarettes in Surrey, have been sentenced for evading more than £115,000 in excise duty. One of the men, Dominik Mrzyglod, 38, was jailed for four years earlier this year for his role in this crime, and for ...
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NewsMaxol introduces customer feedback system
Irish forecourt and convenience retailer Maxol has partnered with TruRating in the Irish Republic to launch a new way for customers to provide feedback at the time of their visit. TruRating comes into operation as customers are about to pay, with a single question popping up on the payment terminal ...
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NewsTwo men prosecuted for multiple drive-offs in Coventry
Two men have been prosecuted for stealing fuel from petrol stations in Coventry by driving off without paying. Adam Wilson and Gary Pritchards, both from Nuneaton, admitted stealing the fuel in April this year when they appeared at Coventry Magistrates’ Court. Wilson, 32, of Mancetter Road, pleaded guilty to three ...
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NewsBOSS Forecourt Crime Index hits highest-ever reading
An index measuring the level of crime on forecourts has hit its highest ever reading, according to BOSS (British Oil Security Syndicate). The latest BOSS Forecourt Crime Index for the first quarter of 2017 (January to March) has shown it has risen by seven points to 104, compared the previous ...
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NewsUKPIA appoints new director general
Oil industry body UKPIA (UK Petroleum Industry Association) has announced that director general Chris Hunt will be retiring in November after 20 years in the post, and that it has recruited a successor. Paul Bray, UKPIA president and Valero’s director, European government and public affairs, said: “I am very pleased ...