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Armed robber jailed for 8 years
A man has been jailed for eight years for holding up a filling station in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. Mark Adair donned a balaclava and threatened a cashier with an imitation pistol at Menstrie Filling Station on 28 December, 2014. He fled with £100, but was caught by police after his ...
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1.2 million UK cars affected in VW scandal
Volkswagen has announced that nearly 1.2 million of its vehicles sold in the UK are fitted with the software behind the emissions scandal. It includes diesel-powered cars with the VW brand, Audi, Seat and Skoda as well as VW commercial vehicles. In the next few days the company ...
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Sainsbury’s launches month-long fuel deal
Sainsbury’s is launching a month-long promotion on fuel which it claims is equivalent to a discount of 5ppl. From Thursday October 1 until Saturday October 31, customers can collect 10 Nectar points for every litre of fuel purchased. This compares with the usual rate of one Nectar point per litre. ...
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NewsCertas opens redeveloped Harefield OIl Terminal
Advance Fuels, part of Certas Energy, has celebrated the formal opening its redeveloped Harefield Oil Terminal, at Uxbridge, west London. The £1m project is one of the largest developments commissioned by Certas Energy. The terminal is now the second largest fuelling facility to the west of Greater London, with ...
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UNITI expo expands capacity of venue
Extra space has been added to the capacity of next year’s UNITI expo after the space allocated for equipment exhibitors sold out. The organisers of the event, which will take place from 14 to 16 of June 2016 in Stuttgart, have added an additional hall for exhibitors from the areas ...
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RAC calls for tighter emissions tests
The RAC has called for tighter testing of emissions from car engines and on fuel economy claims following the scandal over Volkswagen’s attempt to cheat in US tests. RAC chief engineer David Bizley said: “In light of the emissions tests revelations, car buyers need to be given absolute confidence in ...
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Ram-raiders reduce garage building to rubble
Ram-raiders using a JCB digger and a forklift truck have reduced a Cambridgeshire petrol station building to rubble in a bid to steal a cash machine. The would-be thieves - four men dressed in black - struck at the service station in East Delph, Whittlesey at 02:55 on Tuesday September ...
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Thieves blow cash machine to pieces
Greater Manchester Police are investigating after thieves blew apart a cash machine on a service station forecourt, in one of two attacks on ATMs on the same night. At 3.25am on Friday 25 September, police were called following reports of a loud bang outside the Texaco-branded Partington Service Station on ...
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Two sites lose rural rebate after HMRC blunder
A filling station owner in the Yorkshire Dales is furious after his site is one of two that have had the rural fuel tax rebate scheme withdrawn. Blundering tax officials claim it was granted in error. HM Revenue & Customs has written to Aysgarth Garage and Woodhall Service Station telling ...
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Regus opens first site on M56
Regus, the workspace provider, has opened the doors to its first Regus Express location on the M56 motorway, at Chester motorway service area. The workplace is designed to cater for the needs of mobile workers, local home-based professionals and business travellers. It features a drop-in business lounge with free, secure ...
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Chartman in touch with World Cup
Top 50 Indie Chartman Group made the most of the opportunity presented by Rugby World Cup matches being played around the country.The group’s flagship Winning Post Store, at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter, was comprehensively decked out in Heineken colours to promote the drinks company’s Rugby World Cup ...
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Offer LPG cars in UK says UKLPG
Car manufacturers are being encouraged to reintroduce LPG-powered models to their UK ranges as concerns about vehicle emissions and air quality problems have grown following the scandal of Volkswagen’s fixing of emission tests. In Europe more than 17 vehicle manufacturers offer LPG-powered models, but none offers LPG variants in their ...
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in brief
Motorists are increasingly buying their fuel little and often, rather like the trend away from big shops at supermarkets in favour of top-up shopping, according to the latest report by him! research and consulting. In its Symbol Forecourt Focus, it reports increasing numbers of motorists are saying they are leaving ...
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Hyper cuts put petrol below diesel
Two months after supermarkets cut diesel prices below unleaded petrol Asda has been the first to restore petrol’s position as the cheaper fuel. On Wednesday 23rd September Asda cut the price of unleaded by 2ppl, making its national price cap105.7ppl on unleaded while diesel remained at 107.7ppl. Andy Peake, Asda’s ...
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Tax experts back vapour case
Tax experts have strongly supported the case for fuel retailers to receive refunds for fuel removed by oil companies vapour recovery equipment during deliveries. The case is argued by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), the leading professional body in the UK concerned solely with taxation, in its response to ...
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Bungling ATM thieves
An explosion at a Devon forecourt is believed to have been caused by bungling thieves who were trying to break into a cash machine.Police were called to the Texaco garage on Moorland Villas, Yelverton, at just before 4am on Monday 7 September.It is believed that three suspects were using gas ...
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Somerset forecourt sold by Christie & Co
Cheddar Motors in the Somerset village of Cheddar has been sold in a deal brokered by specialist filling station property adviser Christie & Co.The freehold interest in the forecourt and convenience store has been sold for an undisclosed sum.The buyer is described as an experienced Sri Lankan forecourt operator from ...
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Greenergy quells fears about diesel
Greenergy has reassured the industry about the security of diesel supplies after the RAC warned there is a possibility that pumps in the UK could run out of diesel because of the growing reliance on imports. The RAC pointed to the UK’s increasing need to import diesel as diesel demand ...
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£25m awarded to develop greener fuel technology
Three companies have been awarded a share of a £25m fund to help develop greener fuel technology, Transport Minister Andrew Jones has announced. The projects will use waste products which would otherwise be disposed of and turn them into biofuels.Jones said: "This is a great example of our commitment to ...
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Applegreen pushes sales up 16%
Applegreen has revealed sales up 16% to 517m in its first set of results since its flotation in June. For the six months ended June 30 it also pushed up EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) up 42% to 10.7m. During the period it added 23 sites across ...