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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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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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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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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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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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Attempted robbery in Hampshire
Police in Hampshire are appealing for witnesses following the attempted robbery of a service station in Park Gate, Fareham. A man wearing a balaclava and carrying a blue carrier bag entered Locks Heath Service Station, on Bridge Road, at 3.30am on February 10. He approached the female shop assistant and ...
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Minister claims strong backing for electrification
There is near uniform agreement in government that vehicle electrification is the way forward to reduce emissions, according to Oliver Letwin, Cabinet Office minister for government policy. He was responding to questions from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee. Letwin was invited to address the committee following ...
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Competition body probes supermarket deals
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued a statement saying that contrary to speculation in the media, it is not contemplating banning supermarket buy-one-get-one-free deals and special offers. It explained: “Rather, the CMA responded to a super-complaint from Which? in April 2015 and is currently working with businesses to ...
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Certas parent reports strong profits
DCC plc, the international conglomerate that owns Certas Energy, has reported strong growth in profits for the third quarter of its financial year. In its statement said that group operating profit in the third quarter ended 31 December 2015 was very significantly ahead of the prior year, with excellent growth ...
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Knifeman threatens woman customer on forecourt
Lancashire Constabulary has released CCTV images of a man it would like to speak to after a woman was threatened with a knife as she got into her car at a petrol station in Burnley. The incident happened at around 6pm on Wednesday 10 February after the victim, a 22-year-old ...
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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 ...
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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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ACS slams bid to justify Sunday trading change
Government attempts to justify relaxing Sunday trading regulations have been ridiculed by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), and it has called on MPs to reject the proposed change. The Department for Business (BIS) published its response to the consultation on liberalising Sunday Trading, but the ACS said it had ...
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Woman dies after forecourt collision
A woman has died and a man is seriously ill in hospital after a minor collision at a service station on the A27 near Lewes in East Sussex on Sunday February 7. Police said minor damage was caused to a blue Toyota Aygo and a silver Renault Kangoo with French ...
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Armed robber wields baseball bat
Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a petrol station in Taunton. The incident happened on Saturday February 6 at the Texaco petrol station on Wellington New Road shortly after 1.10pm. A man entered the petrol station shop and demanded that the woman behind ...
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Bungling ram raiders steal empty ATM
A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a ram raid at the BP garage on the A134 in Sudbury, Suffolk, where a cashpoint machine was stolen. Suffolk Police were alerted around 2.40am on Tuesday 9 February, to reports of a ram raid at the premises on the Chilton Industrial Estate. ...
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NewsFormer Esso retail boss Karen Dickens to join MRH as CEO
MRH (GB) has announced the appointment of Karen Dickens as chief executive officer of the company with effect from the 1st of March 2016. Karen has previously held a number of senior managerial positions within ExxonMobil Corporation, both in the UK and abroad, in a career spanning 29 years; her ...
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HKS recruits former BP retail director
Former BP retail director Graham Sims has been appointed non-executive chairman of HKS Holdings to lead a new accelerated investment, growth and development strategy. HKS, which will be ranked sixth in the new Top 50 Indies published later this month, is owned by the Thakrar family and Graham commented: “I ...
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NewsForecourt canopies battered by Storm Imogen
Forecourts took a battering in the 90mph winds of Storm Imogen with several having to close because of damage to their canopies. In Cheddar Valley, the Simply Fresh/BP site at Weare had to close at 1pm on Tuesday after the wind ripped a panel off the underside of the canopy. ...
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Car sales highest in January for 11 years
New car registrations in January in the UK climbed 2.9% compared with the same month in 2015, and were the highest in January for 11 years at 169,678 units. Private and business buyers drove this growth with demand for new cars up by 8.2% to 73,061 and 5.0% to 6,716 ...