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Volvo developing cars that don’t need petrol stations
Volvo is developing self-filling cars that would never need to visit a petrol station, according to reports in the Daily Mail. When the tank is close to empty, the car would send a message via smartphone to a mobile fuel supplier to come and fill it up. The supplier would ...
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Call for bigger parking spaces
Parking spaces need to be considerably larger, according to a major parking trader. A new parking industry standard designed to ensure that spaces are large enough to accommodate modern vehicles is being called for by the car parking marketplace YourParkingSpace.co.uk. The move is needed, it claims, after research showed that ...
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Armed robber strikes at BP site in Fife
Police are appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery at the BP petrol station in St Clair Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, in the early hours of Sunday 1 February. A man entered the shop at the petrol station at around 3.15am and threatened a staff member with a bladed weapon and ...
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New nationwide LPG conversion network approved by Autogas
A new nationwide network to convert vehicles to run on LPG autogas has been set up in a bid to boost sales of the fuel. The scheme has been approved by Autogas, the joint venture between Shell and Calor. Autogas says the new conversion scheme provides drivers with a branded ...
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Cross border raids in £110m tobacco fraud probe
Two illegal tobacco factories and more than 14 tonnes of tobacco have been uncovered by raids in Ireland and Blackpool. Five people from Tyrone and Down in Northern Ireland have been arrested by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers as part of a cross-border investigation into a suspected £110m tobacco ...
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Plain packaging vote sparks trade protests
The Government has caused uproar among tobacco companies and trade associations with its confirmation that a vote on the introduction of standardised tobacco packaging will take place before Parliament breaks ahead of the General Election. Health Minister Jane Ellison announced during an evening adjournment debate on January 21 that the ...
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Good outlook for property
Specialist property adviser Christie + Co is predicting a buoyant market in the forecourt sector in its Business Outlook 2015, report. Director and head of retail Steve Rodell predicted the convenience sector would grow in value, and that there would be further oil company disposals over the coming year, and ...
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MFG puts site up for sale to resolve competition issue
The Seapoint Filling Station in Hythe, Kent, which MFG is selling to resolve competition authority concerns over its acquisition of Murco’s retail business, provides a rare opportunity for a buyer, according to the property adviser working on the sale. Adam Wadlow, director of Barber Wadlow, said: "For a single site ...
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Duty rebate plan clears major hurdle
Plans for a 5ppl fuel duty rebate for 17 rural areas have cleared a major hurdle, chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has announced. The European Commission (EC) has given its approval and, although it still requires agreement through the Council of the European Union, the minister said he ...
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chris Hunt
This year finds the UK refining sector facing the same extremely testing conditions that it has faced for the past decade, but the pressure on refining has increased dramatically. Towards the end of 2014, we saw the closure of Murco’s Milford Haven refinery as an operational facility following four long ...
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Nisa reveals its new chief
Nisa has announced the appointment of Nick Read as its new chief executive officer. He will take over from Neil Turton this month.Read joins Nisa from Thomas Cook, where he shaped the customer experience as group customer service director.Prior to this he was the commercial operations director at Vodafone UK.Nisa ...
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Moto renews P&H deal Motorway services operator Moto has renewed its supply deal with Palmer and Harvey, for an additional three years. Palmer and Harvey has been supplying Moto since March 2008, and the new contract commenced on January 1, 2015, and will run until December 2017, providing 41 Moto ...
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Auk replaces BP with Shell at Prizet sites
Auk Ltd, an independent dealer in the North West, has signed a new supply contract with Shell at its Prizet Services sites northbound and southbound on the A591 near Kendal.Simon Hockings, one of Auk’s three directors, said: "We are very pleased with the new look of the forecourt. The Shell ...
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Sales take off after change of brand
Kenworth Ltd, a family-run forecourt operation and an early adopter of Nisa as a fuel brand with Greenergy-supplied fuel, has reported a dramatic rise in fuel and shop sales at two of its sites in the North East.Wheatley Hill Service Station, County Durham, switched from Jet to Nisa in November ...
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Indie cuts petrol to 99.7ppl
Road fuel prices have seen one of the greatest falls on record, and an independent retailer has cut his price to less than £1 a litre for unleaded petrol, but David Cameron and his team of ministers still claim the industry is not doing enough to pass on the benefit ...
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Euro Garages boosts its sales 47% to £646m
Euro Garages has grown sales by nearly 50% by further expanding its UK footprint and attracting new customers to its existing network.In results for the year to July 31, 2014, the Blackburn-based company saw turnover climb to £646m, a rise of 47% compared with 2013 (£439m), and profit was up ...
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PRA meets minister to press its case for 2ppl cut in duty
The PRA has met with the Exchequer secretary Priti Patel to press its case for a 2ppl cut in fuel duty funded by a tax windfall from the increased fuel volumes. At the meeting the PRA provided an analysis of Government data showing the overall volume of road fuels supplied ...
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HMRC raids shops in Midlands and London
Shops in the West Midlands and west London have been raided in operations to clampdown on illegal tobacco and alcohol. More than one million suspected illicit cigarettes have been seized during an operation to disrupt the sale and supply of illegal tobacco in Birmingham and Smethwick. Officers from HM Revenue ...
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Morrisons trials BOSS Payment Watch scheme
Morrisons has begun trials with BOSS (The British Oil Security Syndicate) and its Payment Watch scheme. Morrisons is running a trial of the BOSS Payment Watch scheme over several forecourts within its estate. Fuel service stations within Morrisons’ trial group have become individual members of BOSS’s debt recovery scheme that ...
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Tesco filling stations avoid the axe
Tesco has said that none of its 500 filling stations are involved in the store closures that were confirmed this week. Earlier this month Tesco said it planned to close 43 loss-making stores, and on Wednesday January 28 it published the list of the sites it was closing. In total, ...