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Armed duo rob Rossendale filling station
Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a petrol station in Rossendale, Lancashire, on Monday 22 December. At shortly before 9.50pm, two men wearing balaclavas entered the Spar shop at the Shell Garage on Burnley Road armed with knives. They leapt over the counter and threatened the ...
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Government promises £6bn to repair roads
A record £6bn will be spent on tackling potholes and improving local roads between 2015 and 2021, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced today (23 December 2014). The investment amounts to £976m a year, enough to fix around 18 million potholes across the country. It is the first time councils have ...
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NewsAA dismisses prospect of petrol below £1 per litre
The AA has dismissed suggestions by rival motoring organisation the RAC that petrol could fall below £1 a litre in the New Year, but said the crash in fuel prices over the past month is the third largest it has recorded. In its latest monthly fuel report the AA said: ...
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Independent claims lowest fuel prices
An independent operator who runs three filling stations in the West Midlands believes he is currently selling the cheapest fuel in the UK. Since Monday Velautham Sarveswaran, who runs the Harvest branded forecourt at Alcester Road, Redditch, as well as at Alcester Road South, Maypole, and at Abelwell Road, Walsall, ...
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Thieves steal CCTV system from car wash
Thieves who targeted a car wash in Derby took the site’s CCTV system as part of their haul. Derbyshire Police are appealing for information after a break-in between 6.20pm on Friday, December 12 and 8.30am on Saturday, December 13 at the UK Car Wash on Chequers Road near to the ...
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Cigarettes stolen from Tesco forecourt in break-in
Police are appealing for witnesses after a large amount of cigarettes were stolen from a Tesco fuel station in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire. Three men forced open shutters to the kiosk area at the site in Buxton Road, before breaking through the door. They then stole a large number of cigarettes ...
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NewsCCTV film of armed robbery released by police
Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses to a knife point robbery at a service station in Petworth, West Sussex. At around 7.45pm on Monday (December 15) at The Flower Bowl Garage in London Road, a man walked into the garage with a knife and a baseball bat. He threatened the ...
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Harvest adds new recruit to retail team
Harvest Retail has recruited Lee Slater to its expanding retail team as dealer business manager for Scotland. Lee has held senior roles within the industry and first joined the sector in 2004 with Tokheim UK. In his new role he will be responsible for looking after existing key strategic accounts ...
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ACS welcomes consultation on e-cigarettes
ACS has welcomed a consultation from the Department of Health on introducing age restrictions for the purchase of electronic cigarettes. The proposed regulations would: Make it an offence to sell nicotine inhaling products (such as e-cigarettes) and related products to anyone under the age of 18 years; Extend ...
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NewsMinister admits 130 unsafe tankers still in use
About 130 fuel tankers that do not meet safety standards are still in use on British roads and forecourts more than a year after the problem was first reported. In a written statement to Parliament in October last year, transport minister Robert Goodwill reported that 230 fuel tankers, about 12% ...
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Two arrested after 70,000 cigarettes seized
Two people were arrested in connection with the seizure of over 70,000 cigarettes and three kilos of hand-rolling tobacco by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on Tuesday December 16. HMRC officers searched private and commercial premises at Ballymena and Ballymoney, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where they seized 12,020 suspected ...
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Knifepoint robbery in Lancashire
Lancashire police has released CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to following a knifepoint robbery at a service station. At around 9.30pm on Sunday (November 14), a lone man has entered CS Service Station, known locally as Mr C’s, on Helmshore Road, Haslingden, with a large ...
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Certas Energy strengthens retail team
Certas Energy has strengthened its retail team with the appointment of Ian Welch and Gary Conway, both former employees of Harvest Energy, as it continues to expand its Gulf branded network across the UK. “We are delighted to bring Gary and Ian into the Certas Energy family,” said Ramsay MacDonald, ...
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Topaz confirms purchase of Esso’s Irish retail business
Topaz Energy Limited has confirmed the reports that began circulating in Ireland last week that it is buying Esso’s retail business in the Republic. Under the agreement, the Topaz parent company, Kendrick Investments Limited, will purchase the shares of Esso Ireland Limited and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Ireland ROC Limited ...
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Burglars steal cigarettes from forecourt shop
Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after a burglary at the Co-op Texaco petrol station in Charnham Street, Hungerford. At 2.20am on Thursday (December 11/12) three offenders arrived at the petrol station in a dark coloured Audi convertible. Two of them forced entry to the petrol station and stole ...
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NewsRobber assaults sales assistant
Police in Sandwell, West Midlands, have released images of a man they want to trace after he assaulted a petrol station worker and stole cash. The man, described as black, around 30 years old, 5’6 with cropped or shaven black hair and stubble, was caught on CCTV as he struck ...
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ACS welcomes report on planning
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has welcomed a report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee criticising the application of planning policy by local authorities. In its report on the operation of the National Planning Policy Framework, the committee has drawn attention to shortcomings in the way planning ...
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News2ppl cut takes Asda unleaded to 110.7ppl
The big four supermarket groups have all announced that they will cut a further 2ppl off the price of unleaded petrol and 1ppl off diesel from tomorrow (Thursday December 18). This means Asda’s national price cap on unleaded petrol will be 110.7ppl with diesel at 117.7ppl. Andy Peake, Asda’s petrol ...
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NewsRAC predicts unleaded petrol will fall below £1 a litre
The RAC is predicting petrol could be selling for less than £1 a litre for several months at the start of 2015, due to the plummeting price of oil – a pump price last seen in late May 2009. The price of Brent crude has fallen below $60 a barrel ...
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HMRC seizes pumps from forecourt
A filling station suspected of selling illicit fuel has had its forecourt pumps removed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). HMRC worked with specialist contractors to remove the fuel pumps and an over-ground fuel storage tank safely at the forecourt in County Down, Northern Ireland. At a second site, also ...