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Summit meeting highlights cleaner diesel
The contribution that commercial vehicles can make to improving air quality is the focus of a summit meeting being held today (February 11). The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) is hosting transport policy makers, vehicle manufacturers and other stakeholders from across the UK at a special event in ...
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NewsIllicit filling station raided in Sunderland city centre
A diesel laundering plant, capable of evading £1.4m in duty, has been dismantled by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in a commercial premises in Sunderland city centre. The laundering plant, with the potential to produce 2.5 million litres of illicit fuel a year, and an illegal filling station were uncovered ...
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Driverless cars given green light
The Government has today (11 February) given the green light for testing driverless cars on public roads. The Government has said it will introduce regulations that will allow industry to trial cars in real-life scenarios. This code of practice is scheduled for publication in spring 2015, with the first driverless ...
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FairFuelUK accuses retailers of profiteering on diesel
FairFuelUK is calling for an inquiry into pump prices and is accusing retailers of profiteering on diesel. Campaigners Quentin Willson and Howard Cox are meeting with MPs this week to press for an inquiry and say that diesel prices have not come down as much as petrol, after the price ...
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NewsWest Country challenging for Best Forecourt Loo 2015
The West Country is mounting a strong challenge for this year’s Best Forecourt Loo award, sponsored by pump top promotions specialist Fast Trak. Chartman’s Winning Post site near Exeter was the first entry this year and now it is facing competition from another of the group’s sites, Hazlegrove Services at ...
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Police release video of petrol station robbery
Sussex Police have this week renewed their appeal for information about an armed robbery of a petrol station and released CCTV footage of the attack. The images show how the man, who was dressed in dark clothing, walked into The Flower Bowl garage in London Road, Petworth, at about 7.45pm ...
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Food safety guide for retailers published
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has published a brand new guide for Managing Food Safety and Hygiene to add to the successful Assured Advice scheme. The new guide provides an overview of what is expected of convenience store retailers to comply with food safety and hygiene laws. The ACS ...
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Minister calls for motorway service station revamp
Transport minister John Hayes has called for motorway services to be revamped to give a far more pleasing experience to customers. The minister was delivering a lecture organised by the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the Campaign for Better Transport and began by suggesting that roads and infrastructure could ...
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New car sales continue to break records
New car market as registrations grew 6.7% in January to 164,856 units – the strongest January since 2007 and the 35th consecutive month of rises. Growth in company car registrations was particularly strong, up 18.1% on January 2014, and 4,598 alternatively-fuelled vehicles registered in January, up 60.8% on last year’s ...
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NewsiPad mini prize for Best Forecourt Loo
An iPad Mini has been announced as the prize for this year’s Best Forecourt Loo competition, which this year is sponsored by pump top promotions specialist Fast Trak. The competition will once again run via a Facebook campaign, which will open up discussion, engage with consumers, and encourage them to ...
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Autogas unveils new look and investment in upgrades
Autogas has unveiled a new look for the brand at the Shell filling station at Stirling Corner in Barnet. The site features a new range of graphics, which are intended to convey a highly visual message that LPG is a cheaper, cleaner fuel and to help drivers to identify more ...
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ACS welcomes ministers’ support for town centres
In a letter to local councils, ministers have told planning officers to use powers in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) to deliver retail investment in town centres. Clarification of planning policy has only previously been delivered by ministers on controversial planning issues such as greenbelt developments. Association of Convenience ...
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NewsFuel prices set to rise predicts PRA
Petrol prices are set to rise after a hefty increase in wholesale prices over the last week, and predictions of less than £1 per litre are likely to be thwarted, according to the PRA. As oil prices plunged during the autumn average pump prices fell by around 23ppl, but from ...
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Harvest Energy signs supply deal with Greenergy
Harvest Energy has done a deal to source petrol and diesel from Greenergy for its customers in the South East of England, Teesside and in Scotland. The supply agreement is part of a deal in which Greenergy has acquired Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel manufacturing facility at Seal Sands on Teesside. The ...
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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 ...