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Car wash development plan withdrawn
Plans to develop a car wash business on the site of a former petrol station at Wilmslow, in Cheshire, have been withdrawn. Shines applied to change the use of the Kings Arms Service Station site, on Alderley Road, which has been left vacant after the previous buildings were demolished. The ...
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Police pursuit ends in forecourt smash
A high-speed police chase in the West Midlands ended when the car being pursued crashed into a wall at a service station. West Midlands Police chased a BMW after it failed to stop for officers in the Washwood Heath area at around 4.15am on Thursday September 22. The pursuit ended ...
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Sewell on the go raises funds for Macmillan
Sewell on the go, which last month won the Forecourt Trader of the Year Award, has launched a fund-raising drive for Macmillan Cancer Support. From September 29 to October 2, 15 pence from every hot drink sold in any of its 12 stores will be donated to the charity. ...
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Spar wholesaler opens new site
A new Shell petrol station and Spar supermarket in Southport, Merseyside, is being opened by G&E Murgatroyd, the retail arm of Spar’s northern England wholesaler James Hall. The store is on the former Duerdens car showroom on Roe Lane, and is due to open at 7am on Thursday September 29, ...
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NewsAward-winner Sewell becomes ACS chair
Forecourt Trader of the Year winner Patrick Sewell is to become chair of the Association of Convenience Stores. He will take on the chairmanship of ACS from November 1, 2016, having served as deputy chair since 2014. and will replace Palmer and Harvey group strategy and development director Paul Hagon, ...
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Gulf site’s ATM blown up
An ATM at the Gulf Service Station on Huddersfield Road in Stalybridge was blown up in the early hours of September 22. According to the Manchester Evening News, the cash machine was blown off the wall shortly before 4am on Thursday morning. In the newspaper report, it said that police ...
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Red Bull robber
A would-be robber tried to steal from a Dagenham forecourt store armed with a can of Red Bull.According to a report in The Sun, which includes CCTV images of the incident, the man jumped over the counter then used the can to hit the forecourt assistant around the head. After ...
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Newly opened forecourt burgled twice in two nights
Police are investigating after a Nottingham forecourt was burgled twice in two nights – just four days after the site opened.Police said a silver or grey VW Golf was used in both break-ins at the Lenton Boulevard Service Station in Lenton Boulevard, Lenton.In the first incident – overnight between 9.20pm ...
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Contactless hastens cash decline
Cash was used for less than half of all retail transactions across the UK in 2015 according to the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) annual payments survey, published this week. The report looks at the methods of payment UK shoppers are using when buying goods in store and online, how this ...
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Jet’s summer promotion works a treat
Fuel brand Jet is celebrating the success of its ‘Treat Yourself’ summer promotion, which saw its customers given the chance to win Amazon.co.uk gift cards every time they spent a minimum of £10 on fuel. More than £21,000 worth of prizes were given away during the promotion. All Jet dealers ...
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Forecourt attendant threatened with knife
Detectives are continuing enquiries and appealing for witnesses after a robbery at an Esso petrol station in Ibrox, Glasgow on Saturday September 17.The incident took place at around 5.30am when a man entered the forecourt in Broomloan Road and threatened the male member of staff with a knife and demanded ...
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New forecourt entrant buys Holmfirth business
Newcomers to the forecourt sector have acquired the leasehold of their first forecourt - Holmfirth Filling Station in West Yorkshire. The sale of the operation to local business owners Rehan Rana & Associates was handled by property adviser, Christie & Co.The forecourt is located along Huddersfield Road, a mile from ...
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Indie retailers urge Chancellor to can sugar tax
Hundreds of independent retailers have called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to can proposals for a soft drinks tax, warning that it will devastate their businesses while failing to tackle the UK’s obesity problems.As part of the NFRN’s Day of Action against the Sugar Tax on Friday September 16, thousands of ...
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Maxol secures new supply deal on three Henderson Group sites
Leading Irish forecourt and convenience retailer Maxol has secured a contract with the Henderson Group to supply three new service stations.The stations - in Glenavy and Broughshane, County Antrim; and the Donegal Road, Belfast - increase the Maxol-branded network with the Henderson Group to a total of 25 service stations ...
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False ‘naming and shaming’ hits Surrey forecourt’s sales
A Guildford petrol station has reported a 20% decline in sales after a member of its staff was named and shamed on Facebook following an allegation of card cloning – which turned out to be false.The incident took place on September 6, when a woman attempted to use her debit ...
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Yuk! Petrol pumps are more germy than a loo seat
On average, fuel pumps have more than 11,000 times more bacteria on them than a household toilet seat. That’s the shock finding from bus-travel booking website busbud.com, which collected bacteria samples from three forecourts and three charging stations in the US. A previous study conducted by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation ...
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ACS welcomes Welsh rate relief extension
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed the Welsh Government’s announcement that the Small Business Rate Relief scheme will be extended for 2017-18 and made permanent in 2018. Businesses with a rateable value of up to £6,000 will continue to receive 100% relief, while those with a rateable value ...
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Assistant wounded by knife during robbery
Merseyside Police is appealing for information after a staff member was wounded by a knife during an armed robbery at a service station on Thursday 15 September. At around 5am, a man armed with a knife entered Shell Service Station on Hoylake Road in Moreton. He jumped over the counter ...
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Jet raises funds for children’s cancer charity
Jet has joined forces with the Children with Cancer UK charity to support its work to determine the causes, find cures and provide care for children with cancer. Jet’s support of the charity coincides with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September, a nationwide initiative which sees many charities and organisations ...
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Cigarette smuggler jailed for four years
A Derbyshire man, who was caught red-handed unloading more than eight million cigarettes from a shipping container that was supposed to be carrying tables and chairs, has been jailed for four years. Stewart Grainger was arrested by officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) after he was caught unloading the ...