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Volkswagen Group Leasing offers fleet fuel card
Volkswagen Group Leasing, the leasing arm of Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd, is the first UK contract hire company to offer the recently launched Fuel+ Card. Working with The Miles Consultancy, a mileage audit and fuel expense management specialist, Volkswagen Group Leasing’s Fuel+ Card is accepted at 99% of the ...
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Euro Garages chooses Micros EPOS system
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages is upgrading its estate to the Micros Iridium 2 Prism 2 EPOS system supplied by Micros Systems. Micros will also be the sole supplier to any new Euro Garages forecourt sites, including the 48 new Esso sites which it agreed to buy earlier this year. ...
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NewsPRA supports MP’s campaign against plain packaging
The Petrol Retailers Association has joined Priti Patel MP in her campaign to oppose the UK Government’s plans for plain packaging for tobacco products, a policy which it claims is already opposed by more than 70% of retailers. Priti Patel has warned that introducing plain packaging will have a range ...
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Cole & Day set the Pace in Somersham
A filling station in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, is on track to increase fuel sales by 35% after switching its fuel supplier from Power to Pace. Cole & Day, which is owned by William and Sandra Day, expects to achieve annual fuel sales of more than 900,000 litres in its first year ...
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PRA to hold forum in Bury St Edmunds
The PRA’s next regional forum is being held in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, at the Quality Hotel Bury St Edmunds, Symonds Road, on Wednesday May 21. Coffee will be available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on the agenda include: Introduction by Richard Chadderton, ...
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NewsMurco reassures retailers over supplies
Murco has moved to reassure its retailer customers after revealing earlier this week that it has stopped buying crude oil to be processed at its Milford Haven refinery in South Wales. In a statement on Monday, Murco said: “As we have said, we are actively engaged with certain third parties ...
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Blaze shuts M3 services at Fleet
The motorway service station on the M3 at Fleet, Hampshire, had to be closed during the evening rush-hour on Wednesday April 30 after a lorry that was transporting 16 tonnes of straw caught fire. Hampshire Fire Service was called to the blaze on the exit slip road on the westbound ...
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Detectives seek service station burglars
Detectives in the New Forest, Hampshire, are appealing for information after a burglary at a petrol station on the A35. A dark coloured Vauxhall Corsa style car entered the Hinton Service Station forecourt from the Dorset direction of the A35 at 3.48am on Friday, April 25. Three people got out ...
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NewsCarsley Group unveils site with "stopping power"
Top 50 Indie Carsley Group is celebrating the completion of one of the most striking filling stations in the UK, a year and a half after it was first mooted. In September 2012 Mark Carsley, managing director of the Carsley Group, met the team who were going to design and ...
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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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Murco stops buying crude oil to be processed at Milford Haven
Murco has revealed that it has stopped buying crude oil to be processed at its Milford Haven refinery in South Wales, as talks about its future continue. In a statement on Monday, Murco said: “As we have said, we are actively engaged with certain third parties that have expressed an ...
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Warning diesel is causing thousands of deaths
Policies encouraging the massive rise in the number of diesel vehicles could be responsible for thousands of premature deaths in the UK, according to the Government’s chief adviser on air pollution. Professor Frank Kelly, chair of the Department of Health’s committee on air pollution, said particulates from diesel engines could ...
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Tobacco manufacturer criticises new EU Directive
Tobacco manufacturer JTI has criticised new tobacco regulations that have just been finalised by the EU. Commenting on the Tobacco Products Directive, which is due to come into operation by May 2016, JTI UK managing director Daniel Torras said: “These regulations that have been supported by the UK Government are ...
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NewsSainsbury’s flagship site threatened with demolition
Sainsbury’s could be forced to demolish the canopy on its flagship solar-powered filling station at Bishop’s Waltham in Hampshire after it was discovered to be 500mm higher than approved by planners. The site, which was opened in November last year, was the first Sainsbury’s filling station featuring photovoltaic (PV) glass ...
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Lightning strikes for second time at Dorset petrol station
A petrol station in Christchurch, Dorset, has been struck by lightning for the second time this year. Staff in the shop at the BP garage in Somerford Road reported the building vibrating and the power shorting out when the lightning struck at around 2pm on Monday. The fire brigade was ...
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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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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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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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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 ...