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Over 5,000 litres of diesel stolen from Essex forecourt
More than 5,000 litres of diesel has been stolen from Coventry Hill Service Station at Hullbridge, near Rayleigh, Essex. Staff discovered the theft on Sunday morning and found that 5,620 litres had been taken. Police said that two men parked a Luton van on the forecourt just after midnight on ...
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ACS calls on Ofgem to limit backbills
The Association of Convenience Stores has written to the energy regulator Ofgem, calling for all energy suppliers to limit backbills to 12 months. In December, Ofgem published the results of an investigation into backbilling cases between 2012 and 2013, revealing that over the course of 12 months there had been ...
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Cambridgeshire Police and retailers use BOSS system
Police and retailers in Cambridgeshire are working with the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS) to use a new electronic system for reporting incidents of people driving off from petrol station forecourts without paying for fuel. The Electronic Reporting System (ERS) is the latest innovation from BOSS. Electronic reporting enables retailers ...
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NewsBusinesses urged to takes precautions over flooding
Environmental services provider Adler and Allan is urging businesses to take proper precautions to protect their assets from the effects of flooding. It says flooding costs small and medium size enterprises between £75,000 and £120,000 on average, and with the recent wet and stormy weather, many properties previously unaffected by ...
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Man seriously injured in petrol tanker collision
A man has been taken to hospital in Inverness, Scotland, with serious injuries following a crash involving a petrol tanker. Officers from the Highlands and Islands Division of Police Scotland are appealing for information following a two vehicle collision which occurred on the A9 at Poles, near Dornoch. The collision ...
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Petrol prices at three-year low says RAC
The average price of petrol has fallen below the 130p mark for the first time since the end of February 2011, according to the RAC, while diesel has also come down to its lowest price since mid-July 2012. Quoting prices provided by Fuel Prices Online, which uses wholesale pricing information ...
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NewsPub opens at motorway services
Road safety campaigners have criticised Wetherspoon’s after it opened the first pub at an English motorway service station yesterday. The Hope and Champion is at the services next to junction two of the M40 near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, operating from 4am until 1am seven days a week, and is licensed from ...
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Jet ’proud’ to launch new standards and service programme
Fuel brand Jet has announced the launch of a new standards and service programme, ‘Proud to be Jet’. The programme assesses, benchmarks and continually measures site performance across all Jet-branded forecourts based on annual compliance audits and other brand-related criteria set by the company. The Jet-funded programme has been designed ...
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Payment Watch tops 1,800 members
BP has renewed its membership of the BOSS Payment Watch scheme for 2014 bringing the number of BOSS Payment Watch members to more than 1,800 sites. BP operates more than 300 company owned stores across the UK and has been a member of BOSS Payment Watch since the scheme was ...
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Euro Garages on target for 200 sites this year
Euro Garages has more than doubled the size of its estate in the space of a year to almost 180 sites, following the deal to acquire 48 Esso sites announced last week. The agreement to acquire the 48 Esso sites in the Midlands and east of England follows the purchase ...
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Old £50 notes to be withdrawn
The Bank of England has announced that the £50 banknote carrying the portrait of Sir John Houblon, the first governor of the Bank of England, will be withdrawn from circulation on 30 April. From that time only the £50 note featuring Matthew Boulton and James Watt, which was introduced in ...
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Attempted robbery at petrol station in Aberdeen
Police are appealing for witnesses after an attempted robbery at the BP petrol station on King Street, Aberdeen. The incident happened at around 8.30pm on Thursday 16 January, and the first male suspect is described as being around 5 foot 8in tall, of slim build and wearing a black hooded ...
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NewsBP accused of trying to wipe out customer’s business
The owner of a BP garage has accused the oil giant of aiming to wipe out his business after it won planning permission for a massive development just 50m from his site. His grievance was deepened because the first he knew about the planning application, which was made on November ...
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Girl arrested in connection with forecourt robbery
A teenage girl has been arrested in connection with an attempted robbery at Sainsbury’s petrol station in Kidderminster. It happened at about 11.30pm on Wednesday, 8th January, in Carpet Trades Way, as staff were cashing up. Three masked offenders, armed with a crowbar, forced their way in through a rear ...
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NewsChildren welcome treat from Spar forecourt
A Spar forecourt owner in Wiltshire, who decided to give local school children Christmas presents, received a warm welcome when he arrived to hand them over. The children in Musbury near Axminster were so delighted when they heard their local Spar shop was going to give them free chocolate selection ...
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Costco to start work on first UK petrol station
Asda’s reputation as the provider of the UK’s cheapest fuel could soon face a stiff challenge when Costco opens its first petrol filling station in this country. As Forecourt Trader revealed last summer the US giant applied for and was then granted planning permission for a petrol filling station (PFS) ...
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Robbers steal large quantity of cigarettes
Surrey Police are investigating a robbery that took place during a delivery to a petrol station on Kiln Lane, Epsom. Officers were called to the Sainsbury’s garage at around 7.40am on 9 January after reports that two men wearing balaclavas entered the back of a delivery van which was being ...
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NewsWarning on major new entrant stalking forecourt sector
A significant new retail entrant to the forecourt sector could make its presence felt in 2014, according to Steve Rodell, director and head of retail at specialist property adviser Christie & Co. “They have significant capital funding and could buy a national chain if they are able to find the ...
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Gulf links with film for promotion
Gulf has launched a new promotion in partnership with 20th Century Fox and its new animated film Mr Peabody and Sherman. All customers who purchase fuel at Gulf forecourts until 18 February will be given a special transaction reference which can be used to enter the competition by SMS or ...
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Sainsbury’s reaches milestone with forecourt site
A new Sainsbury’s forecourt and store opening tomorrow will represent a major milestone for the supermarket giant as the number of Sainsbury’s Local stores exceeds its supermarkets for the first time. The store, Sainsbury’s Balsall Common Local in Coventry, is the 594th Sainsbury’s Local. Mike Coupe, Sainsbury’s group commercial director, ...