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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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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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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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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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Essar Oil fined £500,000
Essar Oil (UK), which operates Stanlow Oil Refinery in Ellesmere Port, has been fined nearly £500,000 for breaches of environmental regulations. The company was sentenced at Chester Crown Court following a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was fined £497,284 and ordered to pay costs of £40,000 in ...
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Petrol price down 1.6ppl over October
The average price of petrol fell for the fourth consecutive month with a further 1.6ppl being shaved off in October, according to the latest RAC Fuel Watch data. Unleaded finished the month at 107.82ppl, down from 109.45ppl at the start, but diesel, however, only reduced fractionally in October from ...
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Rontec customers raise £250k for the RNIB
The RNIB is celebrating a partnership with Top 50 Indie Rontec that has raised £250,000 for the charity in just six months. The RNIB’s Pennies scheme, which ran across the group’s 160 Shop’ N Drive stores, gave customers the option to ’top-up’ credit or debit cards transactions with a 25p ...
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DCC completes €464m Butagaz purchase
Irish conglomerate DCC plc, the parent company of Certas Energy, has completed the purchase of Butagaz SAS, a liquefied petroleum gas business in France, from Shell for €464m (£338m). When the deal was announced in May DCC said the transaction would be its largest ever acquisition and was a ...
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Asda cuts prices to 5-year low
Asda cut its fuel prices to the lowest level in five years, taking 2ppl off unleaded petrol and 1ppl on diesel from Monday October 26 meaning its national ceiling on prices was 103.7ppl on unleaded and 106.7ppl on diesel. It coincides with the retailer calling on the Government to maintain ...
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NewsFuel price signs introduced on M5
New signs showing the price of fuel on a section of the M5 are to be introduced between Bristol and Exeter. The move is part of a trial by Highways England designed to give drivers more information to help their journeys and to boost competition on fuel prices. Five motorway ...
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AA report praises hyper pricing policy
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. Supermarket petrol sales between April and June this year are down only 0.2% compared to minus 4.8% for non-supermarket retailers. In its latest monthly fuel ...
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ACS welcomes business rates consultation
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed proposals from the Department of Communities and Local Government which aim to make the appeals system for business rates more efficient. The consultation was launched this week by High Streets Minister Marcus Jones, who claims that the plans will ensure businesses ...
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Appleby Westward winning over forecourts
Appleby Westward, the regional distribution company for Spar stores in the South West, is reporting increasing interest from forecourt retailers impressed by the experience of Top 50 Indie companies the Chartman Group and Euro Garages. The news came as the company announced its highest new store recruitment figures in ...
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Mad Max claims dismissed by Applegreen
Media claims that a masked biker gang rampaged over Applegreen’s forecourt site in Streatham, south London, in scenes likened to a Mad Max film, have been dismissed by Applegreen’s UK boss Michael O’Loughlin. Although some fuel and drinks and snacks were stolen he described it as “a storm in ...
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Asda puts brakes on expansion
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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Topaz expansionTopaz is set to add 95 sites to its network after the Irish authorities approved its takeover of Esso Ireland’s fuels and convenience business in Ireland. The deal, which was agreed in December last year, involves 35 company owned service stations and 60 dealer-owned sites, taking the total network ...
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Patel brothers opt for Esso/Greenergy
Brothers who own two forecourts in West Sussex, have just moved their second site to fuel supply from Greenergy with Esso branding, after the success of a similar move for their first site.Last January the Patel brothers moved fuel supply for their site in Hangleton, Hove, after 10 years with ...
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Davis heads to MFG
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator, Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has appointed Simon Davis as its new fuel operations director. Davis, who was most recently head of sales and logistics for Harvest Energy, will be responsible for the on-going business relationships with MFG’s fuel suppliers, all fuel operations and for the ...
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Tobacco duty fraudster sentenced
A man who used his furniture companies as a front to allow nearly 850,000 cigarettes to be smuggled into the UK and launder around £71,000 of taxpayer’s cash has been sentenced after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). He has also been disqualified from being a company director ...
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Refiners publish fuel economy guidance
The European refining industry (FuelsEurope) has launched a “Save more than fuel” campaign. The campaign offers 10 easy tips to consumers to drive more efficiently, to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The EU-wide campaign can be found on a dedicated website (www.savemorethanfuel.eu) and has been has been translated into 22 ...