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Diesel’s price advantage is being eroded
Diesel’s undercutting of petrol may be short-lived if recent trends continue. Plummeting prices in July sent diesel below petrol for the first time in 14 years, and by mid-August the price differential had stabilised at around 3ppl, but a flurry of petrol price cuts in the week before Forecourt Trader ...
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First site opens after Jet’s deal with Spar
The UK’s first Jet and Spar dual-branded site has opened following the April launch of a new convenience partnership between fuel brand and the symbol group. Jet Maybole in South Ayrshire is the first in a number of Jet sites that have chosen to take up the dual-branding offer. The ...
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UK leads Europe in alternative fuel vehicles
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), while ...
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Hydrogen Toyotas arrive in the UK
The first hydrogen powered Toyota Mirai cars have arrived in the UK for their official launch this month. Toyota is billing the Mirai as the world’s first mass-produced fuel cell saloon, and is launching it in selected European markets the UK, Germany and Denmark where a hydrogen fuel supply and ...
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Tax experts back retailers over vapour recovery
Tax experts have strongly supported the case for fuel retailers to receive refunds for fuel removed by oil company’s 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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Londis prepares for carrier bag levy
Londis has developed dedicated in-store pos displays to prepare retailers and shoppers in England for the carrier bag levy. From Monday 5 October, as part of the Government’s policy to reduce waste, a minimum 5p charge for single use carrier bags comes into force in England for retailers with over ...
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Cashier involved in card scam is spared prison
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 up their ...
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Robbers steal cashbox on forecourt
A cash box has been stolen after a security worker was threatened at a service station in Middleton, Greater Manchester. At 2.25pm on Monday 14 September, the worker got out of the van after parking at Middleton Service Station on Oldham Road and she was approached by two men. One ...
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Chargepoint chain opens
Transport minister Andrew Jones visited the Eden Project in Cornwall on August 6 to open the first rapid plug-in car chargepoint at the site, part of 16 being installed across Devon and Cornwall this summer.The public will be able to use the new infrastructure to charge their plug-in cars in ...
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NewsRAC claims on diesel security rejected
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 UK’s increasing need to import diesel as diesel demand has ...
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Synergy rolled out to dealers
The roll-out of Esso’s new Synergy forecourt and fuel branding has continued with its first appearance on a dealership supplied by Greenergy under its branded wholesaler agreement with Esso. Shailesh Parekh said his Midland Link site in Birmingham had been an Esso forecourt for nearly five years and was coming ...
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Motorway services safety slammed
Too many motorway service areas are a mess of conflicting signs, worn-away road markings and bewildering road layouts, according to a survey by the Road Safety Markings Association (RSMA). The survey assessed the external layout of 85 motorway service areas, including two criteria for pedestrians: amenity (are walkways in place); ...
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Pair raid Wrexham service station
North Wales Police are appealing for information after a service station near Wrexham was robbed in the early hours of Saturday morning (September 12). The incident happened at around 3.30am at the Esso Service Station in Rhostyllen. Two men in their late twenties, one armed with a hammer, made off ...
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Research undermines Sunday trading plans
Research conducted for the Association of Convenience Stores by independent think tank the Social Market Foundation has found that the Government has failed to apply the family test to its plans to liberalise Sunday trading regulations. The family test was introduced in 2014 by the Prime Minister, who launched guidance ...
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£20,000 fine threat over immigration arrest
A site operator for MRH is being threatened with a fine of up to £20,000 after Home Office investigators arrested a man working at one of its sites. Acting on intelligence, Immigration Enforcement officers visited the BP petrol station, Dartford Road, March, Cambridgeshire, on 9 September at about 2pm. ...
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Rontec overcomes resistance to 24 hour drinks licence
Rontec has won an extension of a drinks licence on one of its sites to 24 hours, despite opposition from local police. The company’s Esso Town Hall Service Station at Crossgate, South Shields, is a 24-hour site and already had a licence to 2am, but applied to be allowed ...
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Cheddar forecourt sold
Cheddar Motors in the Somerset village of Cheddar has been sold in a deal brokered by specialist property adviser Christie & Co.The freehold interest in the forecourt and convenience store has been sold for an undisclosed sum. The buyer is an experienced Sri Lankan forecourt operator from Guildford who is ...
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Nisa to supply ex-Morrisons c-stores
The team that bought 140 Morrisons convenience stores earlier this week has announced it has signed a five-year supply deal with Nisa Retail worth up to £1bn. Fresh sales will make up a large part of the offer of the stores, which will be renamed My Local, with 45% ...
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NewsShell to site hydrogen refuelling on three forecourts
The first deal to fully integrate hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) onto UK forecourts has been agreed by Shell. ITM Power, the energy storage and clean fuel company, has signed a strategic siting partnership with Shell for the delivery of HRS on three Shell sites in the UK. Oliver Bishop, ...