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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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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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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released by Government as part of a consultation on changes to Sunday Trading regulations have been dismissed as out of date and misleading, by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).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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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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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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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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Enlarged Rontec signs £1bn fuel deal with BP
Rontec has signed a £1bn supply deal with BP following its merger with Snax 24.The merger formally brings together Gerald Ronson’s two fuel retailing businesses, although for the purposes of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies, they have chosen a united listing since 2014, and are currently ranked third with ...
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HMRC introduces new kit in fight against illicit fuel
HMRC has started the roll-out of new road-side fuel-testing equipment across the UK to tackle the trade in illicit diesel. It will be used to check fuel both at the roadside and on dealers’ forecourts. Treasury minister Damian Hinds visited Belfast and Newry as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) unveiled ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Car tax changes will increase emissions warns AA
Take-up of low emission vehicles is likely to be much lower due to a change in the car tax, according to a survey of AA members. Almost three out of every five AA members (59%) who responded say there will be little or no incentive to buy low CO2 ...
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Robbers burn down forecourt shop
Robbers set fire to a petrol filling station shop at Spaldwick in Cambridgeshire after smashing their way in with an axe. There was a lone male member of staff working at Spaldwick Service Station, and the shop was closed, when the attackers struck at around 3.30am on Monday August 3. ...
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Consultation starts on Sunday Trading changes
The Department for Business and the Department for Communities and Local Government have published a full consultation on plans to allow local authorities and metro mayors to increase the hours that larger shops can open on Sundays. Association of Convenience Stores chief executive James Lowman said: “By pressing on ...
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Raid uncovers fake vodka
An illegal alcohol factory, containing 130,000 litres of potentially toxic fake vodka, worth £1.7m in unpaid duty, was uncovered in an industrial unit in Widnes on Friday, 31 July. During a joint operation HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Cheshire Police and trading standards officers seized: 130 x ...