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Sewell on the go opens first Subway
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has opened its first Subway franchise, at South Cave service station in Yorkshire, adding to the convenience offer at the site. The site, which reopened in November after a £1.5m extension, is a 24-hour one stop shop for all grocery and fuel needs. ...
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Fourth Essar-branded forecourt opens
Essar Oil (UK) has confirmed the opening of its fourth retail site, at Sale in Cheshire, since it entered the UK fuel supply sector. The station, which has been operated by the Akhtar family for the past five years, is located in a residential locality and Essar said it has ...
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NewsCertas Energy revamps Northampton bunkering
Certas Energy has reopened its bunkering facility at Lodge Farm Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Northampton, following an intensive three-month redevelopment project. Since its closure last October, the site has undergone a substantial refurbishment. It now offers full accessibility for HGVs, new card readers and AdBlue at pump, seven ...
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BOSS warns over cyber attack scam
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, is warning forecourt retailers to beware of extortionists after Action Fraud received reports from businesses who have been sent online extortion demands from scammers threatening a cyber-attack. The scammers who call themselves the “RepKiller Team” have been sending emails to businesses across the UK ...
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Welcome Break upgrades accessible toilets
State-of-the-art assisted accessible toilets have been installed at a number of Welcome Break motorway service stations. Welcome Break has installed Changing Places toilets to ensure that anyone who needs the help of a carer to go to the toilet now has suitable facilities. The Changing Places toilets have been installed ...
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Applegreen UK buys 68th site
Applegreen UK, which is currently ranked fifth in the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, has acquired its 68th forecourt, in Bath. The latest acquisition is Farleigh Service Station, which was sold by the Bristol office of Christie & Co on behalf of Anthony Ball and his sister Suzanne Rawlinson. Anthony’s ...
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NewsForecourt sells £18,500 of flowers in two weeks
A Jet site in Essex has carved out a lucrative business selling plants and flowers on its forecourt, with sales totalling £18,500 over Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. Janu Patel, owner of the New North Road site in Ilford, said flower sales equate to one fifth of the site’s total ...
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Supermarket growth stalls
share of the UK fuel market stalled in 2015 for the first time in more than 15 years, even though they added 40 new sites last year. The latest data from Experian Catalist shows their market share in 2015 was 43.8%, fractionally down on the 43.9% achieved in 2014 but ...
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Retailers jailed over fuel fraud
Jail sentences totalling more than 10 years have been imposed in two cases involving fuel fraud. A Blackburn filling station owner has been jailed for evading almost £200,000 in tax by selling hundreds of thousands of litres of illegal diesel to unsuspecting motorists. Nawaz Jan Virmani, 52, trading as Shadsworth ...
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Five hydrogen fuelling stations to open this year
Hydrogen fuel company ITM Power says it is scheduled to have five of its refuelling stations in operation in the UK by the end of the year, and a further three are in the final stages of negotiation. In a market update it said its first London refuelling station, at ...
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Sewell on the go launches Easter promotions
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has launched Easter themed promotions. Customers who buy three Easter eggs in any of the 12 Sewell on the go stores can enter a draw to win a family ticket to leading visitor attractions – The Deep, Yorkshire Wildlife Park or Alton Towers. ...
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Prices will stay low despite dea
The PRA has rejected suggestions that fuel prices will start to rise again as a result of a deal between two major oil producers, Saudia Arabia and Russia. Last month ministers from the two countries agreed to freeze the output of oil at current levels, in a deal that also ...
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Conference showcases Scottish hydrogen sector
Leading Scottish hydrogen projects are to be showcased in Aberdeen later this month. The Aberdeen Hydrogen Showcase will demonstrate the link between renewable energy, hydrogen, and transport in an event which will bring local authorities and industry together to explore achievements made to date and future opportunities. The conference, which ...
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NewsPetrol prices forecast to remain low as diesel climbs
Increased petrol production should keep pump prices pegged down in March, while the price of diesel is likely to move back above petrol, according to the latest RAC Fuel Watch report. It said the average price of petrol fell slightly in February, marking eight consecutive months of falls. From the ...
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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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News in brief
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 ...