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Autogas showcases benefits of LPG
LPG fuel supplier Autogas will be showcasing three LPG vehicles at the Cenex low carbon vehicle event, taking place at Millbrook, Bedford, on 9th and 10th September, highlighting the huge variety of businesses and fleets that could benefit from switching to autogas LPG. An autogas-converted Ford Focus will showcase the ...
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NewsPolice appeal over prolific fuel thief
Officers from Staffordshire Police’s Tamworth Local Policing Team (LPT) have issued CCTV images of a man they want to speak to in connection with multiple thefts from a Tamworth petrol station. Between April and August there have been 11 incidents where a man has pulled onto the forecourt of ...
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New poster in anti illicit tobacco campaign
Imperial Tobacco has launched the latest instalment in its Suspect it? Report it! anti-illicit trade campaign. The new poster depicts a ‘dodgy deal’ at a local car boot sale, a popular location for illegal tobacco transactions. One in three adult smokers purchase illegal tobacco from pubs, market stalls and car ...
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NewsACS steps up fight on Living Wage
ACS is calling on retailers to respond its National Living Wage survey 2016 to inform the convenience sector’s response to the Low Pay Commission’s call for evidence on minimum wage and the new living rates. The chancellor, George Osborne, announced that from April next year, a new living wage of ...
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Tanker fire closes M25
Firefighters took two hours to bring a petrol tanker fire under control on the M25 on Saturday August 8. Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called along with Surrey Fire and Rescue to a petrol tanker that was well alight on the Clacket Lane services slip road just before 3.30 ...
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Minister opens chain of rapid chargepoints
Transport minister Andrew Jones visited the Eden Project in Cornwall on 6 August to open the first rapid plug-in car chargepoint at the site, part of 16 being installed across Devon and Cornwall in summer 2015. The public will be able to use the new infrastructure to charge their plug-in ...
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Cars sales continue record run
New car registrations continued their record-breaking run of increases, with their 41st consecutive month of growth in July. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reports that 178,420 cars were registered in July – an uplift of 3.2% on the same month last year – while registrations in 2015 ...
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UK leads Europe as alternative fuel vehicle sales soar
Demand for alternative fuel vehicles is soaring across Europe, with the UK leading the way with the biggest year-on year increase in the EU’s major markets. Alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) registrations rose by 17.4% across Europe in the second quarter of 2015, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), ...
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ACS claims case for Sunday Trading is flawed
Figures released by Government as part of a consultation on changes to Sunday Trading regulations have been dismissed as out of date and misleading, by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). In the consultation, Government uses the following statistics to justify its decision: Benefits equivalent to £1.4bn a year: ...
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NewsAsda cuts diesel to 108.7ppl
Asda has announced a new round of price cuts on fuel with 2ppl off diesel and up to 1ppl off unleaded petrol from Saturday August 8, and this was swiftly matched by Sainsbury’s. Asda’s new national price cap on diesel will be 108.7ppl, its lowest price since early 2010. Unleaded ...
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Cashier avoids jail for role in £30,000 scam
A garage cashier has avoided jail for his part in a fuel card cloning scam in which £30,000 of petrol and diesel was stolen from forecourts across Birmingham. Khaled Abdulkawi cloned at least 46 cards at the Esso Falcon Service Station, Halesowen, and passed them to accomplices who topped up ...
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NewsCashier avoids jail for role in £30,000 scam
A garage cashier has narrowly avoided jail for his part in a fuel card cloning scam in which £30,000 of petrol and diesel was stolen from forecourts across Birmingham. Khaled Abdulkawi cloned at least 46 cards at the Esso Falcon Service Station, Halesowen, and passed them to accomplices who topped ...
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Smartphone pay systems rolled out
Two new ways for customers to pay using their smartphones have been rolled out on UK forecourts. A customer at BP Boreham Connect in Chelmsford, was one of the first consumers to use Apple Pay in the UK when they bought £15-worth of diesel a short while after the system ...
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Royal opening for services
The Prince of Wales officially opened Gloucester Services on the M5 last week, marking the completion of a £40m project. Gloucester Services southbound between junctions 11a and 12 on the M5 opened for business on Tuesday 19th May 2015, a year after the northbound services opened. Gloucester Services is part ...
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Sainsbury’s is rated favourite fuel retailer
Sainsbury’s has become the UK’s preferred petrol retailer with 52% of those surveyed choosing it for its exceptional service and experience, according to an independent study by consumer intelligence firm, Market Force Information. A survey of 5,900 consumers in June 2015 asked participants to evaluate petrol-retailers on the experience delivered, ...
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Euro Garages secures new finance deal
Euro Garages has agreed a new finance package with a syndicate of banks to support its deals to acquire 172 sites from Esso and Shell, which were announced in March and April Mohsin Issa, managing director of Euro Garages, said: "Our new financial arrangement marks a milestone moment for Euro ...
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Phase two plans for Cornwall Services
Cornwall Services has marked its first birthday by confirming phase two of the service station development, with construction planned to commence early next year.This will include a 70-bed hotel with restaurant, tourist information centre, dedicated dog walking area and an outdoor picnic/play area.The service station, which includes an MRH forecourt, ...
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Chance to vote for your champion
It’s time to start voting for this year’s Retailer Champion, the special award supported by the principal sponsor of the Forecourt Trader Awards, Certas Energy. From a list of six nominations, you can vote for the person you think is blazing a trail in the forecourt retailing industry. Go to ...
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Campaign to keep Sunday trading regs
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) and the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) have called on members to write to their MPs explaining the negative impact that proposed changes to Sunday Trading regulations would have on their business and asking them to raise the issue with the Prime Minister." ...
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in brief
Spar forecourt growth A Rontec forecourt store in Slough has become the 100th new Spar store supplied by Blakemore Trade Partners since the start of its 2014/15 financial year. Blakemore Trade Partners has also begun to fulfil its Spar contract with Euro Garages, so far servicing eight sites, but by ...