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Retailers to lobby Parliament over Sunday trading
Retailers are being encouraged to attend a mass lobby of Parliament on Monday 29 February to encourage their MPs to vote against changes to Sunday trading legislation. The mass lobby, being organised by campaign group Keep Sunday Special, will call on MPs from pivotal constituencies in the Sunday trading debate ...
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Don’t scrap retail rate relief, urges ACS
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the government to outline its plan for meaningful business rates reform and reinstate the Retail Rate Relief scheme as business rates income reaches record levels. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG ) released figures claiming that business rates income ...
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NewsRobbers strike at award-winning site
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 ...
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UK company unveils hydrogen powered car
A UK company has unveiled a hydrogen powered two-seater car with a range of up to 300 miles on 1.5kg of fuel. Trials of 20 vehicles with prospective customers are proposed for later this year, and the car, called a Rasa, is expected on the market from 2018 through a ...
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Planning decision on KDRB deferred
A decision on a planning application for a knock-down rebuild (KDRB) of a service station in North Lincolnshire has been deferred due to objections by the Environment Agency. The Neal Group submitted plans to redevelop the Southbank Service Station on Ferriby Road, Barton-upon-Humber. It applied for permission for “demolition of ...
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Gulf operator doubles estate
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 ...
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RAC warns motorists over insurance
The RAC has warned that many motorists could be invalidating their insurance because they have failed to inform their insurer about penalty points on their licence. Research by RAC Insurance found that nearly a fifth of motorists (18%) would not inform their insurer if they picked up penalty points while ...
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NewsLincolnshire site wins best Shell garage prize
One of the longest established independently owned Shell garages picked up two awards at the Shell Conference. The Laurels Service Station, in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, has been a Shell station for more than 50 years, and the site was recently modernised and had extra facilities added. At the Shell Conference held ...
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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 ...