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ACS slams bid to justify Sunday trading change
Government attempts to justify relaxing Sunday trading regulations have been ridiculed by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), and it has called on MPs to reject the proposed change. The Department for Business (BIS) published its response to the consultation on liberalising Sunday Trading, but the ACS said it had ...
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Woman dies after forecourt collision
A woman has died and a man is seriously ill in hospital after a minor collision at a service station on the A27 near Lewes in East Sussex on Sunday February 7. Police said minor damage was caused to a blue Toyota Aygo and a silver Renault Kangoo with French ...
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Armed robber wields baseball bat
Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a petrol station in Taunton. The incident happened on Saturday February 6 at the Texaco petrol station on Wellington New Road shortly after 1.10pm. A man entered the petrol station shop and demanded that the woman behind ...
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Bungling ram raiders steal empty ATM
A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a ram raid at the BP garage on the A134 in Sudbury, Suffolk, where a cashpoint machine was stolen. Suffolk Police were alerted around 2.40am on Tuesday 9 February, to reports of a ram raid at the premises on the Chilton Industrial Estate. ...
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NewsFormer Esso retail boss Karen Dickens to join MRH as CEO
MRH (GB) has announced the appointment of Karen Dickens as chief executive officer of the company with effect from the 1st of March 2016. Karen has previously held a number of senior managerial positions within ExxonMobil Corporation, both in the UK and abroad, in a career spanning 29 years; her ...
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HKS recruits former BP retail director
Former BP retail director Graham Sims has been appointed non-executive chairman of HKS Holdings to lead a new accelerated investment, growth and development strategy. HKS, which will be ranked sixth in the new Top 50 Indies published later this month, is owned by the Thakrar family and Graham commented: “I ...
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NewsForecourt canopies battered by Storm Imogen
Forecourts took a battering in the 90mph winds of Storm Imogen with several having to close because of damage to their canopies. In Cheddar Valley, the Simply Fresh/BP site at Weare had to close at 1pm on Tuesday after the wind ripped a panel off the underside of the canopy. ...
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Car sales highest in January for 11 years
New car registrations in January in the UK climbed 2.9% compared with the same month in 2015, and were the highest in January for 11 years at 169,678 units. Private and business buyers drove this growth with demand for new cars up by 8.2% to 73,061 and 5.0% to 6,716 ...
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Eight arrested over £3m fuel fraud
Men from Merseyside and Manchester have been arrested and 55,000 litres of fuel seized, as part of an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) into a suspected fuel smuggling fraud worth an estimated £3m in evaded tax. HMRC officers searched one business and four domestic addresses in Knowsley, Liverpool, ...
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Licence appeal wins costs
A forecourt retailer has won an extension to his alcohol licence and, unusually, a substantial contribution to his costs from the council, after he appealed against its refusal. Solicitors Winckworth Sherwood represented Mohan Samy, owner of Tudor Lodge Service Station, Middlesbrough, in an appeal against a decision by Middlesbrough ...
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Gunman robs Bracknell forecourt
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following the robbery of a petrol station in Bracknell. Shortly after 1.30am on February 3 a man entered the Esso garage, in Downshire Way, Priestwood. He removed what was appeared to be a firearm from his pocket, before demanding cash from a member ...
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Positive vibes at Shell’s dealer conference as investment strengthens brand
Retailers are signing up to Shell in the UK because of the growing strength of the brand, which follows the company’s aspiration to be the number one global fuel retailer, according to David Moss, Shell UK’s general manager, retail. Addressing a large audience of dealers at the company’s annual conference ...
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Tanker driver not guilty over Tesco contamination
A man has been found not guilty of contaminating fuel which caused dozens of breakdowns for customers of a Tesco service station in 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 Essex at ...
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NewsSupermarkets’ share of fuel market falls
Growth in the supermarkets’ 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% ...
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£20m funding for driverless car research
Eight new projects developing driverless car technology have been awarded £20m in government funding. The projects are the first to be funded from the government’s £100m Intelligent Mobility Fund. They range from developing autonomous shuttles to carry visually-impaired passengers using advanced sensors and control systems, to new simulation trials for ...
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Welcome Break adopts National Living Wage
Motorway service operator Welcome Break has announced it will pay the National Living Wage to all its employees across the UK from April 1. The National Living Wage will be the minimum starting rate for all of the company’s 5,000-plus employees across its 27 sites, irrespective of age. Currently 2,095 ...
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Certas Energy company owned sites join BOSS
Certas Energy has joined the forecourt security association BOSS (British Oil Security Syndicate), by installing the BOSS Payment Watch debt recovery system across its portfolio of 24 company-owned sites in Scotland. The introduction of the BOSS Payment Watch debt recovery service across its sites is expected to result in thousands ...
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NewsFuel price plunge bottoming out
Plummeting fuel prices may have bottomed out, according to the RAC, because oil prices have staged a recovery. Since oil reached a 12-year low of $26 a barrel on Wednesday 20 January the price has rebounded, finishing the month at $33.12, only $3 below where it started the month at ...
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Government presses on with Sunday Trading change
The government has confirmed that it intends to press ahead with devolution of Sunday trading, despite widespread opposition from MPs on both sides of the House. During the second reading debate of the Enterprise Bill, business minister Sajid Javid announced that plans to deregulate Sunday Trading hours will be added ...
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Topaz Energy takeover completed
The 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 December. Niall Anderton, formerly chief financial officer (CFO) of Topaz, ...