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Site reopens after £1.1m refurbishment
Jos Richardson & Son has celebrated a £1.1m refurbishment with an open day at the re-opening of its BP forecourt, Spar convenience store and Subway at York Road Garage, Escrick, between Selby and York in North Yorkshire. The official cutting of the ribbon was performed by Charles Forbes Adam, owner ...
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Raiders strike at West Yorkshire forecourt
Police are appealing for information after a robbery at a petrol station convenience store in Liversedge, Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. Shortly before midnight on Friday, 6 November, two people with their faces covered entered the Millbridge Service Station store in Bradford Road armed with crowbars. The suspects took ...
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Imperial Tobacco fights illicit trade
Imperial Tobacco has announced the latest instalment in its Suspect it? Report it! anti-illicit trade campaign. The new poster shows ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of a convicted retailer’s retail display unit – the ‘after’ being a bare wall where the unit used to be. The images are taken from the ...
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UK working with Germans on emissions
Transport minister Patrick McLoughlin has informed the House of Commons about a range of initiatives under way following the scandal over Volkswagen engines being fitted with defeat devices to fool emissions tests. He said the UK testing body, the Vehicle Certification Agency, has secured assurance from all automotive manufacturers outside ...
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NewsHKS buys Brobot and doubles in size
Top 50 Indie HKS has more than doubled in size to just under 60 sites, after taking over fellow Top 50 Indie Brobot, following the addition of seven sites bought from Shell three months ago. In the most recent Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, published in March, Leicester-based HKS was ...
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Robbers threaten staff with metal bar
Men wearing balaclavas have robbed a petrol station in Cheetham Hill, Greater Manchester. At 8pm on Monday 2 November, two men walked into Shirley Road petrol station. One of them stood in the door way and the other jumped over the counter demanding staff gave him money. He ...
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NewsCheerful forecourt sales assistant Jennifer takes top honours at prestigious awards
Forecourt sales assistant Jennifer Kerr beat off strong opposition 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 - which was acquired by the Henderson Group ...
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Prolific thief banned from all sites in England and Wales
A prolific thief has been banned from every petrol station in England and Wales after stealing thousands of pounds of fuel, but has been spared jail. Paul Fagg, from Maidstone, stole £3,690 of fuel in a scam where he pretended he had forgotten his wallet after filling up. Canterbury Crown ...
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Euro Garages aiming for 175 Subway stores
Euro Garages has set a new target of having 175 Subway stores across its estate by the end of 2016. It announced the new target 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 ...
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William Reed sets up e-learning partnership
William Reed Business Media, publisher of Forecourt Trader and market leading business information for the food industry, and Virtual College, the leading provider of e-learning and online training, have launched a partnership to provide an extensive range of training materials for the food industry. William Reed’s journalism, information, research, events ...
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Prolific cigarette smuggler jailed
A lorry driver who smuggled more than 147 million cigarettes, worth an estimated £32m in lost duty, into the UK hidden behind crates of rotting pears, has been jailed for almost seven years. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers foiled Hans Verhoeven’s plan in July 2014 when they stopped him ...
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Break-in at Galashiels Esso site
Scottish Borders police officers are appealing for witnesses following a break-in to a petrol station in Galashiels in the early hours of Thursday, November 5. The incident happened around 3.45am when four people in black clothing broke into the Esso station in Melrose Road and stole a large quantity of ...
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ATM ripped from wall of forecourt shop
Thieves used a digger to rip an ATM machine from the wall of a forecourt shop near Newry in Northern Ireland early on Friday November 6. The cash machine was stolen from the Emo-branded filling station on the Camlough Road, causing severe damage to the building. Detective constable Sarah Lyttle ...
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Fire fighters hose down potential arsonist
A potential arsonist on a forecourt was hosed down by fire fighters to enable police to arrest him. The incident occurred after a petrol station in Northampton was evacuated on Wednesday evening (November 4) due to a man standing by a fuel pump and threatening to harm himself. Police were ...
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ACS urges chancellor to revamp rates
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called on the chancellor to take action on business rates, employment costs and drop proposals to devolve Sunday trading rules, in its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement on November 25. Since the chancellor’s announcements of the introduction of a ...
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NewsNWF acquires Staffordshire Fuels
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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First drop in car sales for 43 months
New car registrations in the UK dropped for the first time in more than three and a half years, in October, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 177,664 new cars were registered in the month, representing a decrease of 1.1% on last year’s ...
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Morrisons in MFG site pilot
Top 50 Indie Motor Fuel Group (MFG) is to partner Morrisons with a pilot a convenience food offer in five of its forecourts. The pilot will start by the end of the year and will involve Morrisons supplying branded and own-brand food to the forecourt stores. The shops, all above ...
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Shell’s German hydrogen sites
Shell will install a nationwide network of hydrogen fuelling pumps at retail sites in Germany from 2016. The company, which opened its first hydrogen fuel station in Germany in 2011, has signed a declaration of intent with joint venture partners and Germany’s federal transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt. It will lead ...
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Mishap on Welsh forecourt goes viral on YouTube
CCTV of a customer who managed to tip her car onto two wheels while exiting a petrol station is approaching a million views on YouTube after going viral on the Internet.The incident took place at Forecourt Trader award-winning site Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, last month, and was ...