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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 ...
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Cigarette raids linked by police
Two raids in which cigarettes were stolen from petrol stations in Derbyshire are being linked by police. In the first incident, at about midnight on Monday, three burglars prised away metal sheets to get into the Esso service station in Uttoxeter Road, Foston. They made their getaway, with a quantity ...
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NFDA welcomes Consumer Rights Bill
The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA), which represents franchised car and commercial vehicle retailers across the UK, has welcomed the draft Consumer Rights Bill. The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced proposals that aim to streamline overlapping and complicated areas of consumer law from eight existing pieces ...
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Regulation beckons for e-cigs
All nicotine-containing products (NCPs), such as electronic cigarettes, are to be regulated as medicines in a move to make these products safer and more effective to reduce the harms of smoking. The UK Government has decided that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will regulate all NCPs as ...
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Dependence on cars at all time high says RAC
Motorists are more dependent on their cars than ever before, according to a new report from the RAC looking at changes in motoring over the past 25 years. It reports that 89% of motorists are more reliant on their cars today than they were 25 years ago and 78% of ...
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Misplaced confidence means men less likely to seek help with driving than women
The AA Charitable Trust is urging male drivers not to ignore their driving fears after figures reveal how unlikely they are to seek help with their driving. The figures show women are more than three times as likely as men to put themselves forward for driver refresher training that the ...
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Tough climate puts c-store owners on minimum wage
Tough competition and rising costs mean convenience store owners are taking home less than the minimum wage in order to keep their businesses going, according to the latest figures released by the Association of Convenience Stores. The Voice of Local Shops Survey, which polled over 1,100 independent retailers across the ...