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Ultra low emission vehicle sales booming
Sales of ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the UK have grown strongly, although they still only account for 1% of all new vehicles registrations, according to the latest report released by the Department for Transport. In the first quarter of 2016, 11,755 ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) were registered in the ...
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£21bn a year spent on maintaining UK cars
British cars are among the best maintained in the world, with UK motorists spending a collective £21.1bn a year on servicing and repair, according to a new report. The report, The Importance of the Aftermarket to the UK Economy, was commissioned by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) ...
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Germany “needs” to phase out new petrol and diesel cars by 2030
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars in Germany will have to be phased out by 2030, in order for it to meet pollution targets, a minister has warned. Deputy economy minister Rainer Baake said all new cars registered in Germany will have to be emissions free by 2030 if ...
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Robbers smash their way in to forecourt shop
A cashier has been left badly shaken after a gang of robbers smashed their way into a Lancashire forecourt shop and stole cigarettes.Detectives say they are hunting for four men after the attack at Ansdell Service Station, in Church Road, St Annes, on Tuesday June 7.Detective constable Duncan Worsley said ...
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Spar and Subway open on site gutted by fire
A family owned forecourt business on Anglesey, north Wales, has fully reopened exactly a year after it was completely gutted in a devastating fire. The site had to be rebuilt after the fire on June 3, last year, and initially opened four weeks later with a temporary shop. The Texaco ...
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NewsEuro Garages outlines expansion plans
Bosses of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages have outlined their plans for the future as its joint CEOs received an international award for their leadership in convenience retailing. Commercial director Ilyas Munshi said Euro Garages had access to 1,100 forecourt sites across France and Benelux, and was poised to expand ...
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NewsDiesel duty hike furore: the facts
National press furore this week over proposed hikes in diesel fuel duty appear to have been over-hyped and full of misinformation, following some careless comments by transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin. They stemmed from an article in the Evening Standard, which was then picked up by most national newspapers, and many ...
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Government fails to deliver promised plug-in motorcycle grants
The National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA) has written to transport minister Andrew Jones, raising its concerns that the promised plug-in motorcycle grant scheme has still not been delivered. In March 2015, under the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government, the then business minister Matthew Hancock announced that motorcycles and scooters ...
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Applegreen wins international convenience retailer award
Applegreen has won the NACS Insight 2016 International Convenience Retailer of the Year Award for its recently opened M1 Lisburn Motorway Service Area in Northern Ireland. The award, sponsored by Accenture, was presented during the NACS Insight Convenience Summit – Europe in London on June 9 at this year’s International ...
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UKPIA publishes annual statistical review
UKPIA (UK Petroleum Industry Association) has published its annual review of the downstream oil industry. The Statistical Review 2016, which in its 14th year of publication, contains a compilation of UK downstream oil industry statistics. Andrea Leadsom, minister of state for energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, ...
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Wayne Fueling Systems sold for $780m
The American Dover corporation has made its third major acquisition this year in the fuel retail sector with the purchase of Wayne Fueling Systems for $780m. Last month Dover’s subsidiary OPW took over wetstock management specialist Fairbanks and earlier this year it also acquired the dispenser and systems divisions of ...
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PRA protests about plans to introduce E10
The PRA has written to transport minister Andrew Jones, raising its concerns that government ministers are drawing up plans to introduce new ‘green petrol’, in a move which will push up costs for UK fuel retailers and may force some out of business. As Forecourt Trader reported on Wednesday, members ...
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Pump prices growing less than wholesale prices
Prices at the pumps grew far less than wholesale fuel prices in May, according to a new report by the RAC. Its analysis of Experian Catalist average prices from 3 May to 31 May 2016 reveals that the average unleaded pump price rose 1.92ppl from 108.67ppl to 110.59ppl. The average ...
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Triple stabbing on Liverpool forecourt
Three men with stab injuries have been found at a petrol station in West Derby, Liverpool. Police were alerted to the incident by paramedics at around midnight on June 6 and on arrival at Larkhill Filling Station on Queens Drive found three men being treated for injuries to their upper ...
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Illicit cigarette consumption in UK up
An almost 300% increase in counterfeit cigarette volume has driven a second consecutive annual rise in UK black market cigarette consumption, according to a KPMG report published today (June 8). It estimates 16% of all cigarettes now consumed in the UK are either contraband or counterfeit. The overall volume of ...
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Reports of Norway banning fossil fuel cars debunked
Reports that Norway will ban the sale of diesel and petrol-powered cars by 2025 have been debunked by news website The Local. News outlets such as The Independent and CNBC carried reports that politicians had agreed on the ban after the Dagens Næringsliv (Today’s Business) newspaper reported that the government ...
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ACS welcomes retail banking report
A report into retail banking services by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has been welcomed by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). ACS supports the CMA’s provisional recommendations to encourage competition among retail banks, improve transparency in finance offers, and make it easier for businesses to compare and switch ...
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New car registrations up 2.5% in May
The number of car sales continued its upward climb in May with a 2.5% growth in registrations, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). It said 203,585 cars were registered in the month, May’s highest total since 2002.Following the trend set in the previous two months, fleet ...
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NewsMPs told E10 should be introduced next year
The Government will have to up the amount of biofuel in petrol and diesel in order to meet the EU’s renewable energy targets, MPs have been told. The industry has been preparing for the introduction of E10 petrol for a number of years, but there has been opposition because it ...
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Jet service station lays on egg vending machine
Click and collect services are on the increase across UK forecourts, but Jet’s Border Cars forecourt in Dumfries has gone the ‘eggstra’ mile by introducing a collection service with a difference: an egg vending machine. Border Cars believes it is the first forecourt in Scotland to introduce this ‘cluck and ...