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Retailers to lobby Parliament over Sunday trading
Retailers are being encouraged to attend a mass lobby of Parliament on Monday 29 February to encourage their MPs to vote against changes to Sunday trading legislation. The mass lobby, being organised by campaign group Keep Sunday Special, will call on MPs from pivotal constituencies in the Sunday trading debate ...
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South Devon Highway opens
A new £110m bypass that is expected to carry 35,000 vehicles a day has been opened. The 3.5-mile South Devon Highway between Torbay and Newton Abbot was officially opened by roads minister Andrew Jones on 22 February. The project was completed on time and on budget and the Department of ...
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Sewell on the go supports local charity
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has provided support for a local charity in Hull which donates bikes for use in Africa. Since the Avenues Bicycle Project started collecting and sending bikes to the continent in 2012 the bikes had to be stored in sheds and garages across the ...
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Fuel thefts soar in Bedfordshire
Fuel thefts from forecourts almost trebled last year, according to figures released by Bedfordshire Police. A Freedom of Information request by Bedfordshire on Sunday to the police force shows that last year 603 thefts were recorded at petrol stations, compared with 219 in 2013-2014 and 200 in 2012-2013. A further ...
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NewsNFRN members back new newspaper
Members of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) London district have pledged their support for The New Day national newspaper ahead of its launch on Monday (February 29). Together with NFRN national president Ralph Patel (front left) and chief executive Paul Baxter (front second left), they can be seen ...
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ATM thieves cause enormous damage
Thieves have caused enormous damage to a forecourt shop in Northern Ireland as they forced the shutters and removed the door of a County Antrim petrol station to steal a cash machine. The thieves struck shortly before 2am on Friday, February 19, forcing their way into the petrol station on ...
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RAC warns motorists over insurance
The RAC has warned that many motorists could be invalidating their insurance because they have failed to inform their insurer about penalty points on their licence. Research by RAC Insurance found that nearly a fifth of motorists (18%) would not inform their insurer if they picked up penalty points while ...
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Gulf operator doubles estate
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 ...
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Planning decision on KDRB deferred
A decision on a planning application for a knock-down rebuild (KDRB) of a service station in North Lincolnshire has been deferred due to objections by the Environment Agency. The Neal Group submitted plans to redevelop the Southbank Service Station on Ferriby Road, Barton-upon-Humber. It applied for permission for “demolition of ...
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UK company unveils hydrogen powered car
A UK company has unveiled a hydrogen powered two-seater car with a range of up to 300 miles on 1.5kg of fuel. Trials of 20 vehicles with prospective customers are proposed for later this year, and the car, called a Rasa, is expected on the market from 2018 through a ...
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NewsRobbers strike at award-winning site
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 ...
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Don’t scrap retail rate relief, urges ACS
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the government to outline its plan for meaningful business rates reform and reinstate the Retail Rate Relief scheme as business rates income reaches record levels. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG ) released figures claiming that business rates income ...
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Irish fuel quality scheme expanded
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association (IPRA) has launched its Quality Assurance Scheme (QA) for petrol retailers in Dublin and Kildare. David Blevings, spokesperson for the IPRA, said: “We are delighted with the take-up of the QA scheme across the island with over 200 retailers taking part. The scheme offers ...
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NewsSaudi Russian deal unlikely to push prices up says PRA
The PRA has rejected suggestions that fuel prices will start to rise again as a result of a deal between the world’s two biggest oil exporters, Saudia Arabia and Russia. Yesterday (Tuesday 16 February) ministers from the two countries agreed to freeze the output of oil at current levels, in ...
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Garage offers reward to catch fuel thief
A service station has offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a suspected petrol thief. The incident happened at the Gulf petrol station, owned by JT Leavesley, in Rykneld Street, Alrewas, Staffordshire, at 2.45pm on Sunday, February 7. The man, who had dark facial hair ...
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PRA calls for business rates on hand car washes
The PRA has written to the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) protesting that it is “wilfully ignoring” a massive opportunity to levy business rates on hand car washes and that it could bring in £200m a year. PRA chairman Brian Madderson added: “If they do it by the end of ...
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Fire fighters brought in for fuel fraud raid
Fire fighters had to be included in a multi-agency team carrying out raids in Paisley as part of an investigation into fuel fraud. The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) led operation on Wednesday 10 February involved officers from Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, and lead ...
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NewsLincolnshire site wins best Shell garage prize
One of the longest established independently owned Shell garages picked up two awards at the Shell Conference. The Laurels Service Station, in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, has been a Shell station for more than 50 years, and the site was recently modernised and had extra facilities added. At the Shell Conference held ...
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NewsPetrol station owner jailed for tax 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 Road Service Station, was caught by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers with 2,843 litres of ...
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Men jailed over illegal filling station
Jail sentences totalling more than 10 years have been imposed on a West Midlands gang who evaded more than £900,000 in duty and taxes by running a huckster site (an illegal filling station). Frank Daly, 54, his son Jacob O’Callaghan, 26, and Danny Williams, 22, all from Wolverhampton, were arrested ...