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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ATM blown up on Bolton forecourt
Thieves have blown up a cash machine at a petrol station in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and stolen a significant amount of cash. Police were called to reports of an explosion at the Texaco Service Station, on Rishton Lane, Great Lever, at 12.15am on Monday November 14. They discovered the remains ...
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MP visits Blakemore service station
Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers has visited a new Blakemore Retail forecourt and convenience store at Laceby Lodge Services to discuss the opening of the store and its value in providing jobs for the local community, as well as business rates, employment costs and retail crime. The Laceby Lodge Services site ...
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Quarter of Scottish charge points not used
Usage of electric charging points in Scotland has doubled in the past year, and is up nine times over two years, but 25% of charging points were not used in the most recent month for which figures are available. Data from ChargePlace Scotland shows that Electric vehicle charging points in ...
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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. ...
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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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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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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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Oil sector calls for action from Chancellor
In advance of the Autumn Statement on November 23, the UK’s downstream oil sector has called on Government for recognition and to provide investor confidence. Chris Hunt, director general of UKPIA (UK Petroleum Industry Association), said: “For too long, the UK’s oil refining and marketing sector, which provides 33% of ...
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NewsForecourt worker is Sales Assistant of the Year
The forecourt sector has provided the winner of the Sales Assistant of the Year Award 2016, which is organised by Forecourt Trader’s sister publication Convenience Store. Tracie Horner, of Spar Carrowdore, in Northern Ireland, was announced as the winner during a ceremony at the Dorchester London. Tracie was chosen because ...