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Falling fuel prices hit Moto turnover
Moto, the UK’s largest motorway services company, has blamed last year’s fall in petrol prices for a £37m drop in turnover. The company saw sales fall from £840m to £803m in the year to December 24, 2014. Sales not including fuel increased by 7.8%, while pre-tax losses fell ...
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Penny Petroleum planning further expansion
Northumberland-based Penny Petroleum is aiming to add 10 sites to its estate by the end of 2016, taking it to a total of 40, having already added 10 in the past year. David Penny, owner of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indie, revealed his plans to expand the company’s footprint ...
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Cigarette smuggler sentenced
A furniture importer from Brighton who allowed hollow statues of the religious icon Buddha to be used to smuggle more than 100,000 illicit cigarettes into the UK has been sentenced after pleading guilty. James Reber, 51, was questioned by officers from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in June 2013, ...
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Charging points barely used says report
The Government and local councils have invested millions of pounds on building thousands of electric car charging points that barely anyone uses, according to the Independent. It said ministers confirmed that public money had been used to construct a network of 57,567 publicly-funded charging points as of the end of ...
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NewsFuel prices causing drivers to cut back
Motorists are cutting back on car use because of fuel price increases, according to the AA. In its monthly Fuel Price Report it says average UK petrol prices have reached a six-month high after climbing above 117ppl for the first time since mid December. The motoring organisation said AA-Populus research ...
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George Hammond wins BP award
A member of Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies has scooped the Excellence in Customer Offer award at the BP UK Oil Awards 2015. Deal service station, part of the George Hammond plc retail group located on London Road in Deal, Kent, was recognised following its Spar store’s latest re-development, which ...
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Tesla announces first motorway charging sites
Electric car manufacturer Tesla will be opening its first Supercharger stations at UK motorway sites. The company has revealed seven Supercharger stations will be added at motorway services with additional UK motorway locations in the works to be announced soon. It said that in one year, Tesla Superchargers throughout the ...
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DCC completes French acquistion
DCC plc, the parent company of Certas Energy, has completed the acquisition of the Esso Express unmanned retail petrol station network and the Esso Motorway concessions in France. The deal was announced on August 28 last year, but required approval from the European Commission, which was granted in March. The ...
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Tobacco smugglers jailed
A Lancashire father and son, who attempted to steal £229,000 in tax by smuggling illegal cigarettes and tobacco into the UK, were jailed this week at Manchester Crown Court.Peter Robinson, 69, and Adam Robinson, 28, both of Rossendale, were sentenced alongside accomplice Christopher Quint, 59, of Heywood, Rochdale, following an ...
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Tobacco smugglers jailed
A Lancashire father and son, who attempted to steal £229,000 in tax by smuggling illegal cigarettes and tobacco into the UK, were jailed this week at Manchester Crown Court. Peter Robinson, 69, and Adam Robinson, 28, both of Rossendale, were sentenced alongside accomplice Christopher Quint, 59, of Heywood, Rochdale, following ...
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Huge fuel laundering plant raided in Gloucestershire
One hundred thousand litres of laundered fuel has been discovered after a raid by officers from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Gloucestershire police. The raid took place on Monday night at industrial premises at Coleford in Gloucestershire, and a 49-year-old man from the Forest of Dean was arrested on ...
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Immigration swoop on Kent car wash
A worker at a Kent car wash has been arrested by Home office officials who suspected he was working in the UK illegally. Officers from the Kent and Sussex Immigration Enforcement team visited the CPV Hand Car Wash, at Battle Road in St Leonards on June 18. A Home Office ...
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Immigration swoop on Kent car wash
A worker at a Kent car wash has been arrested by Home office officials who suspected he was working in the UK illegally. Officers from the Kent and Sussex Immigration Enforcement team visited the CPV Hand Car Wash, at Battle Road in St Leonards on June 18. A Home Office ...
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Pay at pump hydrogen sites to open in autumn
The UK’s first pay at pump hydrogen refuelling facilities are scheduled to open in London in the autumn.In an update for investors, ITM Power, said HyFIVE, an EU funded project (with partners BMW, Daimler, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota), is to deploy three hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) in London.Two sites have ...
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Pay at pump hydrogen sites to open in autumn
The UK’s first pay at pump hydrogen refuelling facilities are scheduled to open in London in the autumn. In an update for investors, ITM Power, said HyFIVE, an EU funded project (with partners BMW, Daimler, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota), is to deploy three hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) in London. Two ...
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ACS opposes Welsh bag Bill
Local shops in Wales have raised concerns over proposals in the Environment (Wales) Bill that would see new regulations introduced on carrier bags and waste disposal.The Bill puts forward the following proposals: increase the scope of the carrier bag charging regulations to allow Welsh ministers to impose a mandatory charge ...
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ACS opposes Welsh bag Bill
Local shops in Wales have raised concerns over proposals in the Environment (Wales) Bill that would see new regulations introduced on carrier bags and waste disposal. The Bill puts forward the following proposals: increase the scope of the carrier bag charging regulations to allow Welsh ministers to impose a ...
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NewsApplegreen flotation raises £66.9m
Applegreen plc has raised £66.9m through the flotation of the company. At the end of the May Applegreen announced that it intended to float the business to raise funds for expansion and upgrades to existing sites.At the same time it renamed the company, using its Applegreen brand name, so Petrogas ...
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NewsApplegreen flotation raises £66.9m
Applegreen plc has raised £66.9m through the flotation of the company. At the end of the May the company announced that it intended to float the business to raise funds for expansion and upgrades to existing sites. At the same time it renamed the company, using its Applegreen brand name, ...
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NewsJet recruits 12 sites to network
Jet has announced that a further 12 sites have joined its network. The latest wins are Ormlie Filling Station in Thurso, Brierley Service Station in Gloucestershire, an MRH site in Grimsby and nine sites in the north east owned by KSC Worldwide. Jet has secured a multi-million litre volume deal ...