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NewsRoadchef steps up services to support truckers
Motorway service area (MSA) operator Roadchef is stepping up its services to ensure that HGV drivers are supported during the Covid-19 crisis. HGV drivers are driving for longer periods of time per day following the Department for Transport’s announcement that it will extend drivers’ daily limit from nine to 11 ...
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NewsMoto offering free food to HGV drivers who park overnight
Motorway service area operator Moto Hospitality is recognising the contribution HGV drivers are making during the Coronavirus lockdown by offering them free food and extending free parking periods.The free food scheme has been launched at 10 of the company’s sites that are most popular with truck drivers and will be ...
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NewsPolice release CCTV image in bid to catch prosecco thief
Hertfordshire Police officers investigating a theft from a service station in Mill End have released an image of a man they would like to speak to as part of their enquiries. It happened at the M&S Simply Food store at the BP filling station on Uxbridge Road between 8.45pm and ...
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NewsInstaVolt named best charging point network for multiple brands
InstaVolt has been named as the best electric vehicle charging network for multiple brands in 2020 in the first chargepoint survey by Auto Express. In its Driver Power customer satisfaction rankings, the motoring magazine also gave InstaVolt its “Recommended” award. Tesla’s manufacturer-specific network, available only to Tesla drivers, topped the ...
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NewsACS welcomes laws giving greater protection to tenants
Legislation that will protect businesses against aggressive rent collection tactics by landlords during the coronavirus lockdown has been welcomed by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).The government will temporarily ban the use of statutory demands and winding up orders where companies cannot pay their bills due to coronavirus, to ensure ...
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NewsExpert panel at free tobacco webinar
Meet the panellists who will be answering your questions at the free webinar on the future of the tobacco category, being hosted by Forecourt Trader and its sister brands Convenience Store and The Grocer on May 5. With the impending ban on menthol and capsule cigarettes, and with adult smokers ...
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NewsHoyer fuel tanker drivers trained to support NHS oxygen deliveries
Drivers employed as part of Hoyer’s UK Petrolog fuel tanker delivery team have received training to deliver medical grade oxygen to NHS hospitals treating patients with Covid-19. The potential deployment comes after the company approached the Government to see how it could both support the national effort to fight the ...
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NewsNew material offers prospect of cheaper hydrogen vehicles
A new material could give a significant boost to development of hydrogen-powered vehicles, according to the scientists who have invented it.It acts like a sponge and is able to hold and release large quantities of the gas at lower pressure and cost.The aluminium-based material has tiny pores, and one gram ...
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NewsEG Group competitor drops bid for Caltex Australia
The Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn from the competition to buy the Australian fuel retailer and refiner Caltex Australia, but there has been no update from Euro Garages parent EG Group, which has made a rival bid. In a statement, Alimentation Couche-Tard said it was withdrawing its ...
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NewsACS calls for change to grant so more petrol stations will qualify
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is urging the Government to change the eligibility for its business grant support so it takes in more petrol filling stations. When the Chancellor announced the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant to help businesses through the coronavirus lockdown, the upper threshold for eligibility to ...
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NewsACS publishes advice on how to process volunteer transactions
New guidance to help convenience retailers to support customers who are grocery shopping on behalf of others during the COVID-19 outbreak has been published by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). It has been developed to advise convenience retailers about best practice on offering and processing “card not present” payments ...
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NewsRetailers reminded about coming ban on menthol cigarettes
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is reminding retailers about the upcoming ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes which comes into force next month.From May 20, it will be an offence for manufacturers to produce menthol cigarettes and retailers to sell menthol cigarettes as part of the European Union ...
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NewsPRA slams ’sickening’ charges of profiteering levelled at fuel retailers
Branding petrol retailers as “damning and criminal” in these immensely challenging times is “sickening” and “desperate knee-jerk journalism”, stressed PRA chairman Brian Madderson in response to a tweet and subsequent press release from Howard Cox of FairFuelUK. The FairFuelUK media communications claimed that fuel wholesalers and oil companies were still ...
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NewsKent forecourt sold to LSA Oil after 50 years of family ownership
A petrol filling station owned by the same family for more than 50 years has been sold to LSA Oil, after offers were invited at an asking price of £1.65 million. The Gulf petrol filling station and adjoining Bargain Booze store in Ramsgate, Kent, was sold by the ...
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NewsCoronavirus: Furlough claims get under way
Forecourt retailers can now begin the process of claiming wages for furloughed staff through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under the scheme retailers can apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions ...
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NewsShell aims to be net zero by 2050
Shell aims to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, or sooner if possible, as it focuses on its intention to “lead and thrive” through the transition to a low-carbon energy future. In a recent Responsible Investment Annual Briefing the company’s chief executive Ben van Beurden revealed: *An ambition ...
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NewsPolice investigating burglary at Mansfield service station
Nottinghamshire Police officers investigating a report of a burglary at a service station are appealing for information and witnesses.Police were called at around 2.30am on Sunday April 12 to the Texaco Service Station in Rosemary Street, Mansfield, after two men were thought to have broken into the premises before taking ...
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NewsMoto keeps all sites open to support HGV drivers
Motorway services operator Moto Hospitality has had to furlough nearly three fifths of its workforce due to the coronavirus restrictions, but is keeping all of its 46 sites open in order to support the transport sector. Moto CEO Ken McMeikan told Forecourt Trader: “From the very outset when the government ...
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NewsCentral England Co-op beefs up security across its estate
Central England Co-op is warning would-be criminals that it is “not worth the risk” targeting its stores after boosting security measures to keep colleagues and customers safe during the coronavirus lockdown.The retailer, which includes 22 petrol filling stations among its 260-strong estate, revealed it was working closely with police forces ...
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NewsForecourt closures reach 100 as coronavirus hits sales and staff
About 100 petrol filling stations across the UK have closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the PRA has revealed. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said it was hoped that all the closures were temporary, and that the shutdowns had been for a variety of reasons. He said: “All petrol ...