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Rontec customers raise £250k for the RNIB
The RNIB is celebrating a partnership with Top 50 Indie Rontec that has raised £250,000 for the charity in just six months. The RNIB’s Pennies scheme, which ran across the group’s 160 Shop’ N Drive stores, gave customers the option to ’top-up’ credit or debit cards transactions with a 25p ...
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Petrol price down 1.6ppl over October
The average price of petrol fell for the fourth consecutive month with a further 1.6ppl being shaved off in October, according to the latest RAC Fuel Watch data. Unleaded finished the month at 107.82ppl, down from 109.45ppl at the start, but diesel, however, only reduced fractionally in October from ...
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Essar Oil fined £500,000
Essar Oil (UK), which operates Stanlow Oil Refinery in Ellesmere Port, has been fined nearly £500,000 for breaches of environmental regulations. The company was sentenced at Chester Crown Court following a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was fined £497,284 and ordered to pay costs of £40,000 in ...
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Roadchef opens second motorway Spar store
Roadchef’s Northampton motorway services area on the M1/A43, has become the second of its sites to open Spar store, following the launch of the concept at Strensham on the M5 in July.It offers motoring customers grocery items and a selection of artisan products, and has also has created 20 new ...
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NewsChartman Group gets behind ’honk if you’re hairy’ Movember campaign
’Movember’, the men’s health fundraising campaign, which hopes to make November the ’hairiest month of the year’, is being supported once again by the Exeter-based Chartman Group, which is always keen to put itself on the map with its various publicity and fundraising campaigns. This year it is attracting ...
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Police approval for BOSS reporting system
The BOSS Electronic Reporting System (ERS) has secured accreditation from Secured by Design, to demonstrate that it has been successfully tested to the highest standards and meets Police Preferred Specification.The BOSS ERS enables forecourt retailers to report and send details of incidents to police online, including vital supporting evidence from ...
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Phillips 66 upgrades mobile app for wholesale collect customers
Phillips 66 has upgraded its mobile app to incorporate a lifting limits function – which it claims is the first of its kind in the UK. The upgrade follows the successful launch of its ‘My Phillips 66’ upgraded extranet portal and pricing app in 2014. The upgraded app went live ...
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Welcome Break CEO plans 24-hour endurance challenge for Children in Need
Welcome Break CEO Rod McKie, is planning to undertake a 24 hour endurance challenge to raise money for BBC Children in Need. He will travel across the country, visiting all 27 Welcome Break service stations and completing a series of individual tasks along the way.Welcome Break is an official partner ...
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NewsMorrisons to pilot shops on MFG sites
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner Morrisons with a pilot a convenience food offer in five of its forecourts.The pilot will start by the end of the year and will involve Morrisons supplying branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores.The shops, all above 1,200 sq.ft, ...
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Cash box stolen from security man on forecourt
Merseyside Police are appealing for information after a robber made off with a cash box taken from a security guard during a raid at a Liverpool petrol station. Police were called to the Shell garage in Smithdown Road, Wavertree, at around 11.40am on Friday October 23. A member of staff ...
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Attempted theft of ATM fails
Officers from Police Scotland in Aberdeenshire have appealed for witnesses following the attempted theft of an ATM at the Aboyne Filling Station, Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The ATM was targeted at around 1:45am on Sunday 25 October 2015. The attempt was unsuccessful and the thieves fled the scene without any cash. Detective ...
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NewsAsda cuts fuel prices to five-year low
Asda has cut its fuel prices to the lowest level in five years, taking 2ppl off unleaded petrol and 1ppl on diesel from today (Monday 26th October) – meaning its national ceiling on prices is 103.7ppl on unleaded and 106.7ppl on diesel.Coinciding with the cut the retailer has called on ...
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Tobacco smuggler jailed after extradition
A former County Durham milkman, who masterminded a plot to smuggle ten million illicit cigarettes into the UK, has been jailed after being extradited from Thailand by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to face justice.Paul Joyce, 41, originally from Consett, fled to the Far East in 2008, only hours before ...
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NewsSupermarkets gaining market share says AA
The AA has praised the supermarkets for keeping fuel prices low and says their policy has helped them win market share from other fuel retailers. In its latest monthly fuel price update it says average unleaded petrol prices fell for the fourth month in a row, dropping from 111.16ppl in ...
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Minister predicts low emission era
Transport minister Andrew Jones has told fleet managers he wants the next five years to be remembered as the dawn of the ultra low emission vehicle (ULEV) era. He told the Go Ultra Low Fleet Managers Summit that the UK was the fastest growing market for electric vehicles in ...
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NewsForecourt CCTV clip is YouTube hit
CCTV of a customer who managed to tip her car onto two wheels while exiting a petrol station is approaching a million views on YouTube after going viral. The incident took place at Forecourt Trader award winning Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, earlier this week, and was ...
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RAC calls for greater price cuts
The RAC has criticised retailers for not making bigger cuts in prices after the three supermarkets groups cut 1ppl from their fuel prices earlier in the week. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: “While this is more good news for motorists, we would like retailers to make bigger cuts ...
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Top 50 Indie slams minimum wage list
A Top 50 Indie, which was included in a list “naming and shaming” companies for not paying the national minimum wage, has slammed the exercise as a publicity stunt that did not tell the full story. The Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) issued the list which featured ...
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£2.7bn lost to illicit alcohol and tobacco
HMRC estimates that £2.7bn was lost in excise duty due to illicit tobacco and alcohol in the 2013-14 tax year. The latest HMRC Tax Gaps report also said there had been a £0.1bn reduction in duty lost through illicit alcohol, but a £0.1bn increase in the level of duty ...
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New food safety qualifications launched
New regulated food safety qualifications that enable workers, supervisors and managers in the catering, sectors to learn how they can ensure food safety standards have been launched by the British Safety Council. The Level 2 Awards in Food Safety in Catering, Retail and Manufacturing enable staff in workplaces such as ...