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£4m funding for road technology announced
The Government has awarded £4m to local authorities for technology projects that will cut congestion, speed up journeys and clean up the environment. Apps that notify motorists of congestion and free parking spaces, and real time journey information for visually impaired passengers, are among projects that will receive a share ...
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London mayor confirms charge for most polluting vehicles
London mayor Sadiq Khan has confirmed that a £10 toxic “T-Charge”, for the most polluting vehicles, will start in central London on October 23 this year.The new emissions levy will apply to motorists who own vehicles that do not meet Euro 4 standards – typically those diesel and petrol vehicles ...
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New national forecourt crime initiative launched
The Home Office, fuel retailers and police have come together to tackle the £36m annual cost of fuel theft on the UK’s petrol forecourts. The impact that fuel theft is having on the sector has sparked industry groups, including the PRA, Association of Convenience Store (ACS) and the Downstream Fuel ...
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NewsShell opens its first UK hydrogen refuelling station
Shell has launched its first hydrogen refuelling station in the UK at its Cobham service station on the M25. The new hydrogen station has been supplied by ITM Power and is the first fully branded and public hydrogen refuelling site in the UK, and is the first of three sites ...
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NewsGovernment to force service stations to offer hydrogen
The government is going ahead with plans to give it powers to force “large fuel retailers” and operators of motorway service areas to provide electric charging points and hydrogen refuelling facilities. The Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill, which has just been published, would give the Government the power to compel ...
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Topaz and McDonald’s team up for motorway services
Topaz and McDonald’s are to create 230 new jobs through the creation of two new motorway service areas (MSAs) in Carlow and Fermoy in the Irish Republic. Topaz Junction 5, on the M9 motorway between Dublin and Waterford, Co. Carlow is due to open in March 2017, and the Fermoy ...
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Doctors call for action to phase out diesel vehicles
Nearly 300 doctors, nurses and other health professionals from across the UK, including more than 100 doctors in London, have signed a letter to prime minister Theresa May calling for government action to remove the current fleet of diesel vehicles from the roads as soon as possible.Doctors Against Diesel is ...
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Palmer & Harvey launches new ’best in class’ online ordering system
Palmer and Harvey has made a ‘significant investment’ in website technology, in its bid to have the best wholesaler online ordering system. It has launched a new transactional website, which has been created and designed in conjunction with around 50 retailers, who first trialled the system. The new website aims ...
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NewsShell launches in-car payment app with Jaguar
Jaguar drivers can now use their car’s touchscreen to pay for fuel at Shell filling stations with a new cashless payment app. Owners who install the Shell app can drive up to any pump at a Shell service station (initially in the UK and then globally) and use the vehicle’s ...
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NewsArmed robber strikes at Fraser’s site
Thames Valley Police has released CCTV images in relation to an armed robbery on a forecourt in Yarnton on Monday February 13. The offender walked into Fraser’s Budgens store and petrol station on the A44 at about 11pm and demanded money from members of staff while holding a revolver-style firearm. ...
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Best-one excels in Which? c-store survey
Bestway has welcomed a shopper satisfaction survey of convenience stores by Which?, that rated its Best-one symbol group above every other symbol group, and ranked it third behind M&S Simply Food and Little Waitrose. Shoppers were asked how satisfied they were with the stores where they pick up groceries between ...
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HMRC calls for tougher penalties for illegal tobacco
People who smuggle, distribute and sell illicit tobacco could be hit by a fourfold increase in fines together with tough new civil penalties, as part of plans to crackdown on the smuggling of illicit tobacco. New proposals, published in a consultation by HMRC, range from penalties of up to 400% ...
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Forecourts leading a food-to-go trend
Forecourts and motorway service stations are at the forefront in one of the top trends in food to go, according to Gavin Rothwell, senior retail insight manager at grocery research organisation IGD. One of the trends he identifies is a move to target new locations. He said: “Many food-to-go specialists ...
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PRA holds meeting in Northern Ireland
The PRA will be holding a “Live and Local” meeting in Northern Ireland next month, at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast on March 9.The meeting will be taking place at the hotel at Upper Newtownards Road, BT4 3LP, with registration from 10am and is due to close at 2pm.It includes ...
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ACS calls for ’fairer’ business rates system
The ACS has called on the Government to make business rates fairer for the forecourt and convenience sector in its submission ahead of the 2017 Budget.It has also responded to figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government, which forecast net business rates income to rise from £22.4bn ...
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Maxol launches fuel discount promotion
Maxol has announced a special savings promotion offering customers savings of 3 pence per litre in Northern Ireland or 5 cents per litre in ROI.The promotion - run in partnership with Independent News and Media (INM) - will run until March 11, and is being supported by an extensive media ...
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NewsBOSS recovers more than £3m for fuel retailers
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has now recovered more than £3m on behalf of fuel retailers who are members of BOSS Payment Watch. The scheme helps retailers reduce losses from people claiming to have no means of payment. Kevin Eastwood, executive director at BOSS, said: “Recovering more than £3m ...
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AA urges car tax re-think
Tax changes that penalise drivers of low emission vehicles and benefit higher emission cars should be dropped, the AA is urging. From April 1 any new vehicle which emits more than 1g per km of CO2 will pay a standard car tax rate of £140 per year after the first ...
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Burglars smash way into forecourt shop
Police are appealing for witnesses following a burglary at the BP Snax 24 service station in Spring Road, Ipswich. Suffolk Police were called at around 1.15am on Friday 10 February, by a member of the public reporting a burglary in progress at the shop on the forecourt. Officers said they ...
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London Mayor produces diesel scrappage plan
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called on government to implement his new proposals for a national diesel scrappage fund that financially compensates motorists. The Mayor has said tackling air pollution in the capital is a priority, and wants to take the most polluting vehicles off the roads.He has ...