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Retailers urged to prepare for new £1 coin
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is encouraging retailers to ensure that their stores are ready for the introduction of the new £1 coin on March 28. ACS took part in a roundtable meeting on Tuesday February 28 with Treasury minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe, to report on the levels of readiness ...
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PRA urges rates concessions for forecourts
The PRA has urged the government to extend any concessions on business rates to the forecourt sector after suggestions that measures to support small businesses, especially those involved in hospitality, will be included in the March Budget. PRA chairman Brian Madderson commented: “The number of independent forecourt operators has collapsed ...
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Independents closing price gap on supermarkets
Independent dealers have been praised by the AA for seizing the chance to undercut the fuel prices of the Big Four in its latest Fuel Price Report. It says: “Driver confidence in supermarkets as the bastions of cheapest pump prices has been rocked over the past month. The gap between ...
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House of Lords debates parking changes
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has briefed peers ahead of a debate in the House of Lords on a new Bill which would require local authorities to consult with community stakeholders before putting up parking charges in their area. The Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill also contains provisions ...
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NewsCar makers promote low-emission vehicles
UK car makers demonstrated their commitment to developing the latest low emission vehicles with a special display in London this week. Set against the backdrop of London’s Tower Bridge, 26 vehicles from 16 different brands underlined the diversity of alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) now on sale across the UK. There ...
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Euro Garages buys four more High Noon forecourt sites
Euro Garages has bought four more forecourt sites from the stricken former Top 50 Indie High Noon Stores, which went into administration in January. Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has facilitated the completion of the sale of a group of four leasehold petrol forecourt sites in the South ...
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MacDonald voices concerns over business rates
Ramsay MacDonald, retail director of Certas Energy, has voiced his concerns following the government’s business rate announcement this week. Certas Energy is the largest supplier to independent fuel retailers in Britain, with more than 150 depots, nearly 1,000 tankers and 2,500 employees serving more than 1,200 retail outlets nationwide. “It ...
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Cash machine blown up at Surrey service station
Detectives investigating after an ATM was blown up at a Surrey petrol station and are appealing for anyone who heard or saw anything suspicious to come forward. Thieves took a quantity of money from the ATM at the Texaco petrol station on Dovers Green Road, Woodhatch, at 4.29am on Tuesday ...
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NewsPolice release CCTV images after robbery
Police officers investigating a robbery at a petrol station in Sheffield, have released CCTV images in connection with the incident.At about 4.40am on Friday February 18, a man is said to have entered the Texaco service station on City Road in the Arbourthorne area and threatened staff with what is ...
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NewsTexaco relaunches Supreme fuel with 10ppl off promotion
Texaco Supreme will be relaunched in the UK on Monday March 6 with a “Save 10p per litre on Supreme Fuel” promotion across 100 sites in the North West. Running for six weeks to April 16, customers buying Supreme fuel will receive 10 Star Rewards points per litre, equivalent to ...
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Topaz and McDonald’s team up for motorway services
Topaz and McDonald’s are to create 230 new jobs through the creation of two new motorway service areas (MSAs) in Carlow and Fermoy in the Irish Republic. Topaz Junction 5, on the M9 motorway between Dublin and Waterford, Co. Carlow is due to open in March 2017, and the Fermoy ...
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NewsGovernment to force service stations to offer hydrogen
The government is going ahead with plans to give it powers to force “large fuel retailers” and operators of motorway service areas to provide electric charging points and hydrogen refuelling facilities. The Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill, which has just been published, would give the Government the power to compel ...
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NewsShell opens its first UK hydrogen refuelling station
Shell has launched its first hydrogen refuelling station in the UK at its Cobham service station on the M25. The new hydrogen station has been supplied by ITM Power and is the first fully branded and public hydrogen refuelling site in the UK, and is the first of three sites ...
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New national forecourt crime initiative launched
The Home Office, fuel retailers and police have come together to tackle the £36m annual cost of fuel theft on the UK’s petrol forecourts. The impact that fuel theft is having on the sector has sparked industry groups, including the PRA, Association of Convenience Store (ACS) and the Downstream Fuel ...
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London mayor confirms charge for most polluting vehicles
London mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed that a £10 toxic “T-Charge”, for the most polluting vehicles, will start in central London on October 23 this year.The new emissions levy will apply to motorists who own vehicles that do not meet Euro 4 standards – typically those diesel and petrol vehicles ...
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£4m funding for road technology announced
The Government has awarded £4m to local authorities for technology projects that will cut congestion, speed up journeys and clean up the environment. Apps that notify motorists of congestion and free parking spaces, and real time journey information for visually impaired passengers, are among projects that will receive a share ...
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11 arrested over £12m illicit tobacco plot
Eleven men have been arrested as a suspected illicit tobacco factory was dismantled in north-west England by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The arrests were made during 17 simultaneous searches across north-west England and Scotland. HMRC found residential premises, farms, self-storage sites and a disused public house were being used ...
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PRA holds meeting in Northern Ireland
The PRA will be holding a “Live and Local” meeting in Northern Ireland next month, at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast on March 9.The meeting will be taking place at the hotel at Upper Newtownards Road, BT4 3LP, with registration from 10am and is due to close at 2pm.It includes ...
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Forecourts leading a food-to-go trend
Forecourts and motorway service stations are at the forefront in one of the top trends in food to go, according to Gavin Rothwell, senior retail insight manager at grocery research organisation IGD. One of the trends he identifies is a move to target new locations. He said: “Many food-to-go specialists ...
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HMRC calls for tougher penalties for illegal tobacco
People who smuggle, distribute and sell illicit tobacco could be hit by a fourfold increase in fines together with tough new civil penalties, as part of plans to crackdown on the smuggling of illicit tobacco. New proposals, published in a consultation by HMRC, range from penalties of up to 400% ...