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Three forecourts stores shortlisted for Budgens awards
Three forecourt stores are among the sites shortlisted by Budgens for its ‘Store of the Year’ 2015. Stores are judged in four categories – small, medium and large store and community store of the year, with an additional award for the overall winner. Two of the three stores selected for ...
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Camelot to refresh retailers’ lottery equipment
Camelot has announced a major refresh of permanent point of sale (PPOS) equipment across its 47,000-strong retailer estate. The five-month retail rollout – the first such overhaul in over five years – will begin in mid-July and will see retailers receiving updated PPOS, including: a refreshed National Lottery Playstation; ...
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Police car smashes into Manchester forecourt
A police car has smashed into a Morrisons petrol station in Manchester after it lost control while responding to an emergency call-out. The accident occurred at Morrisons’ petrol station on Ashton Old Road in Openshaw on Wednesday April 15 at around 8:30pm, and ended with the badly damaged police car ...
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Man jailed for six years for tobacco fraud
A Ugandan High Commission worker has been jailed for six years for obtaining 28 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco and failing to account for over £4.8m in evaded duty after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Patrick Mbogo abused privileges available to diplomats by purchasing large quantities of tobacco ...
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Sewell starts major redevelopment at Maybury
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has begun a major refurbishment to improve its Maybury fuel and convenience store, located in East Hull. The store is being extended and comprehensively remodelled to create more space for a wider variety of produce. Work on the site is being headed up ...
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MFG ranked in Top 10 private companies
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has been ranked 9th in a league table of British private companies with the fastest-growing profits, in the 16th annual Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100. The league table published on 12 April ranks companies according to growth in profits over ...
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AA urges motorists to question election candidates
The AA has launched a pre-election campaign urging drivers to question parliamentary candidates on what they will do to help drivers. Using results on drivers’ views from the AA Populus Panel it has suggested the ten most popular promises for motorists would be: Fewer potholes ...
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Man charged over attempt to steal from oil pipeline
An attempt to steal fuel from a national oil pipeline appears to have been thwarted after a 29-year-old man was charged with two offences following an incident in Ludlow on Wednesday 8th April. West Mercia Police were carrying out routine patrols along the route of a national fuel pipeline when ...
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NewsPolice name suspect in fuel station robbery
West Yorkshire Police have released details of a man they want to trace in connection with the robbery of a fuel station in Huddersfield. Nathan Simms, aged 19, of Kirkheaton, is wanted in connection with a robbery which occurred at a petrol station in Cooper Bridge on Sunday, 22 March. ...
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Motorcycle sales increasing
Sales of new motorbikes increased to 25,249 in the first quarter of 2015, compared with 22,606 in the same period last year, according to the latest statistics released by the Motor Cycle Industry Association. Stephen Latham, head of the National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA), which represents motorcycle retailers across the ...
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NewsMFG and Euro Garages acquire bulk of Shell sell-off sites
Shell UK has accepted offers for the sale of 185 company-owned service stations from Motor Fuel Group and Euro Garages, following a confidential commercial process to find the right independent dealers to purchase up to 250 Shell sites, which began last Autumn. Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has acquired 90 sites, ...
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Greenergy supplying nearly 250 Esso-branded sites
Greenergy has revealed that the number of Esso-branded sites it supplies has risen to nearly 250. It began supplying Esso-branded dealers in Northern England, North Wales and Scotland just over two years ago when it took on fuel supply to 90 Esso-branded dealer sites. This was followed with supply to ...
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NewsAnglesey forecourt gutted by fire
Rebuilding work is set to begin this week on a Texaco Service Station at Pentraeth, Anglesey, which was gutted by fire on Good Friday. The owners of the site, Lewis Forecourts, have put up signs in the village, thanking the public for their support and saying that the rebuilding process ...
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Car rams petrol pumps in Plymouth smash
A petrol pump has been destroyed by a car that crashed into it at the Texaco garage at Embankment Road in Plymouth, Devon. A black Ford Focus rammed into pumps three and four and hit another car at around 5.30pm on April 2. A fire appliance from Devon & Somerset ...
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Monthly cars sales hit new record high
Monthly car sales hit the highest level this century in March with nearly half a million, 492,774, cars registered. It was the 37th month of consecutive growth for the new car market and the best month since twice-yearly number plate changes were introduced in 1999. Registrations so far this year ...
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Organised crime gang jailed for robberies
Eleven members of an organised crime group who preyed on petrol stations and convenience stores have been jailed for a total of 75 years after a series of robberies in Stockport and Tameside. Six men from Stockport aged between 18 and 34 and a 17-year-old youth pleaded guilty at Minshull ...
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Tobacco fraudstars jailed
Four men behind a tobacco counterfeiting fraud, worth around £95,500 in evaded duty, have been jailed for a total of six years after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Eric Cuerton, 57, from Grimbsy, John Stewart, 51, from Birkenhead, and Ronald Johnson, 53, from Dartford, were arrested in ...
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HGV speed limit raised
Speed limits for HGVs (goods vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tonnes) have increased by 10mph on dual carriageways and single carriageway roads. From 6 April the speed limit increased from 50mph to 60mph on dual carriageways and from 40mph to 50mph on single carriageway roads. Motorway limits for HGVs remain ...
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Knifeman robs Liverpool service station
Merseyside Police is appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery at a petrol station in north Liverpool on Thursday 2nd April. Shortly after 9.30am, patrols were called to the BP garage on Great Howard Street by staff reporting they had been robbed. A man had entered the shop armed with ...
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Euro Garages to buy 104 sites from Esso
Agreement to sell 201 sites to three Top 50 independent retailers has been confirmed by Esso Petroleum Company and ROC UK (ExxonMobil). The long-awaited decision, following a strict bidding process, means Euro Garages Ltd has taken the lion’s share with 104 sites; followed by MRH (GB) Ltd with 78; and ...