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NewsPRA arranges Business Breakout near Exeter
The PRA will be staging a Business Breakout in near Exeter on Wednesday February 26 at Sandy Park Conference Centre at junction 30 of the M5.The PRA is a guest of CTC, which is hosting a trade show, and will be in the Baxter Suite from 10am until 1pm.Coffee will ...
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NewsNew online service advises drivers on clean air zone charges
The Government has launched a new online service to help drivers and businesses to prepare for the introduction of clean air zones with charges, in Birmingham and Leeds.The vehicle checker will enable drivers to find out if they will be affected by the change, which will charge the most polluting ...
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News£50m fund launched to back first all-electric bus town
A £50m fund has been launched which will pay for one town to electrify its entire bus fleet. Local authorities have been invited to apply to become the UK’s first all-electric bus town, by transport secretary Grant Shapps. The Department for Transport claims that a town with 200 electric buses ...
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NewsSelf-driving car completes UK road journey of 230 miles
A self-driving car has completed a 230-mile journey on UK roads, negotiating country lanes with no or minimal road markings, junctions, roundabouts and motorways.It was carried out by a British-based research project, HumanDrive, which is jointly funded by UK government through the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and ...
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NewsPRA urges Chancellor to cut 2ppl from road fuel duty in Budget
The PRA has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid urging him to cut road fuel duty by 2ppl in the first Budget of the new Government on March 11.It outlines how under the Laffer Curve – which shows that cutting taxes can increase revenues – a reduction ...
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NewsRobber threatens forecourt staff with suspected firearm
An armed raider threatened staff at a Sainsbury’s petrol station in Belfast with a suspected firearm during a robbery. The gunman entered the Falls Road filling station shortly before 10.30pm on Monday. He told staff to put money and cigarettes into a bag before making off on foot in the ...
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NewsBP rolls out its Wild Bean Café franchise to its dealer network
BP is rolling out its Wild Bean Café coffee and food-to-go franchise to its wider independent dealer network after successful trial installations at five sites. The refreshed offer was located at sites in Scotland, North East England, the South East and South West. The company said that with a strong ...
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NewsDiesels suffer 36 straight months of decline as new car sales fall
The UK new car market declined 7.3% in the first month of 2020, according to figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).It reported that 149,279 vehicles left showrooms in January, as continued confusion surrounding diesel and clean air zones and ongoing weak consumer and business confidence ...
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NewsAsda cuts 4ppl from diesel and 2ppl from unleaded petrol
Asda has announced that it has cut the price of fuel for the second time in a week with a price reduction of 4ppl on diesel and 2ppl off unleaded. Effective from today, Wednesday 5 February, its price cap will be 118.7ppl on unleaded petrol and 120.7ppl on diesel. The ...
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NewsAsda cuts 4ppl from diesel price and 2ppl from unleaded petrol
Asda has cut 4ppl from the price of diesel and 2ppl from unleaded petrol on the day the RAC accused supermarkets of failing to pass on savings from lower wholesale prices.Effective from today, Wednesday 5 February, Asda’s price cap will be 118.7ppl on unleaded petrol and 120.7ppl on diesel.The new ...
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NewsMFG donates £10,000 of fuel to Dorset Tank Museum
Motor Fuel Group (MFG) has donated £10,000 of Murco fuel to The Tank Museum in Dorset for use in its live tank displays.The initiative comes after the company held a recent opening for a new-to-industry service station at nearby Creekmore, for which The Tank Museum lent a WW2 Chaffee tank.William ...
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NewsIndustry slams new date to phase out petrol and diesel cars
Forecourt and oil industry representatives have slammed an announcement by the Government that it may bring forward the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans to 2035, or even earlier.The sector has been working towards a target date of 2040 since it was first set in ...
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NewsJet adds two more sites to its company owned estate
Two more petrol filling stations have been acquired by Jet Retail UK – a wholly-owned subsidiary company of Phillips 66 Limited – taking its total estate to 11 sites. The announcement of two separate acquisitions came just days after Jet Retail UK director Mary Wolf said the company was planning ...
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NewsCo-op site reopens after £2.5m investment in overhaul
The Co-op petrol filling station and food store in Coedpoeth in north Wales has reopened following an extensive programme of works to overhaul and replace the site’s infrastructure, and to rebuild an extended food store. The site underwent a near £2.5m investment in which the tanks, pumps, forecourt and canopy ...
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NewsUK drivers’ interest in low- and zero-emission vehicles doubles
UK drivers are showing signs they are starting to embrace low- and zero-emission electric vehicles, according to the RAC. Research conducted for the RAC Report on Motoring shows the number of drivers who say they will choose an electric car as their next vehicle has doubled in the past 12 ...
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NewsSite offered as development opportunity for fuel retailers
A former petrol station site currently operated as a hand car wash is being offered as a development opportunity for the fuel retail sector.The 0.4-acre site is between Stratford-upon-Avon and Chipping Camden, and is situated close to the Meon Vale development, which has planning permission for 1,050 homes, leisure facilities, ...
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NewsDeal signed for three hydrogen fuel cell buses in Northern Ireland
A deal for the first hydrogen fuel cell-powered buses in Northern Ireland has been signed by the public transport company Translink.Translink has ordered three of the buses from Wrightbus in a deal supported by the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and the Northern Irish government’s Department for Infrastructure.As part ...
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NewsOnline retailer opens first bricks and mortar store at Roadchef site
Roadchef has signed a deal with online gift specialist Prezzybox which will see Prezzybox’s first bricks and mortar store open at a motorway service area (MSA) in February.It will open at Roadchef Strensham South (M5), and will offer visitors the opportunity to buy presents. Commenting on the opening, Mark Fox, ...
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NewsThree men charged with causing explosions during raids on ATMs
Three men have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life after five arrests in connection with a series of ATM thefts across Hampshire and Surrey. The three have also been charged with conspiracy to steal and the charges relate to events between August 2019 and January ...
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NewsACS warns Environment Bill could cause problems for retailers
The Government has confirmed it will re-introduce the Environment Bill to Parliament, kick starting debate on the introduction of a deposit return scheme, reform of the PRN (packaging recovery note) system and a new levy on single use plastics. ACS has warned that the legislation will pose operational challenges for ...