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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 ...
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NewsWeak pound pushing up the price for motorists filling up
Over the past year, UK drivers have suffered on average a 5.4ppl increase in pump prices as a consequence of the post-referendum weakening of the pound against the dollar, the latest AA Fuel Price Report has revealed. With a typical fuel tank holding 55 litres of fuel, the cost of ...
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NewsSuresite in deal to support Greenergy’s Esso dealers
Suresite has been appointed by Greenergy to provide wet-stock management across its Esso dealer network. The long-term arrangement is being rolled out and provides Esso dealers with access to the real-time solution, which was launched by Suresite in late 2016. “We are delighted to have secured this arrangement with Greenergy,” ...
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NewsNew-to-industry BP/M&S Simply Food site opens
BP has opened a service station and M&S Simply Food at a new-to-industry site at Aylsham, in Norfolk. Twenty-three new jobs have been created with the opening on Wednesday July 26 of the new site, next to a new roundabout on Burgh Road. The development, which cost nearly £2m, includes ...
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NewsBMW announces plan for all electric Mini to be made in UK
BMW Group has announced that it will be launching a new battery-electric Mini that will be made in the UK. The fully electric car will go into production in 2019, alongside the existing petrol and diesel internal combustion engine versions, and a plug-in hybrid. The electric Mini’s electric drivetrain will ...
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NewsPRA urges caution over Air Quality Plan
The PRA has given a cautious welcome to some of the measures in the government’s clean air strategy which was unveiled on Wednesday, and confirms it will ban the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars by 2040. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said he welcomed the pragmatic steps ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie Park Garage Group buys Bromley site
Top 50 Indie Park Garage Group has bought Tudor Autos, a BP-branded petrol filling station in Bromley, Kent. It was sold to the Bromley-based group following a confidential marketing campaign by specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, which reported the sale generated multiple offers in less than three weeks ...