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Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal signs up five sites to Essar
Top 50 Indie Javid Iqbal has signed up five of his sites to the Essar brand.The sites, which were previously with Esso and are located in Staffordshire and Derbyshire, opened under their new livery on March 30. The following day, a new Essar-branded station was commissioned in the West Midlands. ...
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Central C-Stores opens its 16th forecourt site
Palmer and Harvey-owned Central Convenience Stores has acquired its 16th forecourt with the purchase of Combe Martin Petrol Station in north Devon. The acquisition takes its total estate of stores to 116.Commercial estate agent, Charles Darrow, sold the business on behalf of Andy West, who is now concentrating on his ...
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Jos Richardson marks 125 years with new-look site
East Yorkshire-based Jos Richardson and Son marked 125 years in business with the official opening of its new-look service station and truck stop development at Goole on May 5.The family-run firm has invested in excess of £4m in the redevelopment of its flagship Goole site during the past four years, ...
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Blaze guts shop at MRH Mildenhall forecourt on A11
A shop has been gutted by a major fire on a site owned by Top 50 Indie MRH. The blaze broke out on April 8, at the Esso station on the A11 near Mildenhall, and the trunk road had to be closed while it was brought under control. MRH company ...
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NewsMaxol rewards team for high standard of service
Eugene McAuley and his staff at the Maxol Service Station at Draperstown, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, were recently recognised by Maxol for achieving Excellence in Customer Experience. As part of its Excellence Awards Programme, Maxol carries out ongoing recognition throughout the year for licensees and their staff. The Excellence ...
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NewsNew vehicles on UK roads hit record high
The number of all new vehicles taking to UK roads, including lorries and buses, has hit a record high, spurred on by April’s change to Vehicle Excise Duty for new cars, according to AA analysis. Quarterly figures for vehicles registered for the first time in Great Britain hit 959,100 between ...
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NewsPrison officer fined for supplying counterfeit tobacco
Imperial Tobacco has assisted Devon and Cornwall Police in securing the conviction of a prison officer who was attempting to smuggle counterfeit tobacco into HMP Dartmoor. Daryl Keenan, from Paignton, was arrested and charged in October last year after a routine staff search while entering HMP Dartmoor – a ‘smoke ...
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NewsProlific thieves convicted for stealing from forecourt shops
Two prolific shoplifters who targeted forecourt shop in St Albans and Borehamwood have both been sentenced to eight weeks in prison. Justin Sycamore, aged 38, and Simon Speer, aged 34, appeared Hatfield Remand Court on Monday, May 8 after pleading guilty to a number of thefts from shops in both ...
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NewsCertas rolls out cleaner diesel at Port of Liverpool
A state-of-the-art 24-hour HGV fuel station at the Port of Liverpool will become the first port in the UK to offer Shell GTL Fuel – which is claimed to be a cleaner alternative to conventional diesel fuel. Certas Energy, working in partnership with Peel Ports Group, opened the state-of-the-art site ...
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NewsLondon Transport tenders for hydrogen buses
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a tender for the bulk procurement of hydrogen fuel cell buses. Working in partnership with three other UK cities - Aberdeen, Birmingham, Dundee - TfL is inviting potential suppliers of fuel cell buses to join a framework for the supply of single and double ...
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NewsTaxi LPG conversions plan to tackle air pollution
Retrofitting black cabs to run on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is being considered as a key solution for confronting the UK’s air quality crisis, as part of the Government’s draft air quality plan which was published last week. As part of the new plan, being consulted on until June 15, ...
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NewsKay Group secures fourth new-to-industry site
Top 50 Indie The Kay Group has secured planning permission for its fourth new-to-industry site in 12 months. Work on Ellesmere Port Service Station, which will include the company’s first Costa Drive-Thru, is scheduled to start in June after the opening of a forecourt at Irlam, the group’s third new-to-industry ...
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NewsBrokers predict sales of diesel cars will decline
Nearly a third of brokers expect sales of diesel cars to decrease this year following media scares, according to a survey by Paragon Car Finance. Asked what impact recent calls for action on diesel vehicles would have on the market in 2017, 29% stated they expect a decrease in sales. ...
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NewsShell and BMW design new hydrogen dispenser
Shell and a BMW Group subsidiary, Designworks, have collaborated in the launch of a new hydrogen dispenser that is radically different to pumps for other road fuels. Oasis is a dispenser concept that departs from the “H” or “L” shaped fuel dispensers presently on the market. It introduces a new ...
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NewsRobbers leave explosives attached to cash machine
A “suspicious device” found attached to a cash machine on a forecourt in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, is believed to have been put there by robbers trying to blow it up. Police were called to the Gulf Petrol Station on Huddersfield Road at 6.55am on Tuesday May 9. The site was ...
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NewsCharges after queuing police spot suspicious activity
Two men have been charged with making off without payment, after police officers refuelling their patrol car spotted suspicious activity at the petrol station. As the two officers queued for their petrol at Leeds Road, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, just after 3pm on Friday May 5, a number of men were ...
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NewsOil 4 Wales invests £200k in Maesteg revamp
Fuel supplier and forecourt owner Oil 4 Wales has reopened its service station at Maesteg in South Wales after a £200,000 redevelopment. The major redevelopment saw a total redesign of the shop, including upgrading of tills, a bespoke state of the art wine section, and a full deli and bakery ...
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NewsMotorcycle sales down 16% in April
April marked a 16% decline in motorcycle sales with only 10,365 bikes registered – compared to 12,343 bikes put on the road in the same period last year, according to the latest Motor Cycle Industry Association figures for motorcycle registrations. Commenting on the figures, Stephen Latham, head of the National ...
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New car sales slump 20% following ’quiet’ April
New passenger car registrations fell by nearly 20% in April, with a total of 152,076 units registered, according to the latest figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Trading (SMMT). Year-to-date the market is still higher than last year by 1.1% with a total of 972,092 cars registered ...
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NewsMaxol opens largest-ever forecourt development
Maxol has opened the doors to its largest ever development in Northern Ireland at Tannaghmore, County Antrim. In a first for Northern Ireland and the UK and a forecourt exclusive for Maxol, the A26 Services has introduced Freshly Chopped, fast-food franchise, whose mission is to offer fresh and nutritious food ...