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Drivers cutting mileage due to higher fuel prices
A quarter of drivers (24%) are restricting their car use and one in seven (14%) is cutting back on non-fuel spending after average UK petrol prices rose to 120ppl and diesel to 122ppl at the beginning of February. A Populus survey of 20,055 AA members shows young drivers are suffering ...
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Canadians take over Greenergy
Greenergy, the UK’s largest supplier of road fuels, has reached an agreement for Canadian company Brookfield Business Partners to take over the business with the aim of accelerating growth. Existing Greenergy management shareholders will invest alongside Brookfield Business Partners and will retain a 15% share in the business. As part ...
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EG buys Little Chef and High Noon
Euro Garages has sealed a deal to buy the Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants, previously owned by the Kout Food Group, which bought the chain in 2013 for £15m. A spokesperson for Intervias, parent company of Euro Garages, said: "We’ve completed the acquisition of two companies from the Kout ...
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Rates hikes could wipe out businesses
Huge hikes in business rates bills have provoked protests from forecourt owners across the UK, with a Jet dealer in Scotland warning his business could be wiped out after his rates were more than tripled. Many business sectors have been calling for a reform of the business rates system with ...
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BOSS recovers £3m BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has now recovered more than £3m on behalf of fuel retailers who are members of its Payment Watch scheme. This helps retailers reduce losses from people claiming to have no means of payment. Attacker jailed A man whose attack on ...
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London borough invests in charging points
Islington Council is aiming to become one of the leading boroughs in cleaning up London’s air quality by installing more than 100 roadside electric charging points. The fast-charging facilities are intended to encourage take-up of electric vehicles (EVs) across the borough, helping combat CO2 emissions and diesel exhaust fumes. A ...
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Bid to get duty paid on fuel receipts
A Bill requiring fuel receipts to show the amount of duty paid has been given its first reading in the House of Commons. The changes outlined in the Vehicle Fuel (Publication of Tax Information) Bill, which is promoted by FairFuelUK, would enable motorists to see how much tax they are ...
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Westmorland moves to augment management
Top 50 Indie Westmorland has announced it has recruited a new chief executive as it unveiled its annual results.Pre-tax profit was up 69% to £6.1m for the year to June 2016, compared with £3.6m the previous year.Turnover, which included the first full year of trading at Gloucester Services, was up ...
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Police investigate assault on forecourt
Humberside Police are appealing for the victim of an unreported robbery on a forecourt in Grimsby on Sunday 26 February to come forward and contact them. At around 1.50am, the unknown man was on the forecourt of the Esso Petrol Station in Albion Street when he was assaulted by an ...
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Gunfire as Flying Squad arrest robbers
A shot was fired and a Taser discharged as two men were arrested by Flying Squad officers after a raid on a van delivering cash to a Shell service station on February 27. Police have said they could not say whether the shot was fired at one of the robbers ...
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Think hard about diesel warns transport secretary
The transport secretary has warned that drivers considering buying diesel cars should take a “long, hard think”. Chris Grayling made the remarks to the Daily Mail, which said the government was considering a scrappage scheme for older diesel cars. He told the Mail: “People should take a long, hard think ...
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NewsTop 50 Indies increase share of UK forecourts to 26%
The companies that make up Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies now account for 26% of the forecourts in the entire UK market. Editor Merril Boulton told an audience of leading retailers at the 2017 Top 50 Indies Dinner that between them they added 99 sites during 2016, taking the total ...
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Traffic figures topped record levels in 2016
Traffic was at a record high in the year ending December 2016, according to provisional estimates just released by the Department for Transport.The provisional figure, of 320.5 billion vehicle miles travelled on Great Britain’s roads last year, was 1.2% higher than the previous year, which was itself a record, and ...
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Maxol invests €2m in three new sites
Maxol has announced the creation of 50 jobs with the completion of three new sites in Leinster in the Republic of Ireland. The three sites were all formerly owned by Esso and acquired by Maxol last summer, and bring the number of openings by Maxol in Leinster in the past ...
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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 ...