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Certas agrees competition deal in Western Isles
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has accepted binding commitments from Certas Energy and DCC plc which aim to improve competition in the supply of petrol and diesel to filling stations in the Western Isles of Scotland. The commitments bring an end to contracts which provided for many filling stations ...
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Fuel laundering plant uncovered in HMRC raid
A diesel laundering plant capable of producing over eight million litres of illicit fuel a year has been uncovered by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in a cattle shed in Northern Ireland. Officers from HMRC, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the DOE Environmental Crime Unit searched a ...
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Government invests in repairing potholes
The government has outlined plans to help fill more than three million potholes as part of a massive investment in England’s roads. Councils across England have been allocated £168m of funding from a dedicated Pothole Repair Fund. As a condition of receiving the money local authorities are required to publish ...
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NewsDiesel 3 pence per litre more than it should be says AA
Drivers of diesel vehicles in the UK are paying up to 3ppl more than they should for their fuel, according to the AA. In its latest Fuel Price Report it says the average gap between petrol and diesel prices at the pump is 5.23ppl, but the gap at wholesale level ...
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Topaz offers special prize for millionth player in loyalty game
Topaz, the largest fuels and convenience retailer in Ireland, has announced that the customer who makes the one millionth play in its loyalty game Play or Park will win an experience of a lifetime of their choice. More than 250,000 Topaz customers have registered for Play or Park and the ...
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Police crackdown on drive-offs in Lancashire
Lancashire police have launched a crackdown on ‘drive-offs’ after a surge in the number of cases across the county. Last year 1,323 ‘drive-offs’ were reported in the county, up 19.3% on the 974 cases in 2012, and there have been 270 cases reported since April this year. As part of ...
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Cigarette smuggler jailed for three years
A self-employed lorry driver from the West Midlands who tried to smuggle more than eight million cigarettes into the UK by claiming he was delivering textiles, has been jailed for three years after attempting to evade £1,600,000 in duty. David Brian George, 59, from Bilston, was stopped at the Humber ...
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New European deal to limit food-based biofuels
EU ministers have agreed a 7% limit on the amount of biofuels made from food crops in transport fuel. The deal breaks the deadlock reached late last year, when European Union governments failed to agree on a proposed 5% cap on the use of biofuels based on crops such as ...
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Tesco pilots new service station concepts in Czech Republic
Tesco is piloting new service station concepts in the Czech Republic, in line with the growing convenience trend in Central Europe, according to a report on the IGD website. The report says Tesco is the market leader in the Czech convenience store market, operating two banners: Tesco Express and Zabka. ...
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Nicolites welcomes report dismissing e-cigarette ’gateway’ claims
A Public Health England (PHE) report scotching concerns that non-smoking children who have tried e-cigarettes will go on to smoke tobacco has been welcomed by a leading supplier, Nicolites. The company made the comments after the PHE-commissioned study, undertaken by the University of Stirling, found no evidence that under-age users ...
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Petrogas starts work on £25m motorway services project
Petrogas Global, trading as Applegreen, has started work on the first two of its four motorway service areas in Northern Ireland which, when completed will represent a total investment by the company of £25 million and the creation of 250 permanent jobs. The first pair of super service areas are ...
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UK roads ranked 24th in the world, says RAC report
With 4.2m motorists choosing to travel to Europe by car every year, many motorists are witnessing first-hand how far Britain’s roads are lagging behind our European counterparts in terms of quality. A new report by the RAC has found that an increasing number of Brits driving abroad ...
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Owner puts West Yorkshire forecourt on the market
Specialist property adviser Christie + Co has been appointed to market the leasehold interest in Flush Garage, a former petrol station in Liversedge, West Yorkshire. Flush Garage occupies a prominent trading position on Wakefield Road (A638) – a busy arterial route providing access to Dewsbury, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford and Huddersfield. ...
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Government urged to rethink exemption for small businesses on carrier bag charge
The Association of Convenience Stores has urged Ministers to reconsider after they have dismissed calls from an influential Committee of MPs to apply a 5p charge to all shops in England that give out single use carrier bags. The Ministers set out their view in the response to the report ...
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Essar reported to be trying to sell Stanlow refinery
The owners of Stanlow oil refinery at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire are seeking to sell the facility, according to reports in the Financial Times. India’s Essar Group, which bought the refinery from Shell for $350m in 2011, is in talks with a number of parties about selling a minority stake ...
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MRH signs deal with Subway
MRH, the number one company in the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indies with 380 sites, has signed a corporate partnership deal with Subway, while another leading Top 50 Indie, Euro Garages, has reached an important landmark in its partnership with Subway. The first Subway store at an MRH site has ...
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Inspector rejects Morrisons appeal over Welsh site
Morrisons has had a bid to build a petrol station next to one of its supermarkets in North Wales rejected. The retailer was appealing a planning application that had been turned down, but it was dismissed by a planning inspector. Morrisons had applied for planning permission for a new filling ...
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Government accepts lower fuel duty boosts economy
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has welcomed an acknowledgement by the Government that lower fuel duty can be an economic stimulus. It said the admission came at a meeting at the Treasury between chief secretary Danny Alexander and representatives of FairFuelUK (FFUK). At the meeting, the chief secretary presented FairFuelUK ...
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Raids in £11m tobacco duty fraud investigation
Nine people have been arrested and two illegal tobacco processing plants discovered after an investigation into suspected tobacco duty evasion of £11m and associated money laundering offences. During coordinated raids 80 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) criminal investigators searched premises in Dorset, the West Midlands, London, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, ...
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Henderson Group returns record profits
The Mallusk-based Henderson Group achieved record profits £18.4m in 2013, up 17.5% on the previous year, on a 3.6% increase in turnover on 2102 to £642.8m in 2013. The family-run retail, wholesale and foodservice group owns the Spar, Eurospar, Vivo, and Vivoextra franchises in Northern Ireland, and supplies more than ...