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Minister emphasises commitment to low emission vehicles
Transport minister Baroness Kramer has told an industry conference that by 2050 it is expected every car in Britiain will be an ultra-low emission vehicle. Speaking at the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership conference she said: “We are standing on the cusp of a once in a lifetime technological revolution. By ...
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Pump prices fall slightly
After a brief rise, average UK petrol and diesel prices at the pump have started to fall again as oil supply concerns in Libya and the Middle East diminish, according to the latest AA Fuel Price Report. UK petrol pump prices average 131.61p a litre this mid July, down from ...
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Service station ’high lights’ Gulf rebranding
A service station in East Yorkshire has been able to ’high light’ its rebranding to Gulf with a 10-metre pole sign and a canopy fascia fitted with LED illumination. The rebranding of Leven Road Service Station on the A165 in East Yorkshire is the latest initiative by proprietor Roger Perry ...
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MRH plans 30 Subway stores by end of 2015
MRH has revealed more details of its plans to develop Subway stores at its sites after opening the first one at Bellshill in Glasgow. Two more have opened at Springburn, Glasgow, and Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, and it plans to have 10 operating by the end of the year, and 30 ...
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Town centre first policy not working says ACS
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has told an influential group of MPs that high streets continue to suffer from the unrelenting stream of out of town developments. In an evidence session on the operation of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), ACS chief executive James Lowman told the Communities ...
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High Noon adds two more sites
Award-winning independent convenience store and petrol station operator High Noon Stores is to expand its presence across Wales with two new stores opening this month, creating 12 new jobs. The company, which was recently crowned The Grocer magazine’s Independent Retailer of the Year, is opening a petrol station and Spar ...
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NewsMFG owner in talks to buy Murco network
The owner of Top 50 Indie Motor Fuels Group (MFG) is in talks to buy more than 225 Murco filling stations put up for sale by their US owner Murphy Oil. Private equity group Patron Capital, which bought MFG in 2012 and a further portfolio of 54 Murco filling stations ...
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New generation takes charge at Gleaner Oils
Elgin-based Gleaners Oils is planning to expand further into the south of Scotland and north of England as a new generation takes charge of the family owned business. Brian Young, whose father founded the company in 1954, has sold his 50% stake in the business to his niece, Jane Scott ...
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Domestic energy price hikes depressing petrol sales
Record low sales of petrol this spring were a reaction to surging domestic energy bills, according to a poll of more than 18,000 AA members. The slump at the pump occurred while petrol prices were at their lowest for three years. Fifty five per cent of those polled said the ...
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Subway surge in Top 50 Indies forecourts
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 opened ...
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Applegreen development under way
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 of £25m and the creation of 250 permanent jobs.The first two ’super service areas’ are between junctions four and five on ...
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PRA blasts plain packaging
The PRA has reinforced its opposition to plain packaging for tobacco with meetings with health officials in Scotland and promises of a robust response to the Westminster government’s new consultation announced last month.PRA chairman Brian Madderson together with two members of the PRA’s Scottish Regional Committee Jamie Wood, director of ...
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Laundering plant raided A diesel laundering plant capable of producing more than 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 ...
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Cheapest fuel in UK claim from US giant
American giant Costco claims it is selling the cheapest fuel in the UK after it opened its first filling station in this country last month.The filling station is in the car park of its site in Liverpool and is only available to Costco members. Costco UK managing director Steve Pappas ...
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Iraq crisis will lead to price rises
The chairman of the PRA has warned that the crisis in Iraq will lead to fuel price rises and has slammed motoring organisations for suggesting he is scaremongering.Interviewed on BBC Breakfast last week, Brian Madderson told Steph McGovern that the price of Brent crude had hit a nine-month high of ...
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Westmorland opts for Greenergy deal
Greenergy has won the contract to supply retail fuels for three sites owned by the motorway services operator Westmorland. The supply agreement with the family-owned company covers three sites in Cumbria: Tebay Services North and South on the M6; the Rheged Visitor and Conference Centre, just off the A66 near ...
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Esso makes its return to the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Fuels has secured an agreement with Esso to bring its fuels back to the Isle of Wight for the first time in many years.The Esso brand is being launched on the island at The Southern Co-operative Food and Petrol Station in Sandown.David Grannum, general manager of Isle ...
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Exclusive talks could mean Murco sale is on
Negotiations about the sale by Murphy Oil of its Murco business in the UK, including its Milford Haven oil refinery, were in the final stages according to a number of reports, as Forecourt Trader went to press.According to Reuters, oil entrepreneur Gary Klesch was in the final stages of exclusive ...
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Western Isles get greater flexibility
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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Is Stanlow up for sale?
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 or ...