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Hydrogen car breaks distance records
The government-backed London Hydrogen Network Expansion project (LHNE) has broken two new distance records for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Working together, the partners of the LHNE project have broken the record for the longest journey in the UK on a single tank of hydrogen, travelling 400 miles, and ...
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Car makers missing emissions targets
PA Consulting Group’s annual forecast of car manufacturers’ performance against mandatory EU CO2 emissions targets suggests Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai-Kia and Jaguar Land Rover will miss their 2021 targets, leaving them facing large fines and further reputational damage. In PA’s most recent ranking of the top 13 European carmakers’ performance against ...
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Two men rob Wakefield service station
Police are appealing for witnesses after a robbery at the service station on Jacob’s Well Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in the early hours of Tuesday (29 March). It happened at 3.10am when two men forced open a door and went to the counter where a member of staff was present. ...
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NewsTrial of motorway price signs starts
Signs showing the price of fuel at up-coming motorway service stations have been introduced on a section of the M5 between Bristol and Exeter. The electronic signs will show the real-time price of fuel along the southbound carriageway of the motorway. Five motorway service stations along the route are involved ...
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Pothole problem under-reported
The AA says that research among its members underlines the extent to which road hazards such as potholes are under-reported. Nearly three quarters of AA members have swerved to avoid a pothole but only a fifth have ever reported one, new AA-Populus research reveals. A survey of 25,208 AA members ...
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£38.2m for research into ultra low emission vehicles
The winning bids for a share of £38.2m to develop plug-in cars and cut emissions have been announced by the Government. It said Formula 1 technology could soon make family cars lighter, improve fuel efficiency and help plug-in vehicles go further – as a result of one of the research ...
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Two staff hurt during Accrington robbery
Two members of staff were hurt during a knifepoint robbery at a filling station in Accrington, Lancashire. At about 9.40pm on Sunday, March 20th, two men entered the Spar store of the forecourt on Burnley Road, and one grabbed a female member of staff from behind and demanded she open ...
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Alimentation Couche-Tard buys Shell’s Danish retail arm
Canadian multinational Alimentation Couche-Tard, which recently bought Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer Topaz Energy Group, has received European Commission approval for its deal to acquire Shell’s downstream retail business in Denmark, subject to divestment commitments. Completion of the acquisition is expected to occur in May 2016. It will be ...
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Maxol to open three Post Office branches
A new Post Office branch has been opened at Maxol Townparks Service Station in Antrim, Northern Ireland. The branch is the first to serve the community around Ballymena Road, and is the first of three new-style local Post Office branches to open within the Maxol network in Northern Ireland. Post ...
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Stolen car used to smash way into forecourt shop
Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a burglary at a petrol station in Norwich. Police were called to the incident on Middletons Lane on Friday 18 March at around 3.45am after an unknown number of suspects smashed a stolen car into the shop to force entry and stole a quantity ...
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C-store retailer optimism growing
Retailer optimism is growing despite falling sales, according to the latest finding of the Association of Convenience Stores’ (ACS) Voice of Local Shops survey. The research, based on interviews with 1,240 independent retailers each quarter, explores retailer optimism, recent sales experience, crime committed in stores, and retailers’ community activity. Key ...
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Sainsbury’s to develop three Rontec sites
Sainsbury’s is planning to open three new Sainsbury’s Local convenience stores and petrol stations, after it acquired the sites from Top 50 Indie Rontec. Rontec will act as Sainsbury’’s development partner, and all three schemes have been granted planning permission. The new convenience stores and petrol stations will be located ...
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Knife used in raid on Esso site
A knife was used during a robbery at a service station at Retford, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours of Saturday 19 March. Nottinghamshire Police were called just before 3.40am to a report of a man threatening staff at the Esso service station in London Road, Retford with a knife. The ...
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NewsStrike threatening Scottish fuel supplies is suspended
A strike at the Port of Grangemouth, which threatened to disrupt fuel supplies to forecourts in Scotland and northern England, has been suspended. Scotland’s only oil refinery is situated at Grangemouth and Unite had claimed tanker drivers were refusing to cross picket lines, and that fuel supplies would be affected. ...
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Welcome Break renames bridge after Radio 1 presenter
The Scott Mills Bridge was officially opened on Wednesday March 17 at Welcome Break’s Fleet services, by Chris Stark, co-presenter on the Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1. Welcome Break made the decision to re-name the footbridge at its Fleet services, located on the M3 motorway at junctions ...
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C-store crime costing sector £122m
The 2016 ACS Crime Report has revealed that crime against local shops is costing an estimated £122m, or £2,370 per store. On top of this, the average store is investing £1,379 in crime prevention. The total costs of crime and crime prevention equate to the cost of employing more ...
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Topaz unveils own brand AdBlue
Ireland’s largest fuel and convenience retailer Topaz, has launched its own brand AdBlue product which is now available across its network of more than 340 service stations. AdBlue fill points have been introduced to most new diesel vehicles in Ireland, including tractors in 2012 and new cars last year. AdBlue, ...
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NewsArmed robber strikes in Trowbridge
Wiltshire Police are appealing for information after an armed robbery at Yarnbrook Filling Station, in Trowbridge. Police received a call at 11.55pm on Tuesday 15 March reporting a robbery at the site. A man, who was wearing a balaclava and carrying what appeared to be a black handgun, approached ...
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Minister praises rapid chargepoint network
The UK has the most comprehensive rapid chargepoint network for electric vehicles in Europe, according to transport minister Andrew Jones. Speaking at Smarter Travel Live at the Arena MK in Milton Keynes, he said: “Plug-in vehicle registrations reached a record high in 2015, as 29,972 new ULEVs [ultra low ...
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PRA welcomes lifeline for small filling stations
“A potential lifeline for small independent petrol filling stations” is the way the PRA has described the concessionary rates relief scheme announced by the Chancellor in his 2016 Budget. Small petrol filling stations (PFS) have been under intense pressure according to the PRA. It said a study carried out with ...