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£375m additional support for ULEVs
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has announced £375m in additional support between 2017 and 2021 to accelerate the transition to ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the Autumn Statement. The funding includes £150m to create a cleaner bus and taxi fleet; £80m towards electric vehicle charging infrastructure; £40m of additional support for ...
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Forecourt Show 2017 already larger than 2015
Make a date in your diary for 24-26 April 2017, because that’s when The Forecourt Show will take place at the NEC Birmingham, alongside National Convenience Show and Farm Shop & Deli Show, showcasing more than 600 exhibitors and brands. The Forecourt Show is already 10% bigger than in 2015, ...
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NewsMorrisons to open shops on Rontec sites
Morrisons is planning to pilot a convenience food offer in ten petrol station shops owned and managed by Top 50 Indie Rontec. Four Morrisons Daily shops will open before Christmas and a further six in January. They will be up to 3,000sq ft in size, and will sell branded and ...
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Man stabbed at Tesco forecourt
The Essex Police service is appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed and sprayed with what is believed to have been CS gas on a forecourt in Ongar. Officers were called by the ambulance service just after 4.50pm on Tuesday November 22 with reports a man had been stabbed ...
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IGD predicts rapid food-to-go growth
IGD is predicting the burgeoning food-to-go market will be worth £21.7bn by 2021, up from £16.1bn this year, offering significant opportunities for growth. IGD splits the market into five segments, with all expected to increase significantly by 2021, and it forecasts food-to-go sales at convenience, forecourts and other retailers will ...
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Dealer rents site in "record time”
NTS Retail Ltd has recently completed the letting of a former BP Petrol Station in Bridgwater, Somerset, in what it describes as record time. From first inspection to legal occupation was completed in less than one week. The previous tenant was vacating and NTS Retail was able to act promptly ...
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PRA welcomes duty freeze in Autumn Statement
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s decision to invest in road infrastructure and not to raise duty on fuel in his Autumn Statement today. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said: “In recent weeks, we have been meeting with Treasury officials to discuss the impact of a fuel duty cut and have ...
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Hampshire site closed after LPG leak
Fire fighters imposed an exclusion zone around a Co-op forecourt in Hampshire for the second time after a suspected LPG leak on Monday November 21. Fire crews were called to the Co-operative Petrol Station on Wellworthy Road in Lymington, just a week after the station was first closed because of ...
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NewsMorrisons turns up the heat on fuel prices
Morrisons has turned up the heat on last week’s supermarket fuel price cuts with promises that its customers will pay below £1-a-litre for petrol for the first time since the Brexit vote. Over the weekend, the supermarket reduced the price of unleaded to a maximum of 109.9ppl at its 333 ...
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NewsShell to open first hydrogen refuelling facility in UK
Commissioning of the first hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) at a Shell site, at the Extra Motorway Service Area at Cobham, is under way following delivery of the electrolyser and buffer tank to the site earlier this week. The HRS will open to the public in early 2017. As the work ...
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Tesco and Morrisons developments grind to a halt
Significant trends affecting the growth of supermarket forecourts and oil company branded sites have been highlighted in the latest market report Experian Catalist. It shows the rapid development of forecourts by two of the four major supermarkets has ground to a halt. Tesco is down one to 504 in the ...
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Chancellor "warming" to fuel duty cut
PRA chairman Brian Madderson believes his call for a cut in fuel duty is gaining traction after a meeting with Treasury officials. Following the meeting he said he now “trusts that the Chancellor is warming to the idea of a fuel duty cut and that his autumn statement will ...
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Used car sales at record levels
Growth in the used car market continued in the third quarter of 2016 as UK buyers bought a record 2,148,050 vehicles, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Demand grew 7.9% compared with third quarter of 2015. Consumer appetite for alternatively fuelled vehicles rose ...
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NewsPolice investigate forecourt attack
Metropolitan Police have released CCTV footage of an attack on a forecourt which left a man with a fractured jaw. The incident occurred after two men were seen parking a car in the forecourt of the Esso petrol station in Broadway, Bexleyheath, south-east London on Wednesday 5 October. But a ...
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Dealer anger over BP delivery problems
BP dealers nationwide have complained of sites running dry of unleaded petrol after the oil company transferred fuel deliveries to Hoyer on November 1. The problems appear to be across England with dealers’ sites running dry as far south as Southampton and up to Cumbria in the North, as well ...
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Motorists concerned about emissions says RAC
Motorists want to be part of the solution to the UK’s air quality problems with an increasing number concerned about emissions and a majority wanting bolder action to be taken, according to the RAC Report on Motoring 2016. A clear majority (66%) of more than 1,700 motorists surveyed this year ...
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National Lottery sales slide
Camelot has announced a fall in sales for the first half of its financial year to £3.389bn, compared with £3.615bn in the same period last year. During the period, Camelot generated returns for National Lottery Good Causes of £783m and awarded £1,928m in prizes. Camelot CEO Andy Duncan ...
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Failed ram raid on Harvest site
Thames Valley Police are hunting three offenders after an attempted ram raid at a Harvest forecourt in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, early on Tuesday November 15. Police were called at about 2.20am after local residents reported hearing a loud bang. A police spokesman said: “At this stage we don’t believe that anything ...
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NewsRAC slams delays over price cuts
The RAC has welcomed price cuts on unleaded petrol and diesel introduced by the major supermarkets, but criticised them for delaying the reductions while wholesale fuel prices were falling. On Monday November 14 Tesco announced cuts of up to 3ppl on diesel and unleaded petrol from that afternoon. Peter Cattell, ...
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Illicit cigarette factory raided
A suspected illicit cigarette-processing factory has been dismantled in Birmingham during a raid led by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The machinery was believed to be capable of producing 35 million cigarettes a month, at a potential cost to taxpayers of almost £138m in lost duty and taxes a year. ...