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Nearly one in 10 Brits admit to filling up their car with fuel and driving off without paying
The scale of drive-offs has been highlighted in new Freedom of Information data obtained by Confused.com from police forces across the UK, which reveals that motorists committed 25,560 fuel thefts in 2015 alone.According to the findings nearly one in 10 (8%) of drivers admitted to filling up their car with ...
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Truck’s cooling runs on thin air
Sainsbury’s says it has become the first company in the world to introduce a refrigerated delivery truck cooled by a liquid nitrogen powered engine, which will eliminate all emissions associated with refrigeration. Supplied by cooling technology specialists, Dearman, and its partners, the zero-emission cooling unit replaces the traditional diesel engine ...
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Snakes alive… on a forecourt
It’s true that you can find most things you want at many forecourts and their stores nowadays, but those visiting Waitrose’s petrol station in Cheltenham earlier this week got much more than they bargained for. That’s because a Royal python was found slithering on the ground.A local man who spotted ...
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Maxol announces AWARE as new charity partner
Maxol, the Northern Ireland-based forecourt and convenience retailer has announced mental health charity AWARE as their new charity partner.The aim of the partnership, which will run until at least the end of 2017, is to promote positive mental health in communities across Northern Ireland. It will support the range and ...
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Planning committee to visit proposed Asda forecourt site
Asda’s plans to add a forecourt to its Tonypandy supermarket in the Rhondda have so far attracted three letters of objection and a petition with 229 signatures. According to Walesonline.co.uk, this has led to members of Rhondda Cynon Taf council’s planning committee deciding to do a site visit on Monday, ...
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Circle K boosts its European presence
Canadian convenience and forecourt operator Alimentation Couche- Tard (known as Couche-Tard) has bought 23 sites comprising 11 full-service fuel stations with convenience stores and 12 automated fuel stations from Sevenoil Est OÜ and its affiliates in Estonia. The deal via Couche-Tard’s wholly-owned indirect subsidiary Circle K Eesti AS, is expected ...
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ACS wants more from Ofgem
ACS is calling on Ofgem to introduce a TPI (third party intermediaries) Code of Practice following publication of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) final report on reforms to the energy market. The CMA’s two-year investigation recommended a range of changes to make both the domestic and non-domestic energy markets ...
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NewsBusiness as usual after Brexit
As the dust settles after the EU Referendum, forecourt retailers have been taking stock – and most seem to be taking a ‘business as usual’ approach. Jonathan Tout, managing director of award winning Tout’s Budgens, said his company had ambitious growth plans and Brexit would not alter those. “In the ...
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Space to Change ‘first’ for Cornwall Services
One of Britain’s newest forecourts has become the first location of its type in the UK to install a new concept in disabled toilets. Cornwall Services, on the busy A30 trunk road near Bodmin, has opened a Space to Change assisted wheelchair-accessible toilet in its main building. Visitors needing ...
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Oh what a night!
On June 14, Phillips 66 and Jet proudly sponsored a ground-breaking children’s concert at the Royal Albert Hall, where 2,000 children from mainstream and special needs schools united to perform on stage for a night to remember. The ‘AC Academy Does the Royal Albert Hall’ was organised by ...
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Payback time for tobacco smuggler
A Lancashire man caught smuggling cigarettes and tobacco into the UK has been ordered to pay back £240,000, of which £90,000 must be paid within three months, or he will face a further 18 months in jail. Peter Robinson and his son, Adam, both of Rossendale, were jailed in ...
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CMA acts to cut energy costs
Measures to reduce energy bills for small businesses are being introduced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). In an investigation it found that many tariffs for smaller businesses are not published as they are negotiated between customer and supplier, so suppliers will now have to publish all prices ...
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Diesel pollution affected by temperature
Pollution from many popular diesel cars is much worse when the outside temperature is cooler than 18C, new research suggests. Experts have suggested the reason is that many engine management systems switch off or reduce pollution controls in lower temperatures. Very hot and cold weather can damage engine components, and ...
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NewsFuel prices rising after Brexit vote
Wholesale fuel prices could rise by 2-3ppl tonight (June 24) following the Brexit vote in yesterday’s referendum, PRA chairman Brian Madderson has warned. By mid morning sterling had recovered from a low of $1.30 to about $1.35, and he said that at this level the wholesale increase would be 2-3ppl, ...
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Forecourt Trader of the Year wins RIBA award
The winner of the 2015 Forecourt Trader of the Year Award has received further accolades, this time from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The Gloucester motorway service station on the M5 has won an RIBA National Award for its designer Glenn Howells Architects, and the owners Westmorland won ...
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Sewell on the go raises funds for Macmillan
A promotion by Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has raised £1,265.26 for Macmillan Cancer Support, as it marked the start of its partnership with the charity. The East Yorkshire forecourt operator donated 15 pence from every hot drink sold in all of its 12 stores from May 5-13, ...
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Speculation that Greenergy could be sold
Speculation that Greenergy could about to be sold has been sparked by a report from business news outlet Bloomberg. Quoting anonymous sources, it claimed Greenergy had hired ING Groep to advise it. The report also said that the process is at an early stage and the company may decide against ...
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ACS consults members over living wage
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has launched its 2016 National Living Wage and Minimum Wage survey as part of its evidence gathering process for a submission to the Low Pay Commission. The Commission has been tasked with looking at the impact of the introduction of the £7.20 per hour ...
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JTI launches app for retailers
JTI, whose tobacco brands include Benson & Hedges and Silk Cut, has expanded its digital offering with the creation of a new JTI Advance app. Designed with retailer needs at the forefront of its functionality, the app features a barcode scanner and fingerprint sign-in, a shopping list, a margin calculator ...
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Award for police who tackled forecourt lighter man
Two police officers who grappled with a drunken man to prevent him from blowing up a petrol station at Yeovil, Somerset, have been nominated for a national award for their bravery. Constable Rebecca Quirk and her tutor, constable Matthew Wilson, tackled the man who was brandishing a lighter at The ...