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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Electric cars to cost less to run than petrol by 2025
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that continuing reductions in battery prices will bring the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles (EVs) below that for conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025, even with low oil prices. The study forecasts that global sales of electric vehicles will hit 41 ...
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AA urges chancellor not to raise fuel duty
The AA has written to the Chancellor urging him to resist hitting motorists and businesses in the forthcoming 2016 budget on March 16. AA president Edmund King said he was concerned that the Chancellor might consider road fuel duty hikes as a ‘quick win’ to increase revenues. King said that ...
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NewsChartman acquires Somerset service station
Top 50 Indie Chartman Retail has acquired Lydford Service Station on the A37 Lydford-On-Fosse, Somerset, from by Devizes Marina Village Limited for an undisclosed sum. West Country-based Chartman is ranked 40th in the Top 50 and the new acquisition takes it to a total of nine forecourts operated in Somerset, ...
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ACS slams Osborne over Sunday trading claim
Claims made by Chancellor George Osborne about the link between online shopping and Sunday trading have been shown to be wrong and misguided by new polling, according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). Polling of more than 2,000 consumers in January 2016 showed that two thirds of consumers had ...
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Murder investigation after Tesco car wash man’s death
A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a man who ran a Tesco car wash was discovered in a fire-damaged car in Essex. Police were called just before 5pm on Saturday, February 27 after the 30-year-old man’s body was found in a grey Audi A4 which was ...
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Man’s finger severed in racist attack
Police in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, are appealing for information after a man was seriously assaulted at a petrol station. At just before 6am on Saturday 27 February police received a report that a 31-year-old Asian man had been attacked at the BP service station on Herringthorpe Valley Road in the ...
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Court rules Morrisons liable for attack by forecourt worker
The Supreme Court has ruled that Morrisons supermarket is liable for the actions of one of its petrol station workers who attacked a customer. According to court documents, Amjid Khan was working at the Morrisons petrol station at Small Heath, Birmingham, in 2008 when he punched and kicked Ahmed Mohamud. ...
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HMRC crackdown in Leicester
A two-day operation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco and alcohol in Leicester, has uncovered more than 30,600 cigarettes, 51kg of tobacco and 919 litres of alcohol, all believed to be illicit. HMRC officers, supported by police in Leicestershire and Trading ...