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Welcome Break CEO plans 24-hour endurance challenge for Children in Need
Welcome Break CEO Rod McKie, is planning to undertake a 24 hour endurance challenge to raise money for BBC Children in Need. He will travel across the country, visiting all 27 Welcome Break service stations and completing a series of individual tasks along the way.Welcome Break is an official partner ...
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NewsMorrisons to pilot shops on MFG sites
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 1,200 sq.ft, ...
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Cash box stolen from security man on forecourt
Merseyside Police are appealing for information after a robber made off with a cash box taken from a security guard during a raid at a Liverpool petrol station. Police were called to the Shell garage in Smithdown Road, Wavertree, at around 11.40am on Friday October 23. A member of staff ...
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Attempted theft of ATM fails
Officers from Police Scotland in Aberdeenshire have appealed for witnesses following the attempted theft of an ATM at the Aboyne Filling Station, Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The ATM was targeted at around 1:45am on Sunday 25 October 2015. The attempt was unsuccessful and the thieves fled the scene without any cash. Detective ...
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NewsAsda cuts fuel prices to five-year low
Asda has cut its fuel prices to the lowest level in five years, taking 2ppl off unleaded petrol and 1ppl on diesel from today (Monday 26th October) – meaning its national ceiling on prices is 103.7ppl on unleaded and 106.7ppl on diesel.Coinciding with the cut the retailer has called on ...
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Tobacco smuggler jailed after extradition
A former County Durham milkman, who masterminded a plot to smuggle ten million illicit cigarettes into the UK, has been jailed after being extradited from Thailand by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to face justice.Paul Joyce, 41, originally from Consett, fled to the Far East in 2008, only hours before ...
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NewsSupermarkets gaining market share says AA
The AA has praised the supermarkets for keeping fuel prices low and says their policy has helped them win market share from other fuel retailers. In its latest monthly fuel price update it says average unleaded petrol prices fell for the fourth month in a row, dropping from 111.16ppl in ...
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Minister predicts low emission era
Transport minister Andrew Jones has told fleet managers he wants the next five years to be remembered as the dawn of the ultra low emission vehicle (ULEV) era. He told the Go Ultra Low Fleet Managers Summit that the UK was the fastest growing market for electric vehicles in ...
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NewsForecourt CCTV clip is YouTube hit
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. The incident took place at Forecourt Trader award winning Brian Llewelyn a’l ferched, in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, earlier this week, and was ...
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RAC calls for greater price cuts
The RAC has criticised retailers for not making bigger cuts in prices after the three supermarkets groups cut 1ppl from their fuel prices earlier in the week. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said: “While this is more good news for motorists, we would like retailers to make bigger cuts ...
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Top 50 Indie slams minimum wage list
A Top 50 Indie, which was included in a list “naming and shaming” companies for not paying the national minimum wage, has slammed the exercise as a publicity stunt that did not tell the full story. The Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) issued the list which featured ...
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£2.7bn lost to illicit alcohol and tobacco
HMRC estimates that £2.7bn was lost in excise duty due to illicit tobacco and alcohol in the 2013-14 tax year. The latest HMRC Tax Gaps report also said there had been a £0.1bn reduction in duty lost through illicit alcohol, but a £0.1bn increase in the level of duty ...
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New food safety qualifications launched
New regulated food safety qualifications that enable workers, supervisors and managers in the catering, sectors to learn how they can ensure food safety standards have been launched by the British Safety Council. The Level 2 Awards in Food Safety in Catering, Retail and Manufacturing enable staff in workplaces such as ...
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NewsNew investor offers European growth for Euro Garages
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages looks set to become a leading player in Europe after a private equity firm agreed to invest in the company. TDR Capital, which already owns European Forecourt Retail Group (EFR-Group), has agreed to take a minority stake in Euro Garages which values the overall business ...
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HMRC crackdown in East Midlands
A two-day operation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco and alcohol in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, has uncovered more than 34,000 cigarettes and 10,000 litres of alcohol, all believed to be illicit. HMRC officers, supported by Derbyshire Police, Nottinghamshire Police and Derby ...
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Back to The Future was wrong on fuels
Today’s date, 21 October 2015, is the future date the De Lorean time machine travelled to in the second film in the Back to the Future trilogy. In honour of this landmark Forecourt Trader looks back at how accurate – or not – the 1989 movie was in predicting the ...
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Asda slows rollout of standalone forecourts
Asda has announced a slowdown of its plans to open standalone forecourts as it re-prioritises the business to cope with the challenges facing the big supermarket groups. The group had previously set a target of opening 100 standalone forecourts by 2018 and in March this year it bought 15 sites ...
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ACS keeps up fight on bag tax
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is continuing to urge the government to include smaller retailers in England’s single-use carrier bag charge after a government report shows Scotland’s universal charge has cut usage by 650 million bags in its first year. The figures, released by the Scottish government, show that ...
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Phillips 66 presents disabled driving award
Phillips 66 presented the award for Young Achiever at the Disabled Motoring UK Awards last month at the Silverstone Wing, organised by the charity Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK). The winner of the award was 16 year old Alex Tait from Sheffield. Alex is a young driver with Myotonic Dystrophy, who ...
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Supermarkets trim 1ppl off fuel prices
Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have all announced 1ppl price cuts in unleaded petrol and diesel. Morrisons announced that it had made the cut on October 20 and Tesco, which now bills itself as “Britain’s biggest fuel retailer”, made the cut from 6pm the same day. Sainsbury’s followed with the ...