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Consultation begins on minimum wage rates
The Low Pay Commission has launched its consultation on the level of the UK’s minimum wage and National Living Wage rates for 2017-18. In the consultation, the Commission will consider the target given to it by the Chancellor of increasing wages to 60% of median earnings by 2020. The Commission ...
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Trade bodies oppose MOT change
Trade bodies have met with an MP to present a case against plans to increase the age before cars require an MOT. The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) and Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA) met with Drew Hendry MP, Scottish National Party (SNP) Transport spokesperson in the House of Commons. ...
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Sewell on the go installs defibrillators
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has installed potentially life-saving defibrillators in six of its 12 stores at locations across Hull and the East Riding. Patrick Sewell, managing director of Sewell on the go, said: “We have defibrillators in place at Sewell on the go in Cottingham, Chanterlands Avenue, ...
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Lighting strike shuts down Morrisons site
A Morrisons forecourt in Kent was closed on Wednesday 13 April after the main store was struck by lightning. Fire fighters, along with Kent Police and ambulances, were called to the store in Ten Perch Road to investigate reports the main building had been struck twice by lightning and ...
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NewsPolice appeal over Leeds robbery
West Yorkshire Police yesterday (April 12) appealed for witnesses, and released CCTV pictures, in relation to a robbery at a petrol station on Pontefract Road, Stourton, Leeds, which took place on Sunday March 20. The incident happened between 4.15am and 04.20am when two men went into the store and threatened ...
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Scottish motorway services awarded drinks licence
One of Scotland’s busiest motorway service areas (MSA) has won a drinks licence despite objectors claiming it could lead to alcohol being consumed at the MSA. The licence has been granted to the Marks & Spencer Simply Food at Moto services on the M9 at Junction 9 at Bannockburn, where ...
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NewsMRH site named sixth best forecourt design in the world
A site owned by Top 50 Indie MRH has been named as the sixth best-designed forecourt in the world. The accolade was awarded by London-based DesignCurial magazine, which drew up a top 10 of the world’s best forecourt designs. MRH St Paul’s, in Birstall, Leicestershire, was ranked sixth, and was ...
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NewsPRA rebuts profiteering claims
The PRA has reacted angrily to claims that fuel retailers are profiteering after rises of 4ppl in average retail fuel prices over the last month, and said dealers are doing everything they can to keep prices down. PRA chairman Brian Madderson commented: “The oil market has rebounded strongly pushing up ...
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Euro Garages founders crowned leaders of the year
Zuber and Mohsin Issa, CEOs of Top 50 Indie Euro Garages, have won a prestigious award presented by NACS (National Association of Convenience Stores) in the US. They have been have jointly named the 2016 NACS Insight European Convenience Industry Leader of the Year, and the award will be presented ...
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Motorbike sales level off
Sales of motorbikes levelled off last month after strong growth at the beginning of the year. Stephen Latham, head of the National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA), which represents motorcycle retailers across the UK, commented: “Following a strong start to 2016, the NMDA had high expectations that March would follow ...
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Royal Vopak storage sites sold
A Greenergy joint venture company, Navigator Terminals, has completed the acquisition of Royal Vopak’s UK storage assets at West Thurrock on the Thames, Seal Sands at Teesside and Windmill in Barry, South Wales. It has also taken over Greenergy North Tees from Greenergy. Navigator Terminals was formed by Macquarie Capital ...
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Petrol station owner fined more than £4,000
A petrol station owner has been fined more than £4,000 after he was prosecuted by East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. Sultan Hayat, the owner of Bexhill Service Station, Barnhorn Road, Bexhill, pleaded guilty at Eastbourne Magistrates Court on Friday 1 April to two offences of failing to comply with ...
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ACS welcomes energy market proposals
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed proposals to end rollover contracts in the energy market and ensure that small businesses are provided with competitive quotes for their gas and electricity. It was responding to the Competition and Market Authority’s consultation on its energy market investigation. The investigation, which ...
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BOC to provide infrastructure for hydrogen refuelling stations
BOC, the UK’s largest supplier of industrial gases, has signed a deal to provide infrastructure for ITM Power’s new hydrogen refuelling stations for passenger cars. BOC, a member of The Linde Group, will use its specialist market knowledge to source and install the most appropriate technology including hydrogen compressors and ...
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New car sales break record
The UK’s new car market grew by 5.3% in March, making it the biggest ever month since the six monthly plate change began in 1999, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 518,707 new cars were registered in March, which is ...
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Horse safety campaign launched on forecourt
A campaign by The British Horse Society (BHS) asking drivers to slow down for horse and rider has been launched from the forecourt of Jet Cotgrave, Nottingham. As a continuation of the campaign, petrol pump advertising will be rolled out to 96 supermarket petrol forecourts across the UK, reaching a ...
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NewsThames Oilport takes first delivery of diesel
Thames Oilport has taken receipt of a diesel shipment for the first time since the closure of the Coryton refinery. It is the first in a series of diesel shipments to be stored on site. Coryton had supplied 20% of London and the South East’s fuel but its owner Petroplus ...
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Explosion at former service station site
Emergency services were called to a former petrol station in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, after reports of an explosion. After a call at about 12.30pm on Thursday April 7, firefighters from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service attended the site on Tamworth Road, together with a paramedic car, followed by an ambulance ...
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Lawyer warns of National Living Wage risk
A new blog post by specialist food and drink solicitors, Roythornes, has warned that employers could find themselves in hot water if they use new National Living Wage (NLW) legislation as a reason to make employees redundant. In the piece, Roythornes associate Maz Dannourah sets out a range of considerations ...
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Applegreen turnover tops €1bn
Turnover at Applegreen plc has topped 1bn in its first set of full-year results since its flotation in June last year. Turnover for the year to 31 December 2015 was up 15% to 1,081m, compared with 937m the previous year, and adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) ...