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Suffolk forecourt marks 40,000 milestone for Subway
A Suffolk forecourt has become the 40,000th installation of the sandwich franchise Subway, which will soon celebrate its 48th year in business. The milestone site is an Applegreen petrol station in Ipswich, Suffolk. The momentous achievement for Subway - which has opened 1,761 new locations around the world since ...
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HMRC raids fuel laundering plant
A 51-year-old man had been arrested and interviewed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers after the discovery of a fuel laundering plant in County Down, Northern Ireland, yesterday. The plant, capable of producing around 250,000 litres of illicit fuel a year, was hidden in farm buildings in the Banbridge ...
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Call to honour pledge over covering up ’lads mags’
Despite a pledge by the publishers association, the PPA, that publishers of ‘Lads’ Mags’ would make modesty boards freely available to retailers, an investigation this week by the newsagents group NFRN suggests the industry reponse is patchy at best. According to the NFRN’s investigation, both Smiths News and Menzies Distribution ...
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Low use of automated car washes says BCA report
A small minority of motorists use automated car washes, with a much higher proportion using hand car wash services, according to the latest research from British Car Auctions (BCA). The BCA surveyed 625 motorists during July and found that one in three respondents said they get their car cleaned or ...
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MFG owners buy 54 petrol filling stations
The owners of Motor Fuels Group (MFG) have teamed up again to buy a portfolio of 54 petrol filling stations in a deal worth more than £50m. Aberdeen-based oil industry veteran Alasdair Locke and private equity firm Patron Capital Partners formed a joint venture, Scorpion PFS 1 Ltd, to buy ...
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Applegreen adds 18 sites
Applegreen has nearly doubled the size of its UK operation increasing its sites from 22 to 40, and is already looking for its next 10 acquisitions, according to Michael O’Loughlin, managing director of Applegreen’s brand owner Petrogas UK. He said the acquisitions were not the result of a single deal ...
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Shell Henfield reopens following lengthy closure
Shell Henfield has reopened its doors today following a lengthy closure in a derelict state, which upset the local community. The West Sussex site closed in January 2011 after routine tests discovered soil contamination prior to minor alteration works. Further tests were carried out during 2011 and 2012 and in ...
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OFT approves P&H/Costcutter deal
Palmer and Harvey and Costcutter have expressed their delight at today’s approval by the Office of Fair Trading of the transfer of the 800 Mace, Supershop and Your Store brands to Costcutter Supermarkets Group, announced on March 13. The development means the two companies, by means of a 50/50 jointly ...
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Cigarettes stolen from Norfolk petrol station
Cigarettes were stolen from a Norfolk petrol filling station yesterday after thieves smashed through a glass door. The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning, shortly before 3.30am, when an unknown number of people broke into the Jet Garage on Norwich Road, Wroxham. Police said it was believed ...
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Robbers attack cashier
A 21-year-old cashier at a Lincolnshire petrol station suffered head injuries after two robbers attacked him. The robbery occurred on Monday night at the Ulceby Cross Service Station when two men entered the shop and assaulted the cashier before stealing money from the till. Police said the two attackers were ...
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PRA urges members to act over rural rebate
The PRA is urging retailers to respond to a request for evidence from the HM Treasury as the Government prepares to ask the European Commission for an extension to the rural fuel rebate scheme. The Treasury is asking petrol retailers around the UK to send them information relating to charges ...
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7,500 litres of diesel spilled in tanker rupture
It is estimated that about 7,500 litres of diesel was lost into the surrounding environment following a fuel tanker crash last Friday in south-west Wales. A Texaco-branded tanker was involved in a collision with a crane in Pembrokeshire and fire crews arrived at the scene to find its end tank, ...
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Glasgow police boost measures to tackle drive-offs
Police in Scotland are putting a renewed effort into clamping down on drive-off crime by working with fuel retailers in south east Glasgow. Police and local retailers, in conjunction with the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS), have operated successful BOSS Forecourt Watch schemes in the Rutherglen and Cambuslang areas for ...
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Third Subway opening in new partnership with Blakemore Retail
The Subway brand has opened its third store in conjunction with Spar convenience store group Blakemore Retail, as part of an ongoing partnership between the two organisations. The new store in Newport, South Wales, adds to the two existing Subways in Blakemore’s Newark and Shrewsbury-based sites. There are also ...
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Prices on the rise again, warns PRA
Fuel prices throughout the UK are on the rise again, the PRA has warned, as global political and economic pressures take their toll on the cost of crude oil. The civil unrest in Syria and Egypt, the reduction by one third in Libya’s oil exports and the demand for oil ...
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Fuel tax fraudster jailed for four years
A Manchester man, who gave himself up after seven years on the run from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has been jailed for four years for his involvement in a £2.5m fuel laundering scam. Martin Toland, who used the aliases Michael Kelly and Michael Farnan, had been subject to UK ...
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Third Nisa-branded forecourt launched
Nisa has announced the launch of one of the first Nisa-branded forecourts following its partnership deal with Greenergy. The Nisa Local in Shildon on the outskirts of Bishop Auckland in County Durham is one of the first three fully Nisa-branded forecourts. The forecourt store was built about 15 years ago ...
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New driving legislation welcomed
Road safety groups have welcomed the introduction of new fixed penalty fines for careless driving offences and increases in fines for other offences such as speeding and mobile phone use. From today police can stop drivers and issue a £100 ticket on the spot for risky driving such as tailgating ...
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Large diesel theft from Grantham service station
Lincolnshire Police are appealing for information after the theft of a large amount of fuel from a service station, near Grantham. This incident took place on Friday August 9 between 1.30am and 6am at Great Ponton Services on the A1 northbound. Police say the perpetrators gained access to underground storage ...
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Massive diesel theft in Sweden
Forty thousand litres of diesel have been stolen from an automatic filling station in Sweden, according to The Local, an English language website covering the country. Police are hunting for the thieves who stole the fuel from a site in Vilhelmina, northern Sweden. The culprits managed to manipulate the pump ...