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NewsPRA slams RAC price claims
The wholesale price of petrol has risen by over 1.3ppl since the start of this week, making the RAC’s claims that prices of £1 per litre will be commonplace by Christmas increasingly unlikely. This was the message from the PRA, which said the supermarkets cutting their prices to 99.9ppl for ...
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Floods close filling stations
A number of filling stations have been forced to close by the flooding that has occurred in Cumbria and Lancashire. There were reports that Shell Hardwick Circus, Sainsbury’s and Tesco in Carlisle had all been flooded, while a site owned by Top 50 Indie Hills Group and AUK’s Prizet Services ...
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Esso switch sparks volume growth
A County Durham dealer says moving his site to supply from Greenergy with Esso branding has helped to increase sales volumes by 22%. In January 2015, Ian Atkinson’s Ouston Service Station moved fuel supply from Jet after being with the group for more than 15 years. He said ...
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Private equity group buys 40% stake in Moto
Private equity group CVC Capital Partners has bought a 40% stake in the motorway services provider Moto from Universities Superannuation (USS). Moto has 45 locations throughout the country with more over 6,000 staff. Tim Moss, CEO of Moto, said: “I am very pleased that such an experienced investor ...
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ACS opposes Welsh tobacco measures
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) reiterated its opposition to proposals in the Public Health Bill to introduce a tobacco register for retailers ahead of a debate on the Bill in the National Assembly for Wales on December 8. ACS chief executive James Lowman said: “Compliance with tobacco regulations in ...
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Four arrested in tobacco fraud swoop
Three men and a woman have been arrested by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in connection with an investigation into a suspected £500,000 tobacco smuggling fraud. HMRC, accompanied by officers from Norfolk Police, Immigration Enforcement and trading standards, searched three business addresses, two private addresses and a storage unit in ...
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NewsAston Martin highlights new Gulf branding
Kiln Park Service Station on Marsh Road, Tenby, in South Wales, celebrated the launch of its new Gulf branding on Thursday December 3 with a visit from an Aston Martin racing car. The vehicle, which is branded Gulf, has 480 bhp engine producing 500 Nm torque. Customers and local residents ...
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Jet wins Co-op supply deal
Jet has been chosen as the fuel supplier for a new Co-operative forecourt and food store that opened on 3 December in Earlston in the Scottish Borders. The 3,700sq ft convenience store and 16 nozzle Jet filling station replaces the Co-operative food’s former outlet in the town. The site, which ...
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Price cuts expected as cost of oil falls
Cuts of 3ppl in average petrol prices by Christmas, with diesel down 5ppl are being predicted by the RAC following significant falls in the price of oil, and the big four supermarket groups all knocking 2ppl off their prices. The motorists’ organisation said this meant prices of £1 per litre ...
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Hydrogen station development deal
The hydrogen fuel company ITM Power has signed a deal for siting and business development of both hydrogen refuelling stations and hydrogen energy systems with Ove Arup & Partners. Arup is a leading firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists working across the built environment. The collaboration will ...
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NewsRocket and feather pricing a ’myth’, fuel industry tells Fair Fuel inquiry
Representatives of key elements of the road fuels industry came out in force in London yesterday to give evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Fuel for motorists and hauliers, and were unanimous in refuting claims of ‘rocket and feather’ pricing. The meeting was led by James McCartney, Conservative ...
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Fuel fraudsters told to pay back £6.9m
Three men jailed for 13 years for their part in a multi-million pound fuel and VAT fraud have been ordered to pay back almost £6.9m or face more time behind bars. Michael Wilmot, 73, led the Lincolnshire gang that was jailed in July 2014 after an investigation by HM Revenue ...
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Worker in hospital after suspected robbery
A member of staff injured in a suspected robbery at Blurton Filling Station, Stoke-on-Trent, had to be treated in hospital. Staffordshire Police said a 29-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery following an incident at the BP branded site. Police were called to the location just after 4.10am ...
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NewsCanadian giant buys Topaz
Topaz Energy Group, Ireland’s largest convenience and fuel retailer, is being taken over by the Canadian convenience and fuel retailing giant Alimentation Couche-Tard, in a deal believed to worth about €450m (£324m). The two companies have signed an agreement that will lead to the acquisition by the Canadian company of ...
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New car sales return to growth
Registrations of new cars in the UK returned to growth in November, following the first decline in 44 months in October, according to figures released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). A total of 178,876 cars were registered in the month, an increase of 3.8% over November ...
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UK reaffirms drive for zero emission cars
The Government has reaffirmed the UK’s commitment for almost all cars and vans to be zero emission by 2050 at the international climate conference in Paris this week. The UK was one of 13 international members of the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Alliance to sign a commitment to promote cleaner ...
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Diesel at lowest level for six years
November was a landmark month for the UK fuel market, according to the RAC, with both the lowest average pump price for diesel in six years and the first widespread sight of petrol being sold for less than £1 a litre since Summer 2009. RAC Fuel Watch data for November ...
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Gulf recruits seven new members
Gulf has attracted seven more independently owned forecourts to join its network with a combined annual volume of more than 20 million litres. The Gulf brand is supplied by Certas Energy, which says it is attracting an increasing number of dealers to its network in Britain, and they now total ...
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Asda opening offer below £1 per litre
Asda’s newest petrol station in Highbridge, Somerset, opened on Wednesday, December 2, with petrol priced at 99.7ppl and 103.7ppl for diesel for the first three days of business. The new unmanned eight-pump petrol station, which accepts credit and debit cards only, has been built in place of the small residents’ ...
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Tobacco tax fraudster jailed for 12 months
A Rochdale man, who tried to blame a “man in the pub” for his illegal cigarette hoard in a £57,000 tax fraud, has been jailed for 12 months. Unemployed, Andrew Longbottom, 53, of Wardle, Rochdale, was caught in 2013 by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers, who discovered he had ...