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£500m boost for ultra low emission vehicles
The Deputy Prime Minister has announced the main elements of a £500m package of measures to support the development and use of ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) to 2020. Included in the package is at least £200m to extend the duration of the Plug-in Car Grant and a range of ...
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HMRC smashes huge illegal tobacco operation
A massive illegal tobacco operation has been smashed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Officers raided a farm in Essex this week, as well as four premises near Bury and another in Blackburn two weeks ago, and seized cash, chemical agents, counterfeit packaging and tobacco packing machinery. The officers dismantled ...
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Staff member punched during filling station robbery
A staff member at a filling station was punched in the stomach during a robbery in Wigan. At 1.20am on Friday 18 April 2014, three men forced their way through the front door of the BP petrol station on Warrington Road, Goose Green. One of them walked up to an ...
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Forecourt construction company collapses
A construction company which has been a main contractor for Esso, Shell, BP, Roadchef, and Granada/Moto has been placed into administration and made all its staff redundant. Stacey Construction, which is based at Wiveliscombe, Somerset, and was set up in 1967, said in a statement: “The redundancies have been brought ...
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NewsSelf-cleaning car ’could make car washes obsolete’
Nissan has developed a self-cleaning prototype which it claims could make car washes obsolete. A Nissan spokesman said: “Washing a car can be a chore - and a costly one at that. In response, Nissan has begun tests on innovative paint technology that repels mud, rain and everyday dirt, meaning ...
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Esso Midline pipeline reopens after diesel theft repairs
Esso has resumed operation of its Midline pipeline following repairs and tests. The pipeline, which transports fuel from the Fawley Refinery in Hampshire to Birmingham Fuel Terminal, had to be closed last week after a tapping device was found inserted into it. The device was discovered near an industrial storage ...
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Police release CCTV images after petrol station threats
Nottinghamshire Police have this week released CCTV images of a man they they want to question about an incident where threatening behaviour was used towards staff at a filling station. The incident occurred on February 22, 2014, at the Tesco Express filling station in Clifton Lane, Clifton, Nottingham. The man ...
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Government invites bids for £168m pothole repair fund
The Government is inviting councils to bid for a share of a £168m Pothole Fund to repair roads. Successful local authorities will sign a pothole pledge as a condition of the funding, setting out the number of potholes they will have repaired by March 2015. Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: ...
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Strong pound helping to keep fuel prices stable
Average UK petrol pump prices continue to hold below the 130ppl level despite pressure in the oil and wholesale fuel markets, according to the latest AA Fuel Price Report. It said increases in wholesale prices would have pushed up prices at the pumps by 3ppl to 4ppl had it not ...
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Jet launches Facebook page
As part of its drive to increase brand awareness and footfall across its dealer network, fuel brand Jet has launched a consumer-centred Facebook page. Anne Day, brand communications manager at Jet, said: “Existing industry social media strategies have, in our view, failed to take advantage of the likes of Facebook, ...
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NewsDiesel theft closes major Esso pipeline
Esso has reassured customers it does not expect any disruption to deliveries even though it has had to shut down the Midline pipeline that transports fuel from the Fawley Refinery in Hampshire to Birmingham Fuel Terminal. It was closed after a tapping device was found on the pipeline following the ...
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Prison sentences for cigarette fraudsters
Four men, who tried to evade more than £1.3m in duty and taxes due on sales of almost six million illegal cigarettes, have been sentenced to a total of six and a half years in prison after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The investigation centred around four ...
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Armed robbers strike at Petrogas site.
Armed robbers have struck at the Petrogas filling station in Bicester Road, Aylesbury. Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after two men, armed with a knife and possibly a firearm, attacked at between 7.45am and 7.55am on Monday morning (April 21). A member of staff in his fifties was ...
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Sainsbury’s announces 10ppl-off promotion
Sainsbury’s has announced that from tomorrow, Thursday 24th April, until Wednesday 30th April, customers who spend £60 or more will receive a voucher providing 10ppl off fuel at any of its 290 forecourts. Customers who spend £60 or more in Sainsbury’s supermarkets, Local stores or online will all receive a ...
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Nisa boosts sales by more than 10%
Nisa has announced strong growth in its annual results, with sales up 10.5% in value terms and 12.9% in volume year on year. During the year it recruited 692 stores, and the retail group says that on average retailers who join it see a sales uplift of around 10% in ...
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OIl companies and distributors sign up to visit UNITI expo
Key distributors and oil company executives will be out in force at the inaugural launch of UNITI expo, according to the organisers of the new European convention for the petroleum retail sector. The exhibition opens in Stuttgart, Germany from June 3-5, and aims to unite all core and peripheral aspects ...
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PRA members urged to lobby MPs over plain packs
PRA members are being urged by the association to lobby their MPs against government proposals to introduce plain packaging on tobacco. The call comes after the Chantler Review, which was set up by the Government to look into the issue, came out in favour of plain packaging. Priti Patel MP, ...
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NewsHMRC raids illegal filling station
An illegal filling station and two laundering plants, capable of producing nearly 15 million litres of illicit fuel a year and evading almost £10m in lost duty and taxes, have been dismantled by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Officers from HMRC and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) raided ...
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Unite criticises DECC report on refining sector
The Unite union has criticised a review on the refining and fuel import sectors in the UK by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for being complacent over the country’s energy security. The government review was in response to the closure of the Coryton refinery in 2012 and, ...
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UKPIA extends agreement to test diesel
UK oil refiners have renewed a voluntary agreement to test diesel fuel to ensure it won’t block filters in car engines. The test was introduced in response to a wave of breakdowns across the country caused by filters becoming blocked by a gel-like substance in diesel. The voluntary agreement was ...