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Formula 1 star to work at Shell service station
Customers at Shell’s Towcester service station in Northamptonshire will be receiving a special ‘pit stop’ service on the eve of the British Grand Prix at the nearby Silverstone race track. Ferrari’s Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver Felipe Massa will be popping into the service station on his way to the ...
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Trio charged with filling station robbery
Two men and a woman have appeared in court charged with robbing a Gulf petrol station in Clifton, Bedfordshire, last month. Stuart Battams, 41, of Station Road, Tempsford, and Emmanuel Buckland, 39, of the same address, are charged with robbing the Clifton Filling Station in Broad Street at around 4.55pm ...
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Police publicise crime campaign on petrol pumps
Police in Staffordshire are using messages on supermarket petrol pumps to publicise a campaign targeting uninsured drivers. ‘Cars Behind Bars’ is a campaign instigated by Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis and has resulted in about 200 uninsured vehicles being seized, some to be scrapped, in the five weeks ...
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Jet turns yellow and blue into green
Jet is rolling out a new green initiative to complement the re-imaging of its sites, which enables it to recycle the old yellow and blue plastic bins, but only after some teething problems. Previously, when sites were re-imaged the bins were classified as waste and disposed of, but Sharon Morrow, ...
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Council objects to Asda filling station plan
Councillors in a Somerset town have sent objections to the planning authority over proposals by Asda to build an automated petrol station outside its Highbridge store. Members of the Burnham-on-sea and Highbridge Town Council’s Planning Applications Committee expressed safety concerns about extra traffic at the site and the impact on ...
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PRA hits back at AA profiteering claim
The PRA has angrily hit back at claims by the AA that dealers are profiteering on the price they charge for diesel. The AA claims that differentials between the wholesale and retail price of diesel, compared with petrol, suggest retailers are “creaming up to £1 a tank extra off diesel ...
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MFG signs 46-site fuel supply deal with BP
Top 50 Indies forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has announced the signing of a new multi-site fuel supply agreement with BP. Jim Mulheran, MFG’s fuels director, said: “We are delighted to have recently concluded a new deal with BP and we look forward to our continued association with the ...
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Garage robber jailed for two years
A drunk robber who held up a Co-op petrol station in Cornwall while wearing a see-through plastic bag over his head has been jailed for two years. Jamie Neil, 41, was arrested after a police officer recognised him from CCTV footage days after the robbery. Truro Crown Court heard how ...
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Morrisons renews Eurotank contract
Morrisons has renewed its tank maintenance contract with Eurotank Environmental for a further three years. Eurotank will continue to undertake all tank maintenance services including tank cleaning and tank and line testing on all 316 Morrisons petrol filling stations plus 11 regional distribution centres. Ahmed Mulla, Morrisons’ forecourt operations manager, ...
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Symonds strives for international award
Symonds Retail, winner of Forecourt Trader of the Year 2012 and Best Forecourt Loo 2013, is now seeking international recognition after clinching the Independent Retail Chain of the Year in last week’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013. The forecourt group has followed up its UK hat-trick by entering the International Convenience ...
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Government approval for Trust My Garage
The Independent Garage Association’s (IGA) Trust My Garage (TMG) scheme is set to become a government-approved code specifically for the independent garage sector. Following the move of the consumer codes approval scheme into the Trading Standards Institute (TSi), the IGA has announced that Trust My Garage will become the consumer ...
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New food labelling deal announced
New food labelling to help consumers make healthier choices has been launched today by public health minister Anna Soubry. The new label will combine red, amber, green colour-coding and nutritional information to show how much fat, saturated fat, salt and sugar, and calories are in food products. Manufacturers including Mars ...
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J&E targets convenience sector with new condensing units
Two new ’energy-efficient’ digital scroll commercial condensing units targeting the convenience sector have been launched by J & E Hall. The Series 3 Fusion Digital Scroll Commercial Condensing Unit and the Series 5 Fusion Twin Scroll Commercial Condensing Unit are the next generation in medium temperature control technology. They offer ...
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Retail apprenticeship scheme set for summer rollout
A new scheme to help retailers and market traders to recruit talented apprentices is set to be launched across the UK this summer. The Retail Apprenticeship Scheme (RAS) was piloted last year in a select number of cities but will now be rolled out nationwide to retailers of all sizes ...
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IAM calls for L-drivers to be allowed on motorways
Young drivers must be allowed to gain early motorway driving experience, according to road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM). With a green paper on learning to drive due to be published later this month, the IAM are calling on the government to ensure that any new system ...
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ACS & PRA co-host July 4 forecourt seminar
Essential insights into the most effective ways for fuel retailers to succeed in a competitive market will be the prevailing theme at this year’s Forecourt Seminar, which takes place on July 4 at the King Power Stadium in Leicester. The event is co-hosted by the Association of Convenience Stores and ...
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New trophy for Symonds
Symonds Retail, winner of Forecourt Trader of the Year 2012 and Best Forecourt Loo 2013, has now added Independent Retail Chain of the Year to its trophy cabinet following this week’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013. The glitzy event, organised by Forecourt Trader’s sister publication The Grocer, took place at London’s ...
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Motorcycle sales up marginally
Motorcycle sales increased slightly last month, but there is still a long road to recovery for the motorcycle market, according to Sue Robinson, director of the National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA), which represents motorcycle retailers across the UK. The latest new motorcycle and scooter sales figures were up 0.5% against ...
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Robbery police release pic of man
Greater Manchester Police have just released an image of a man they want to speak to about an armed robbery at a petrol station in Oldham last month. At around 9.30pm on Saturday 11 May, a man approached the kiosk at Asda petrol station on Milne Street in Chadderton in ...
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Fuel pump crash closes petrol station
A Co-operative Food petrol station near Bournemouth has had to be evacuated after a car drove into one of the fuel pumps. Fire crews were called to the petrol station at 6.30 this morning after a 26-year-old female driver hit the pumps at the service station, on the westbound A31 ...