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PRA launches comprehensive online training programme
The Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has joined forces with the Safety Pass Alliance (SPA) to offer a comprehensive online training programme for all forecourt operators and their employees. The e-learning package, developed in association with the SPA by the PRA’s technical team, Phil Monger and Ray Blake, gives employees a ...
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New fuel card offers foolproof reminders
Foolproof, the latest fuel card trialled by The Fuelcard People, gives drivers a great way to avoid forgetting key dates. The card stores significant events, such as birthdays and anniversaries, as well as notes suggesting suitable gifts. When refuelling, a driver is reminded of the day’s important occasion and can ...
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ACS warns of impact of National Living Wage
The National Living Wage, which came into force today (1 April), will have a serious impact on the convenience store sector, the ACS has warned. For all employees aged 25 and over, the new minimum rate of pay will be £7.20 per hour. The Chancellor announced the National Living Wage ...
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Pothole problem under-reported
The AA says that research among its members underlines the extent to which road hazards such as potholes are under-reported. Nearly three quarters of AA members have swerved to avoid a pothole but only a fifth have ever reported one, new AA-Populus research reveals. A survey of 25,208 AA members ...
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NewsTrial of motorway price signs starts
Signs showing the price of fuel at up-coming motorway service stations have been introduced on a section of the M5 between Bristol and Exeter. The electronic signs will show the real-time price of fuel along the southbound carriageway of the motorway. Five motorway service stations along the route are involved ...
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Two men rob Wakefield service station
Police are appealing for witnesses after a robbery at the service station on Jacob’s Well Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of Tuesday (29 March). It happened at 3.10am when two men forced open a door and went to the counter where a member of staff was present. ...
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Car makers missing emissions targets
PA Consulting Group’s annual forecast of car manufacturers’ performance against mandatory EU CO2 emissions targets suggests Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai-Kia and Jaguar Land Rover will miss their 2021 targets, leaving them facing large fines and further reputational damage. In PA’s most recent ranking of the top 13 European carmakers’ performance against ...
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Hydrogen car breaks distance records
The government-backed London Hydrogen Network Expansion project (LHNE) has broken two new distance records for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Working together, the partners of the LHNE project have broken the record for the longest journey in the UK on a single tank of hydrogen, travelling 400 miles, and ...
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Major alert after incident at Texaco site
Police, paramedics and fire crews were scrambled to a major alert at the Texaco service station at Old Trafford after a member of staff was blasted with dry powder through a night pay window. The terrified member of staff thought he’d been covered with a dangerous chemical, but the emergency ...
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100th alcohol scheme launched
This week, Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAP) will launch its 100th scheme, in Biggleswade. The launch marks the introduction of Central Bedfordshire’s first CAP, as well as celebrating the success of CAPs across the country in tackling alcohol-related harm in local communities. There is growing concern around the levels of underage ...
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Knife used in raid on Esso site
A knife was used during a robbery at a service station at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of Saturday 19 March. Nottinghamshire Police were called just before 3.40am to a report of a man threatening staff at the Esso service station in London Road, Retford with a knife. The ...
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Sainsbury’s to develop three Rontec sites
Sainsbury’s is planning to open three new Sainsbury’s Local convenience stores and petrol stations, after it acquired the sites from Top 50 Indie Rontec. Rontec will act as Sainsbury’’s development partner, and all three schemes have been granted planning permission. The new convenience stores and petrol stations will be located ...
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C-store retailer optimism growing
Retailer optimism is growing despite falling sales, according to the latest finding of the Association of Convenience Stores’ (ACS) Voice of Local Shops survey. The research, based on interviews with 1,240 independent retailers each quarter, explores retailer optimism, recent sales experience, crime committed in stores, and retailers’ community activity. Key ...
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Stolen car used to smash way into forecourt shop
Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a burglary at a petrol station in Norwich. Police were called to the incident on Middletons Lane on Friday 18 March at around 3.45am after an unknown number of suspects smashed a stolen car into the shop to force entry and stole a quantity ...
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Maxol to open three Post Office branches
A new Post Office branch has been opened at Maxol Townparks Service Station in Antrim, Northern Ireland. The branch is the first to serve the community around Ballymena Road, and is the first of three new-style local Post Office branches to open within the Maxol network in Northern Ireland. Post ...
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Alimentation Couche-Tard buys Shell’s Danish retail arm
Canadian multinational Alimentation Couche-Tard, which recently bought Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer Topaz Energy Group, has received European Commission approval for its deal to acquire Shell’s downstream retail business in Denmark, subject to divestment commitments. Completion of the acquisition is expected to occur in May 2016. It will be ...
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Two staff hurt during Accrington robbery
Two members of staff were hurt during a knifepoint robbery at a filling station in Accrington, Lancashire. At about 9.40pm on Sunday, March 20th, two men entered the Spar store of the forecourt on Burnley Road, and one grabbed a female member of staff from behind and demanded she open ...
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£38.2m for research into ultra low emission vehicles
The winning bids for a share of £38.2m to develop plug-in cars and cut emissions have been announced by the Government. It said Formula 1 technology could soon make family cars lighter, improve fuel efficiency and help plug-in vehicles go further – as a result of one of the research ...
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NewsStrike threatening Scottish fuel supplies is suspended
A strike at the Port of Grangemouth, which threatened to disrupt fuel supplies to forecourts in Scotland and northern England, has been suspended. Scotland’s only oil refinery is situated at Grangemouth and Unite had claimed tanker drivers were refusing to cross picket lines, and that fuel supplies would be affected. ...
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NewsStrike threatens supplies in Scotland
Fuel supplies to forecourts in Scotland and the north of England could be hit by a strike by dockers at the Port of Grangemouth, the Unite union has claimed. Scotland’s only oil refinery is situated at Grangemouth and Unite claims tanker drivers are refusing to cross picket lines. ...