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Rateable values revealed today
Forecourt owners in England and Wales can find out the new rateable value (RV) for their properties from today (September 30) after the Valuation Office Agency published its assessments for 2017. However, it may still be some time before they know how much their rates bill is going to be ...
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NewsPRA welcomes OPEC deal
PRA chairman Brian Madderson has welcomed news of a potential deal to limit production within the oil producers cartel OPEC, which could result in an increase in the price of oil. He cautioned that implementing any deal involving countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting production would be difficult, ...
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Car smashes into forecourt shop
A car has crashed through the front window of the forecourt shop on an Esso-branded MRH site at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, narrowly missing a mother and her baby. The incident happened at around 12.30pm on Thursday September 29 at the Esso filling station on Coatbank Road. Witnesses described how a blue ...
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Superstation awards reaching climax
Certas Energy’s SuperStation awards culminates with its 2016 Gala Awards Dinner at Chesford Grange in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on Thursday 6 October. Open to over 700 Certas Energy-supplied forecourts and assessed by a panel of industry specialists, SuperStation recognises and rewards the highest standards of forecourt appearance, product offering, customer ...
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Newport site wins alcohol licence
A filling station in Newport has been granted a licence to sell alcohol, but not 24 hours a day, as originally proposed. Sinclair Services applied for a licence to sell alcohol around the clock at its Corporation Road site, and objections from Gwent Police and the council’s licensing department were ...
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ACS renews call to extend bag tax
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has reiterated its calls to Government to remove the exemption for small businesses on single use carrier bags in England. Under the current regulations, small businesses with fewer than 250 employees are exempt from the carrier bag charging regulations, meaning that they do not ...
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Drivers less concerned about cost of fuel
Drivers are more concerned about the cost of car insurance than they are about expenditure on fuel, according to the RAC Report on Motoring 2016. Almost half (46%) of the 1,714 motorists surveyed for the report said their insurance costs have increased since last year compared with 34% who said ...
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11 million smuggled cigarettes seized
Border Force officers at the Port of Felixstowe have made their largest ever seizure of smuggled cigarettes.The attempt to smuggle more than 11 million cigarettes into the UK was thwarted after customs officers became suspicious about a container’s cargo.It was supposed to be full of polymer resin, but instead officers ...
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Spar wholesaler opens new site
A new Shell petrol station and Spar supermarket in Southport, Merseyside, is being opened by G&E Murgatroyd, the retail arm of Spar’s northern England wholesaler James Hall. The store is on the former Duerdens car showroom on Roe Lane, and is due to open at 7am on Thursday September 29, ...
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Sewell on the go raises funds for Macmillan
Sewell on the go, which last month won the Forecourt Trader of the Year Award, has launched a fund-raising drive for Macmillan Cancer Support. From September 29 to October 2, 15 pence from every hot drink sold in any of its 12 stores will be donated to the charity. ...
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Police pursuit ends in forecourt smash
A high-speed police chase in the West Midlands ended when the car being pursued crashed into a wall at a service station. West Midlands Police chased a BMW after it failed to stop for officers in the Washwood Heath area at around 4.15am on Thursday September 22. The pursuit ended ...
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Car wash development plan withdrawn
Plans to develop a car wash business on the site of a former petrol station at Wilmslow, in Cheshire, have been withdrawn. Shines applied to change the use of the Kings Arms Service Station site, on Alderley Road, which has been left vacant after the previous buildings were demolished. The ...
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Armed robbers steal cash and cigarettes
Cash and cigarettes were stolen during an armed robbery from a service station in Lancashire. The incident occurred just after midnight on Sunday September 25 at the BP service station on County Road, Ormskirk, when two men wearing face coverings entered the store and demanded cash and cigarettes. One offender ...
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NFDA concerned over mileage altering
A survey of 1,000 drivers by NFDA (National Franchised Dealers Association) Trusted Dealers has found that almost two thirds (57%) of motorists surveyed did not know how to check if their vehicle’s odometer has been altered, and the majority (57%) said they were worried about buying a car that had ...
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ACS warns over rates proposals
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the Department for Communities and Local Government to ensure that small businesses do not lose out as a result of plans to allow local authorities to keep 100% of their business rates income. Under the proposals, local authorities will be incentivised ...
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Jet’s summer promotion works a treat
Fuel brand Jet is celebrating the success of its ‘Treat Yourself’ summer promotion, which saw its customers given the chance to win Amazon.co.uk gift cards every time they spent a minimum of £10 on fuel. More than £21,000 worth of prizes were given away during the promotion. All Jet dealers ...
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Contactless hastens cash decline
Cash was used for less than half of all retail transactions across the UK in 2015 according to the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) annual payments survey, published this week. The report looks at the methods of payment UK shoppers are using when buying goods in store and online, how this ...
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Newly opened forecourt burgled twice in two nights
Police are investigating after a Nottingham forecourt was burgled twice in two nights – just four days after the site opened.Police said a silver or grey VW Golf was used in both break-ins at the Lenton Boulevard Service Station in Lenton Boulevard, Lenton.In the first incident – overnight between 9.20pm ...
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Red Bull robber
A would-be robber tried to steal from a Dagenham forecourt store armed with a can of Red Bull.According to a report in The Sun, which includes CCTV images of the incident, the man jumped over the counter then used the can to hit the forecourt assistant around the head. After ...
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Gulf site’s ATM blown up
An ATM at the Gulf Service Station on Huddersfield Road in Stalybridge was blown up in the early hours of September 22. According to the Manchester Evening News, the cash machine was blown off the wall shortly before 4am on Thursday morning. In the newspaper report, it said that police ...