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NewsChartman hosts Highways Agency campaign launch
Chartman Group’s flagship Winning Post service station at Haldon Hill on the A38 outside Exeter has hosted the launch of the Highways Agency’s annual winter driving campaign. Chartman director Clive Sheppard said the request came out of the blue and the company was happy to help out. They were ...
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NewsAA defends retailers over prices
Petrol retailers are being unfairly criticised for not passing on savings to motorists as oil prices have plunged, according to the AA. Since mid October, the average price of petrol across the UK, has dropped 4.3p from 127.22ppl to 122.93ppl this week. Diesel has also fallen by around 4ppl, down ...
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Petrogas parent reports 12% sales increase
The company that owns Petrogas UK has reported a 12% increase in sales for last year despite “tough trading conditions and tightening fuel margins”. In its annual results for 2013, Petrogas Global said turnover rose to €804.5m last year from €717.3m the previous year. Pre-tax profit rose to €10.1m from ...
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Man arrested after 1.37 million cigarettes seized
A man has been arrested after 1.37 million suspected smuggled cigarettes were seized by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in Manchester on November 19. HMRC officers, working in partnership with the North West Motorway Police and Greater Manchester Police, stopped a van on the westbound M602. It contained the foreign ...
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NewsJet tankers promote Road Safety Week
Jet is helping to raise road safety awareness by rebranding four of its tankers for the duration of Road Safety Week (17 – 23rd November). Set up in 1997, Road Safety Week is coordinated annually by national charity Brake each November. Now the UK’s biggest road safety event, it aims ...
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Hydrogen at Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s is claiming a UK supermarket first with the installation of a forecourt hydrogen dispenser, which will be installed on its Hendon store by the end of the year.Sainsbury’s says the SmartFuel station will be able to fuel a growing number of hydrogen-powered fleets driving around London.Avishai Moor, Sainsbury’s fuel ...
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Sewell ploughs more money into Hull West
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go has announced it is investing a further £250,000 in its most successful site, Hull West on the A63 Westbound, after a £1m redevelopment was completed at the end of 2012. Sewell will be developing a bespoke parking area for long-haul lorry drivers. Work ...
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SuperStation top prize goes to Tanerdy Garage
Tanerdy Garage in Carmarthen, which recently switched to Gulf after 80 years with Shell, has been awarded the title of Best Gulf Site at this year’s SuperStation awards, organised by Gulf brand owner Certas Energy. Stephen Smith, proprietor of Tanerdy Garage, said: "Everyone at Tanerdy Garage is thrilled. It’s a ...
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Petrol prices plummet to four-year low
The lowest unleaded petrol prices looked likely to fall below 120ppl as Forecourt Trader went to press, with the prices having fallen 6ppl in a month after the major multiples launched another round of price cuts at the beginning of last week. Tesco beat its competitors to the punch by ...
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Fire concerns over e-cigarettes highlighted
The government has launched a number of measures to boost the safety of e-cigarettes in response to increasing concerns over the number of fires caused by their use. Responding to a growing number of incidents caused by faulty e-cigarette chargers, the Department for Communities and Local Government has put forward ...
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Euro Garages climbs table
Euro Garages has attained 38th place in this year’s Sunday Times Top Track 250 league table, which ranks Britain’s mid-market growth private companies by their sales. The Blackburn-based fuel retailer recorded a 40% sales increase to £438m, and a 71% increase in profit to £12.4m. Ilyas Munshi, Euro Garages commercial ...
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NewsSocial media storm over price ’scam’ claim
MRH has found itself at the centre of a social media storm after a customer shared a picture on Facebook which he claimed showed he was being overcharged. The story was picked up by news outlets and at 1pm today the picture, which appears to show a charge of 125p ...
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Fears duty freeze could cease
While business and consumer groups have called for a cut in fuel duty ahead of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on December 3, there are fears the Chancellor could bend to economic pressures and actually increase it.PRA chairman Brian Madderson has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, asking ...
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Pollution charge mootedA charge of up to £12.50 a day on top of the congestion charge has been proposed to deter the most polluting vehicles from entering the centre of London. The Mayor and Transport for London have launched a public consultation on proposals to introduce the world’s first Ultra ...
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Toyota boss predicts hydrogen will supplant gasoline
Toyota’s chairman predicted hydrogen would take over from gasoline as the primary fuel as it announced that it will begin selling hydrogen fuel-cell electric cars in Japan on 15 December, 2014, and in the US and Europe in mid-2015. The Toyota Mirai, which means Future in Japanese, has the cruising ...
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Forecourt clinches top Bestway award
A forecourt shop in Leicester has been presented with a top award at Bestway Wholesale’s annual Retail Development Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. Last year Kalpesh and Meeta Raja, who run the shop at Parker Drive Service Station in Beaumont Leys, won the category award ...
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JTI removes gantries after illegal tobacco prosecution
Two retailers have had their tobacco gantries removed by JTI after they were found guilty of selling illegal tobacco. JTI removed the gantries from Stones Newsagents in Lewisham and Little Health Supermarket in Greenwich after they were prosecuted for selling illegal tobacco and fined a combined total of over £6,000. ...
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Jet adds to numbers in north east England
Jet has increased its presence in north-east England through new contracts with Penny Petroleum that have seen seven new sites join the network and a further three sites sign retie deals.Penny Petroleum has a portfolio of 25 retail sites, with the majority in the north of England, and was ranked ...
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Sewell is new ACS vice chairman
Patrick Sewell, managing director of Top 50 Indie Sewell On the Go, has been appointed deputy chairman of the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS)At the same time Paul Hagon, group strategy and development director of Palmer and Harvey, has taken over as ACS chairman.The duo replace former Forecourt Trader of ...
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Regus opens first workspace on M6
Regus, the workspace provider, has opened its first Express location on the M6 motorway, at Sandbach South motorway service area. This will be followed by further Regus Express launches before Christmas at Strensham North (M5), Watford Gap (M1), Chester (M56) and Norton Canes (M6 Toll). Phil Kemp, global managing director ...