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ACS welcomes sentencing proposals
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed proposed changes to the way that magistrates deal with alcohol-related offences. It was responding to proposals in the Sentencing Council’s consultation on guidelines for alcohol sale offences. The consultation looks at the guidance that magistrates are provided when deciding on the appropriate ...
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£2m fund to improve journeys
A £2m fund to allow councils to capitalise on emerging technologies and deliver better journeys for motorists has been launched. Local authorities have been invited by the Department for Transport to apply for a share of the money to develop projects to enhance journeys. Proposals include using technology that will ...
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Thames Oilport increases storage
Thames Oilport has announced that it plans to expand the amount of tankage to be used for diesel storage, bringing into use a further 56,000 cbm of tankage from the first quarter of 2017. This is additional to the 175,000cbm of tankage which came into use in April 2016 and ...
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Tesla to sever final tie to service stations
Tesla is reported to be working on plans to sever the last links between filling stations and customers who own its electric cars. Owners can already charge their cars at home, removing the need to refuel at filling stations, and now, according to US website Electrek, it is trialling a ...
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Delivery driver robbed on Sussex forecourt
Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery on the forecourt of Sainsbury’s service station at John MacAdam Way, St Leonards on Sea, at 7.30 am on Monday 25 July. The robbery occurred as the driver of an Iveco eight-tonne truck was in the rear of this vehicle preparing ...
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Essar UK extends downstream with new deal
Essar Oil (UK), which owns and operates the Stanlow Refinery at Ellesmere Port, has signed its first agreement for the direct supply of aviation fuel to a commercial carrier, with a major deal having been agreed with Emirates airline at Manchester Airport. Emirates flies three times daily from Manchester to ...
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NewsFirst Asda finished in multi-site project
The first completed Asda filling station, in a multi-site project for the supermarket retailer, has been handed over by the construction division of fuel engineering company The Premier Group. The site, at the retailer’s East Retford store in Nottinghamshire, has been completed as part of a new contract with Asda, ...
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Park Garage Group holds annual cricket day
Park Garage Group, the family-owned business currently ranked 7th in the Top 50 Indies, recently held its annual cricket day at Addiscombe Cricket Club, East Croydon, for suppliers, staff and commission operators. Six teams competed with teams sponsored by suppliers Bestway, Valero, Ginsters and Certas Energy. The six-a-side limited overs ...
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Fraudster convicted over £3,246 fuel card scam
A man who stole £3,246.27 worth of fuel from service stations in the West Midlands, has been convicted of six fraud offences. Zia Ul-Haq of Falmouth Road in Hodge Hill used cloned fuel cards to purchase thousands of pounds worth of fuel from six forecourts in the Birmingham area. A ...
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Wiltshire police probe spate of drive-offs
Wiltshire Police are appealing for information following a series of bilking incidents in Chippenham last week, including one in which £256 of diesel was stolen. Incidents have been reported at the Leigh Delamere Services on the M4, both east and westbound, as well as at a garage in West Cepen ...
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Nissan uses flawed statistics in charging point claim
Nissan Motors has used dubious statistics to claim there will be more public electric car charging stations than fuel stations in the UK in 2020, and the story has been repeated by many major news outlets. It also used sales figures to suggest electric vehicles have reached the tipping ...
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New car market cooling down
The boom in new car sales is cooling with UK new car registrations up 0.1% in July, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 178,523 units were registered in July and figures for the year to date show 1,599,159 new cars ...
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Rontec wins world award from Subway
Top 50 Indie Rontec, has been identified as Subway’s best franchisee in the world for 26-49 stores at the sandwich store business’s 2016 Summer Franchisee Leadership Conference Awards held in Chicago. The award is based on a number of factors including financial strength gain, compliance, sales and store growth. The ...
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Applegreen plans English motorway services
Applegreen is planning its first motorway service area in mainland Britain, at junction 4 of the M42, near Shirley in the West Midlands. The Top 50 Indie company has been holding consultation meetings with local residents prior to lodging a planning application in September. In its brochure for the scheme ...
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ACS issues guide on local engagement
High streets minister Andrew Percy has welcomed new guidance for convenience store retailers on engaging with different local decision makers in their area. The guidance, released by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), aims to support convenience retailers in understanding the shift toward more local decision making, give them the ...
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NewsMFG buys second Top 50 Indie in a week
Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has agreed to purchase fellow Top 50 Indie operator Roadside Group, just four days after announcing the signing of an agreement to purchase the Bolton-based Top 50 Indie Synergie Holdings. Roadside Group operates 10 stations throughout the north-east of England, with its flagship forecourt being located ...
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Two robbers threaten cashier with knife
Police have appealed for witnesses after a cashier at Rushden Service Station in Northamptonshire was threatened with a knife by two men, who ran into the premises and stole a quantity of cash from behind the counter. She was uninjured but extremely shaken by the incident, which happened on Sunday, ...
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Man injured as car smashes into forecourt shop
A customer had to be treated in hospital after a car smashed into a forecourt shop at Halesowen in the West Midlands. The crash happened just after 11am on August 2 at the Balmoral Service Station on Bromsgrove Road. A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman, said: “A male in ...
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Businesses appeal to minister over living wage
A group of trade associations representing the interests of over 388,000 businesses employing around 4.5 million people, have written to the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Greg Clark, urging caution over planned increases in the National Living Wage in the next four years. In the ...
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Phillips 66 wins safety awards
Phillips 66 has won two gold awards at the 2016 RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards. It achieved the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Gold award and the Gold Award for Fleet Safety in the annual scheme run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Helen Evans, ...