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Gulf dealer buys a second forecourt
Roger Perry, proprietor of Leven Road Service Station near Beverley, East Riding, Yorkshire, has added Prospect Service Station, Ossett, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to his portfolio, facilitated by Certas Energy. Both sites are Gulf-branded."I had been looking for another forecourt business for two years, without success," explained Roger. "Most of the ...
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A man has been found not guilty of contaminating fuel which caused dozens of breakdowns for customers of the Tesco service station in Branksome, Poole, Dorset. Prosecutors at Basildon Crown Court claimed a tanker driver, Jeffrey Wheeler, removed diesel from a tanker and replaced it with non-road fuel diesel in ...
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Oil company bosses join indies
xecutives have been appointed to leading roles by two Top 50 Indies. MRH (GB) announced the appointment of Karen Dickens as chief executive officer of the company with effect from March 1, 2016. Karen previously held a number of senior managerial positions within ExxonMobil Corporation. Graham Peacock, former chief executive ...
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Pair of robbers strike at award-winning forecourt
Two men robbed the award-winning Parkfoot Garage, at West Malling, Kent, on Wednesday February 17, threatening staff before making off with about £1,400 in cash, cigarettes and alcohol.Police were called at around 4.40am to reports of the raid at the BP petrol station and Spar store, which is open 24 ...
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Attempted robbery in Derbyshire
Police are appealing for witnesses after an attempted robbery at a petrol station in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. On Monday, February 29 at around 9.45pm three youths entered the Junction Service Station on Wilsthorpe Road. They were all on pushbikes and approached the petrol station from the direction of the leisure ...
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Asda won’t trade below cost on fuel
Asda’s petrol pricing policy of not trading below cost, is revealed in a planning application for a new petrol filling station at its store in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Acting on behalf of Asda, Deloitte is seeking permission from Wyre Council for a fully automated filling station with three pumps and six ...
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Sale of Topaz goes ahead
he takeover of Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, Topaz Energy Group, by the Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard has been completed.The companies announced the completion after the EU Commission ratified the deal, which was agreed in early DecemberTopaz owns 158 service stations across the island of Ireland, supplies ...
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MacDonald warns against fuel duty hike
The March Budget could signal the end of lower pump prices if Chancellor George Osborne decides to raise petrol and diesel taxes after failing to keep a lid on government borrowing. That’s the prediction of Ramsay MacDonald, retail director of Certas Energy, who urges him to look elsewhere to balance ...
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Phillips 66 introduces new tankers to fleet
Phillips 66 has replaced 70% of its total road tanker fleet with 32 new MAN, Scania and Merc vehicles. The vehicles conform to Euro 6 emissions standards thus delivering lower emissions and improved fuel efficiency, among a number of other benefits.Mary Wolf, managing director of Phillips 66 UK & Ireland ...
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Government admits last Sunday trading research was in 2006
Business minister Anna Soubry has admitted to parliament that the Government has failed to commission any research over the past 10 years to look into the impact of Sunday trading deregulation. In an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Kevin Brennan MP, she said: “In 2006 Indepen were commissioned ...
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Car sales highest in February for 12 years
New car registrations continued the positive start to 2016 in February, growing 8.4% compared with the same month in 2015, according to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The total of 83,395 new cars registered in the month was the biggest in February since ...
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Robber threatens worker with machete
A robbery at a service in Runcorn, Cheshire, is being investigated by police. At 6.40am on Monday 29 February, police were called to the Shell Garage in Hallwood Link Road in Runcorn. A man had entered the garage and threatened a member of staff with what appeared to be a ...
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HMRC crackdown in Leicester
A two-day operation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco and alcohol in Leicester, has uncovered more than 30,600 cigarettes, 51kg of tobacco and 919 litres of alcohol, all believed to be illicit. HMRC officers, supported by police in Leicestershire and Trading ...
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Man’s finger severed in racist attack
Police in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, are appealing for information after a man was seriously assaulted at a petrol station. At just before 6am on Saturday 27 February police received a report that a 31-year-old Asian man had been attacked at the BP service station on Herringthorpe Valley Road in the ...
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Court rules Morrisons liable for attack by forecourt worker
The Supreme Court has ruled that Morrisons supermarket is liable for the actions of one of its petrol station workers who attacked a customer. According to court documents, Amjid Khan was working at the Morrisons petrol station at Small Heath, Birmingham, in 2008 when he punched and kicked Ahmed Mohamud. ...
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Murder investigation after Tesco car wash man’s death
A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a man who ran a Tesco car wash was discovered in a fire-damaged car in Essex. Police were called just before 5pm on Saturday, February 27 after the 30-year-old man’s body was found in a grey Audi A4 which was ...
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ACS slams Osborne over Sunday trading claim
Claims made by Chancellor George Osborne about the link between online shopping and Sunday trading have been shown to be wrong and misguided by new polling, according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). Polling of more than 2,000 consumers in January 2016 showed that two thirds of consumers had ...
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NewsChartman acquires Somerset service station
Top 50 Indie Chartman Retail has acquired Lydford Service Station on the A37 Lydford-On-Fosse, Somerset, from by Devizes Marina Village Limited for an undisclosed sum. West Country-based Chartman is ranked 40th in the Top 50 and the new acquisition takes it to a total of nine forecourts operated in Somerset, ...
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AA urges chancellor not to raise fuel duty
The AA has written to the Chancellor urging him to resist hitting motorists and businesses in the forthcoming 2016 budget on March 16. AA president Edmund King said he was concerned that the Chancellor might consider road fuel duty hikes as a ‘quick win’ to increase revenues. King said that ...
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Electric cars to cost less to run than petrol by 2025
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that continuing reductions in battery prices will bring the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles (EVs) below that for conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025, even with low oil prices. The study forecasts that global sales of electric vehicles will hit 41 ...