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Fourth Essar-branded forecourt opens
Essar Oil (UK) has confirmed the opening of its fourth retail site, at Sale in Cheshire, since it entered the UK fuel supply sector. The station, which has been operated by the Akhtar family for the past five years, is located in a residential locality and Essar said it has ...
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Sewell on the go opens first Subway
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has opened its first Subway franchise, at South Cave service station in Yorkshire, adding to the convenience offer at the site. The site, which reopened in November after a £1.5m extension, is a 24-hour one stop shop for all grocery and fuel needs. ...
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Car sales highest in February for 12 years
New car registrations continued the positive start to 2016 in February, growing 8.4% compared with the same month in 2015, according to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The total of 83,395 new cars registered in the month was the biggest in February since ...
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Government admits last Sunday trading research was in 2006
Business minister Anna Soubry has admitted to parliament that the Government has failed to commission any research over the past 10 years to look into the impact of Sunday trading deregulation. In an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Kevin Brennan MP, she said: “In 2006 Indepen were commissioned ...
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Phillips 66 introduces new tankers to fleet
Phillips 66 has replaced 70% of its total road tanker fleet with 32 new MAN, Scania and Merc vehicles. The vehicles conform to Euro 6 emissions standards thus delivering lower emissions and improved fuel efficiency, among a number of other benefits.Mary Wolf, managing director of Phillips 66 UK & Ireland ...
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MacDonald warns against fuel duty hike
The March Budget could signal the end of lower pump prices if Chancellor George Osborne decides to raise petrol and diesel taxes after failing to keep a lid on government borrowing. That’s the prediction of Ramsay MacDonald, retail director of Certas Energy, who urges him to look elsewhere to balance ...
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Sale of Topaz goes ahead
he takeover of Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, Topaz Energy Group, by the Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard has been completed.The companies announced the completion after the EU Commission ratified the deal, which was agreed in early DecemberTopaz owns 158 service stations across the island of Ireland, supplies ...
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Asda won’t trade below cost on fuel
Asda’s petrol pricing policy of not trading below cost, is revealed in a planning application for a new petrol filling station at its store in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Acting on behalf of Asda, Deloitte is seeking permission from Wyre Council for a fully automated filling station with three pumps and six ...
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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 ...