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Talks to extend Rural Fuel Duty Rebate Scheme
The PRA has held talks with HM Treasury and HMRC about extending the life of Rural Fuel Duty Rebate Scheme at a meeting with HM Treasury and HMRC last week (February 28). With the scheme covering Scottish Islands due to expire at the end of this year, PRA chairman Brian ...
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Moto unveils plans for £40m A1(M) service area
Plans for a £40m development on the A1(M) have been unveiled by motorway service area operator Moto Hospitality. It has applied for planning permission for a service area on land north east of junction 37, where the motorway joins the A635 south of Brodsworth, in South Yorkshire. The development would ...
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Dumping diesel could harm fight against CO2
The current government focus on harmful emissions from diesel vehicles could damage attempts to lower the amount of CO2 produced by transport in the UK. This was the warning from the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) after the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) published its latest report on ...
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NewsPRA presses for 3ppl fuel duty cut in Treasury meeting
The PRA has urged the Chancellor to cut fuel duty by 3ppl in next week’s Budget on 8 March. At a meeting with senior officials at the Treasury this week (February 27), PRA representatives provided detailed arguments for pressing ahead with a fuel duty cut. In their presentation they said: ...
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Nisa reveals 40th anniversary plans
Nisa Retail has announced the launch of its 40th Anniversary celebrations. Nisa will mark the occasion with a series of special events and promotions across the year, culminating in a month of Birthday celebrations during October – the actual month the business launched back in 1977. Activity will begin to ...
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Warning over deadline for alcohol registration scheme
Retailers are being warned there is just one month to go until the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS) will require them to check that their wholesalers are approved by HMRC by checking the Unique Reference Number (URN) on their invoices.From April 1, retailers that purchase alcohol from a UK wholesaler ...
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Asda applies to build two forecourts
Asda has submitted planning applications for two new petrol filling stations (PFSs), with one near its supermarket at Arnold in Nottingham, and the other at its store at Antrim in Northern Ireland. In Nottingham it is proposing to demolish Arnold Police Station, which is 150m from the Asda Supermarket, and ...
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C-store chain stages first trade show
Fast-growing Central Convenience Stores, which includes 15 forecourts among its 100-plus outlets in the south of England, is holding its first trade show, bringing together suppliers, store managers and the Central senior management team. The event, being held in Southampton on March 16, is also intended to give potential franchisees ...
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RAC welcomes stabilisation in fuel prices
After two months of rises at the pumps, the price of petrol and diesel stabilised in February, according to RAC Fuel Watch data. Unleaded petrol finished the month at 120.23ppl, a fractional increase on the figure of 120.05ppl on February 1, and diesel was 122.25ppl, having started at 122.31p. The ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...