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NFRN partners Imperial Tobacco to fight illegal trade
Imperial Tobacco has teamed up with the newsagents association NFRN to help educate independent retailers and UK smokers about the growing trade in illegal tobacco. Fifty thousand anti-illicit trade (AIT) packs branded with Imperial’s Suspect it? Report it! campaign are being distributed to all retailers throughout the UK during January. ...
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NewsAdvisers seek buyers for stricken Top 50 Indie
Business advisers to the stricken Top 50 Indie High Noon Stores are trying to find buyers for the company’s assets, but have said reports that the company has gone into administration are not strictly accurate. Greg Palfrey, head of restructuring and recovering and partner at Smith & Williamson, said ...
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Worker steals £450,000 from Asda petrol kiosks
An Asda worker has been jailed after she stole more than £450,000 from the company’s petrol kiosks over a four-year period. Wendy Clements, who worked in the cash office of the South Bank supermarket in Middlesbrough, discovered that the electronic records on the tills were not linked to the “smart ...
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ACS issues advice over snow clearing
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has advised retailers to follow the Department for Transport’s Snow Code when moving snow and ice outside their stores. Under Health and Safety law, businesses are required (so far as is reasonably practicable) to keep routes into the store free from anything that may ...
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Pharmacy added in redevelopment
Lincolnshire Co-op is carrying out a £750,000 redevelopment of its Winning Post filling station in Lincoln, which will involve the addition of a pharmacy. The work will also include a new canopy, pumps and equipment being installed and a more accessible layout, and will require closure of the filling station ...
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Funding for alternative fuel schemes
Vans will go electric and lorries will run on hydrogen dual-fuel under a £20m government programme to cut emissions and improve air quality, transport minister John Hayes has announced. The funding, announced at the Sustainable Road Transport Conference, in central London, is being given to 20 firms who set out ...
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NewsForecourt sales at record levels for Christie & Co
Sales of petrol stations hit a post-recession record last year, as retail property prices bounced back to 2007 levels – buoyed by an increase of 8.8% on 2015 - according to Steve Rodell, head of retail at Christie & Co, which claims to have sold more petrol stations than ever ...
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Government announces road improvements
Multi-million pound plans to improve journeys for drivers on some of the East of England’s busiest roads will be launched over the next three months, transport secretary Chris Grayling has announced. The work on the A12, A428 and A47 will be carried out by Highways England and is due to ...
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Approval for new filling station in Gloucester
Asda has been granted planning permission for a petrol filling station (PFS) at its supermarket in the centre of Gloucester after it said it hoped to bring low priced fuel to residents of the city. The PFS will take space from the supermarket car park and will consist of six ...
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NewsLeaders of £2.6m fuel scam jailed
The leaders of an organised crime gang, which operated a filling station as part of a £2.6m fuel scam, have been jailed. Nine people, including the owner of a Belfast-based fuel supply company, have been sentenced for their part in the laundering, concealing and distribution of an estimated 4.5 million ...
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Law firm applies for class action against VW
Harcus Sinclair UK, a law firm specialising in large group litigation, has applied for a group litigation order in claims against VW, Audi, SEAT and Skoda arising out of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. A total of 1.2 million cars in the UK are believed to have been affected. A group ...
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AF Blakemore holds profits steady
AF Blakemore, the family owned food retail, forecourt, wholesale and distribution business, which celebrates its centenary in 2017, recorded annual sales of £1.31bn with pre-tax profits up from £7.59m to £7.60m for the 2015/16 financial year. Net Assets have also grown by 7.6% to £80.8m. AF Blakemore chairman, Peter Blakemore, ...
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Armed robber raids Sunderland site
Northumbria Police are appealing for witnesses after an armed robbery at a petrol filling station in Sunderland. At about 3am on Friday, January 6, a man entered the Barnes Esso service station armed with a stun gun type weapon. He threatened the cashier and demanded they handed over cash and ...
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Auto bosses predict demise of diesel
UK automotive executives expect battery electric vehicles will dominate the automotive marketplace by 2025 and predict diesel technology will be phased out, according to KPMG’s Global Automotive Executive Survey 2017. The report findings revealed that 62% of UK automotive executives view diesel technology as a thing of the past, expecting ...
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Driverless cars will reduce delays says DfT
Driverless cars could significantly reduce delays according to a new study by the Department for Transport (DfT). The project used computer software to create virtual models of different parts of the UK road network including urban roads and a 20km motorway section. Delays and traffic flow were all shown to ...
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Woman killed on Tesco forecourt
A fatal crash on a Tesco forecourt on Monday January 9 is being investigated by officers from Police Scotland. At around 7.10am, a 68-year-old woman was walking on the forecourt of the Tesco filling station, Lanark Road, Carluke when she was struck by a DAF lorry which was being driven ...
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Rontec extends Hoyer Petrolog contract to 2021
Hoyer Petrolog has announced that it has extended its agreement with Top 50 Indie Rontec to supply more than 200 of the company’s forecourts across the UK through to September 2021. Allan Davison, operations director for Hoyer Petrolog UK, said: "Rontec has been a major customer of Hoyer Petrolog since ...
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MRH boosts network with Spring addition
MRH, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has acquired Spring Petroleum which was ranked 11th in the most recent listing. Last year Top 50 Indie MRH had 452 sites and the acquisition of Spring Petroleum, which included Mercury Forecourts, adds a further 27. MRH company secretary David Hathaway ...
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Premier develops two Asda stations
Two new Asda forecourts in South Wales have opened after being completed by the construction division of The Premier Group. The new sites, in Llanelli and Tonypandy, were additionally awarded to The Premier Group as part of the Asda Framework in 2016. They mark the second and third projects that ...
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Certas Energy decides Bestway is the Best-one
Certas Energy has reached agreement with Bestway Wholesale to be a preferred retail partner across its independent, Gulf and Pace-branded sites. The new agreement will see current and new sites being introduced to Bestway’s Best-one symbol, Xtra local Retail Club and depot network as a group retail partner of choice.Certas ...