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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ACS calls on Ofgem to include local shops in proposals to limit back-billing
ACS has called on energy regulator Ofgem to ensure that local shops and other small businesses are included in proposals to limit back-billing of electricity and gas. Currently, suppliers have signed up to voluntary agreements to only back-bill domestic consumers for a maximum of 12 months. Ofgem is looking at ...
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NewsGloucester site added to Euro Garages portfolio
Euro Garages has acquired another forecourt in the south west - Churcham Garage, Gloucester. Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co brokered the sale of the site, an established forecourt business in Churcham, Gloucester on behalf of Jamshad Karupamveetil of Milecross Ltd. Jamshad acquired the petrol station, which at the ...
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Certas Energy appoints new finance director
Steve Little has joined Certas Energy as its new finance director with a brief to develop improvements across the business and add value to its domestic and commercial customers.Previously, Steve spent eight years at Houghton International, a speciality chemical company headquartered in Philadelphia, which focuses on metalworking fluids. At Houghton, ...
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NewsScary result of Chartman team-building exercise
Motorists visiting the Winning Post Service Station on Exeter’s Haldon Hill are currently being entertained by a collective of scarecrows produced by each of the south west’s Chartman-owned stores. The exercise was a project aimed at team building within and between the stores. Company director of the Top 50 Indie ...
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NewsSupermarkets unleash a flurry of fuel price cuts
All the major supermarkets have announced price cuts at the pump, just as the RAC has released its latest report claiming that the drop in the price of oil and jump in the value of sterling should give retailers a chance to pass on savings. Morrisons led the announcements, followed ...
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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 ...
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NewsSentinel roll-out boosts Jet’s quality fuels offering
The premium fuels market is growing across the UK and certainly for the Jet brand, according to Graham Clout, retail sales manager at Phillips 66, speaking at this week’s Forecourt Show. “Sentinel diesel is now available across the entire UK,” he said. “It is becoming more and more important to ...
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Top honours for Hoyer fuel delivery drivers
Three Hoyer drivers have taken top honours in the Hoyer Petrolog Driver Of The Year Awards, 2017. The overall winner was Sion Williams (ShellFleet, Stanlow), runner up was David Young (EssoFleet, Grangemouth); while Stephen Pick (Shell Fleet, Kingsbury) came third.Hoyer Petrolog’s has 1,250 drivers in the UK, and over a ...
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End of the road for Seven Ways Service Station
Seven Ways Service Station, a BWOC site in Bristol, is closing down this week due to economic reasons, after failing to find a buyer.It was up for sale as a going concern for two years, according to Michael Touzalin, who has run the site with his wife Naclye (known as ...
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One week to go for old fivers as legal tender
The Bank of England has issued a reminder that it will be withdrawing legal tender status of the paper £5 note, featuring Elizabeth Fry, next Friday, May 5 2017. It is encouraging anyone who still has paper £5 notes to spend them during the forthcoming week. At the start of ...
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Shoplifting on the rise, says ONS
An 8% rise in recorded shoplifting incidents has been revealed in the latest figures released by The Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the year ending December 2016 in England and Wales.The figures show that there were approximately 358,235 incidents of shop theft in 2016, which is over 25,000 more ...
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NewsSt Blazey signs new five-year deal with Gulf
Barrie Richards, proprietor of St Blazey Service Station, Cornwall has selected Gulf as his fuel brand for a further five years. The family business, which he operates with his wife Jean and son Charles, pumps a retail volume of 4.5m litres and includes a convenience store, off licence and ...