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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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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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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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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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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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Kay Group hit by ATM raid
Two ATMs have been tampered with at Top 50 Indie, The Kay Group’s Kitchens Service Station in Burnley. According to the This is Lancashire website, police were called to the forecourt on Monday night (June 9) after customers noticed two men who were acting suspiciously outside the shop. Officers discovered ...
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New BP/M&S Simply Food in Rutland
Work is under way on a new £1m BP forecourt and M&S Simply Food outlet in Oakham, Rutland, which is set to open this autumn. According to The Rutland Times, the development got the go ahead back in 2012 but the developer BBE Corby Ltd wanted to wait until the ...
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Sainsbury’s first-quarter results confirm fall in fuel sales
Evidence of the slump in supermarket fuel sales was revealed today in Sainsbury’s latest financial results. Chief executive Justin King blamed cautious customer spending for a drop in first quarter sales of 0.3% at Sainsbury’s when fuel was included, but up 1% when it wasn’t. Like-for-like retail sales for the ...
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Police seek forecourt tobacco raiders
Police are hunting for a gang which is believed to be behind a series of early morning forecourt and supermarket raids across Doncaster. According to The Star, the latest took place early on June 10 at the Tesco Extra superstore in Balby. The forecourt shop was attacked just before 2.45am ...
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NewsForecourts targeted for Mary Portas treatment
Retail expert Mary Portas is back with a new TV series offering help to shops and businesses throughout the UK and is seeking appropriate candidates - particularly forecourts. Optomen Television, the BAFTA-winning TV production company behind shows such as The Great British Menu and Heston Blumenthal’s Feast, will be making ...
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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 ...
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Online campaign against plain packaging
Campaigners against standardised packaging of tobacco have launched an online advertising campaign against the policy. The ’No, Prime Minister’ campaign was created by the smokers’ group Forest which runs the Hands Off Our Packs campaign. It features a letter that opponents of plain packaging can send to David Cameron in ...
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Euro Garages expects its turnover to exceed £1bn
Euro Garages expects its annualised turnover to top £1bn following the deal to take over 48 Esso sites in the Midlands and East of England, which has now been completed. In its most recently published results for the year to July 31, 2013, turnover was £439m, up 40% from the ...
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Petrol hits an all time low
Sales of petrol in the UK plummeted to the lowest level on record in March despite an average price below 130ppl. Petrol sales figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that UK drivers this March bought 1.367 billion litres compared to 1.375 billion litres last March, which was the ...
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Bristol ATM blown up
A cash machine at a petrol station in Bristol has been blown up, following on from a similar attack at a garage in the city a month earlier. Police and firefighters were called to the Texaco garage on Bell Hill Road in St George, at 3.10am on Thursday May 15 ...
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Investigation into pipeline breach grows
Police looking into two cases where diesel was stolen by drilling into an underground Esso pipeline have widened their investigation and say there have been other breaches of fuel lines. In April police discovered that thieves had dug down to Esso’s Midline pipeline at Manton in Wiltshire and East Wellow ...
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in brief
Major diesel theft Thousands of litres of diesel have been stolen from two Hertfordshire filling stations in raids last month. A total of 20,000 litres was stolen over two consecutive nights from a BP station owned by MRH in London Road, Buntingford. The theft occurred a week after £8,000 of ...
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Murco management seek to buy company
Murco’s network of filling stations could be involved in a management buyout together with the company’s threatened oil refinery at Milford Haven. Managing director Tom McKinley has told staff he is taking a leave of absence while he works on the plan. Brian Kelly, head of Murphy’s business development in ...
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Chartman’s ’Winning Post’ legacy opens
A major redevelopment of the Chartman Group’s Winning Post Service Station reported by Forecourt Trader across three issues (see page 21) has finally opened its doors following a gruelling construction period marred by heavy rain. The company had waited seven years to carry out the development on the A38 near ...
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Dealerships help police to combat drive-offs
Widespread drive-off and number-plate crime in the West Midlands has prompted police to join forces with car dealerships across the region in a new crime reduction initiative. From this month, showrooms in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Coventry will fit anti-theft number plate screws as standard to every vehicle they ...