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NewsCanadian giant buys Topaz
Topaz Energy Group, Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, is being taken over by the Canadian convenience and fuel retailing giant Alimentation Couche-Tard, in a deal believed to worth about €450m (£324m). The two companies have signed an agreement that will lead to the acquisition by the Canadian company of ...
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Worker in hospital after suspected robbery
A member of staff injured in a suspected robbery at Blurton Filling Station, Stoke-on-Trent, had to be treated in hospital. Staffordshire Police said a 29-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery following an incident at the BP branded site. Police were called to the location just after 4.10am ...
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Fuel fraudsters told to pay back £6.9m
Three men jailed for 13 years for their part in a multi-million pound fuel and VAT fraud have been ordered to pay back almost £6.9m or face more time behind bars. Michael Wilmot, 73, led the Lincolnshire gang that was jailed in July 2014 after an investigation by HM Revenue ...
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Robbers steal safe from filling station
Detectives have appealed for information after masked robbers stole a safe from a service station in Durham. The robbery happened at the Jet garage in Bowburn, Durham, at around 12.15am on Monday, November 30. A female shop assistant was at the rear of the premises when she was confronted by ...
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NewsCouple take on revamped Maxol site
The Maxol service station on the Glendermott Road in the Waterside area of Londonderry has reopened its doors to customers following an extensive refurbishment. The convenience and forecourt destination has been taken over and reopened by husband and wife Alan and Val Rodden. The station has been refurbished to include ...
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NewsUnsafe tankers banned as new defects found
Seventy fuel tankers that do not meet safety standards are finally going to be banned from British roads and forecourts more than two years after the problem was first reported, transport minister Andrew Jones has admitted. And he also revealed that other tankers that have been certified in the UK ...
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Ad campaign against drinking and driving
The government has launched a new campaign to tackle drink driving, targeting those who do not recognise that even a small number of drinks before driving can be deadly. It urges everyone to Think! before drinking and driving. New adverts highlight how a second drink can double the chance of ...
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AA finds reluctance over electric vehicles
Only one in eleven AA members buying a car in the next three years would consider going electric or hybrid, according to an AA-Populus poll responded to by 27, 662 members. Of those considering changing their car in the next three years (23,067) the choices were: 50% petrol; ...
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Tobacco tax fraudster jailed for 12 months
A Rochdale man, who tried to blame a “man in the pub” for his illegal cigarette hoard in a £57,000 tax fraud, has been jailed for 12 months. Unemployed, Andrew Longbottom, 53, of Wardle, Rochdale, was caught in 2013 by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers, who discovered he had ...
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Asda opening offer below £1 per litre
Asda’s newest petrol station in Highbridge, Somerset, opened on Wednesday, December 2, with petrol priced at 99.7ppl and 103.7ppl for diesel for the first three days of business. The new unmanned eight-pump petrol station, which accepts credit and debit cards only, has been built in place of the small residents’ ...
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EG sets new Subway goal
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It made the announcement as it opened the 100th Subway on a Euro Garages site at Holtspur Service Station in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. The store marks the completion of Euro Garages’ ...
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PRA praises continued police funds
The PRA has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement in his Autumn Spending Review that police budgets would be maintained. With forecourt crime costing an estimated £40m a year, petrol retailers across England and Wales have been threatened by cash-strapped police authorities that they might refuse to investigate ’drive-offs’ and other forecourt ...
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Chartman hopes that can recycling will be UK-wide
Top 50 Indie Chartman Group has introduced aluminium can recycling facilities at its award-winning flagship Winning Post site at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter, in a pilot scheme for the forecourt sector. Chartman director Clive Sheppard said it had introduced three recycling bins to encourage more recycling on ...
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Xmas treats as Sewell re-opens South Cave
Sewell on the go is celebrating the re-opening of South Cave service station in East Yorkshire by offering customers the chance to ’have Christmas on us’. Using its Your Rewards card, customers who spend £10 in the store five times between November 16 and December 10, 2015, will be entered ...
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NWF buys supply firm
NWF Group has acquired Staffordshire Fuels, a 32mlpa fuel distribution business operating in Staffordshire and the West Midlands, for an undisclosed sum. Staffordshire Fuels was established in 1996, operates a fleet of seven tankers, and is an approved supplier of Phillips 66 fuel, branded as Jet, based near Stone in ...
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News in brief
E d’s welcomed Motorway service provider Welcome Break has entered into a partnership with retro-American diner chain Ed’s Easy Diner. The first Ed’s Easy Diner site will launch at South Mimms, located on junction 23 of the M25 in Hertfordshire, in early 2016. Pricing service New signs showing the ...
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Essar brand makes debut on HKS site
The first Essar-branded forecourt in the UK has opened at a site owned by Top 50 Indie HKS at Coalville in Leicestershire, and Essar says it has many more planned across the country. Essar Oil (UK) is an arm of the Indian multinational conglomerate Essar Group and owns the Stanlow ...
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Jennifer wins sales assistant awards
Forecourt sales assistant Jennifer Kerr beat off strong competition to take the top honours at this year’s Sales Assistant of the Year Awards, organised by Forecourt Trader’s sister magazine Convenience Store. Jennifer, who works for Spar Saintfield Road in Lisburn, Northern Ireland,was presented with the award at this week’s ceremony, ...
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Autogas revamp provides ’fresh’ appeal
Autogas is celebrating the completion of a major forecourt rebranding programme.The revamp was unveiled earlier this year and comprised a new brand intended to reflect the modern, clean approach to motoring that can be achieved by drivers making the switch to the cheaper fuel.As part of the £1m investment programme, ...
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BOSS achieves major target
BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, has now recovered more than £2m on behalf of its members through the BOSS Payment Watch scheme, which helps retailers reduce losses from people claiming to have No Means of Payment for fuel taken. Kevin Eastwood, executive director at BOSS, said: "Being able to ...