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Card fraud gang sentenced to 15 years
Members of a card fraud gang have been sentenced to a total of 15 years for their involvement in a chip and PIN scam at petrol stations. The four men appeared at Southwark Crown after a series of card frauds that took place in the south of England during 2009. ...
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Energy Minister acknowledges critical role of downstream oil sector
The UK oil industry, from offshore production to the downstream oil sector represented by UKPIA, plays a critical role in the life of the nation, comments Energy Minister Charles Hendry in the introduction to UKPIA’s 2010 Statistical Review, published today. He says it achieves this by delivering secure supplies of ...
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Brulines buys LBI Installations
Brulines Group has agreed to acquire LBI Installations, subject to due diligence, in a deal expected to go through on July 16. Brulines will pay an initial £360,000 followed by performance-related deferred payments. Established in 2006, LBI operates web-based contract management solutions for forecourts. It has a contract with one ...
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MPK partners with Londis
MPK Garages has signed a three year supply agreement with Londis to supply up to 28 of its forecourt sites commencing June 2010. (MPK has over 40 sites and is number six in the Forecourt Trader Top 50 indies list.) Previously supplied by Palmer & Harvey, up to 28 ...
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Fuel price hike warning after BP oil spill
UK retailers have reported that it is "business as usual" at BP forecourts, although storm clouds are gathering. As the oil company prepared to apologise to the US over the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, while offering to set up a multi-billion pound compensation fund as well as scrapping ...
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Budget will "shock us all"
Fuel retailers should get ready to be shocked at the Emergency Budget next week, according to Spar UK MD Jerry Marwood. But while there are expected to be more casualties in the retail market, he said the convenience sector was definitely the right place to be. Speaking at the Spar ...
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Business Rates appeals flood in
More than 500 appeals have already been lodged by fuel retailers over the new Business Rates valuations – with a warning that there are more to come. Brian Madderson, RMI Petrol chairman, stated in a letter to the Exchequer Secretary that the cost to the industry and Treasury of these ...
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Morrisons breaches planning law
A Morrisons forecourt store in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, has been caught breaking planning law by selling non-food items without permission. Under the terms of its planning permission – granted in 1993 when it was a Safeway store – the shop in Ashchurch Road can only sell food and petrol from the ...
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Co-op’s plans split Community
More than 200 people turned up at a town council meeting in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, to hear Midcounties Co-operative’s plans for a new petrol station on Station Road. The site formerly housed a BP forecourt but that closed 12 years ago. Opponents to Midcounties Co-op’s plans say the proposed store is ...
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Fears over alcohol duty hike
The government has been warned not to increase duty on alcohol amid speculation that the Chancellor may be considering another tax hike in the emergency budget on June 22. It has been reported that The Treasury is considering repeating the 5% increase in alcohol duty imposed in ...
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Total helps HGVs go green with AdBlue
Total UK is now offering AdBlue HGV additives from a pump dispenser on five of its UK forecourts. All HGV vehicles are required by law to meet the environmental requirements of the Euro 5 standards on polluting. To meet this green requisite, AdBlue is used in the Selective Catalytic ...
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Shoppers put Esso on top - in big top - at CTP awards
Esso beat off stiff competition from major oil companies to be voted Best Forecourt Retailer 2010 in the Convenience Tracking Programme Awards, organised by research and consulting specialist Him. The award was presented to Andy Hattersley of Esso, by Merril Boulton, editor of award sponsor Forecourt Trader magazine, on a ...
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Brulines buys forecourt solutions specialist
Brulines Group plc (AIM:BRU), specialist in real-time monitoring systems and data management services for the forecourt services and leisure sectors, has agreed to acquire Retail & Forecourt Solutions Ltd. Based in Desford, Leicestershire, RFS describes itself as the UK market leader in fuel pump calibration, adjustment and legal verification, and ...
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Work starts on first of three Scottish Harvest Energy sites
Harvest Energy are "thrilled" that work has started on their first Scottish forecourt, at Crossways Garage, Glasgow Road, Gretna. The site, formerly Texaco branded, is the first of three sites in Scotland, to be receiving the Harvest Energy branding over the next two months. Branding at Crossways is due for ...
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Major gains for Gulf
Gulf’s recent signing of Washbourne Garage, Caldicot from Esso has further strengthened the brand’s presence in South Wales as Gulf continues to grow its dealer network across the UK. Though the two million litre site is just a stone’s throw from Esso’s Avonmouth terminal, dealer Tim Washbourne believes that he ...
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Jonathan James calls for action over planning rules
Jonathan James has urged the government to oppose more out of town supermarket forecourt deveopments. The former Forecourt Trader of the Year is concerned over plans to build a 25,000 square foot store with forecourt about 200 yards from his Slade End Service Station in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Fenland District Council ...
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Shell invests in biotech company
Shell has announced it has bought a stake in US biotech company Virent Energy systems, starting a joint technology programme looking to convert plant sugars directly into diesel. The oil company said it had been conducting a joint research and development effort to make biogasoline from plant sugars with Virent ...
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TomTom agrees new two-year sponsorship deal with Amscreen
Portable navigation system provider TomTom has extended its contract with digital signage specialist Amscreen for an additional two years. Following on from the initial deal in October 2009, TomTom’s HD Traffic will continue to be the exclusive provider of live traffic feeds across Amscreen’s forecourt network, providing millions of motorists ...
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BP and Texaco’s fuel card deal goes live
The deal that brings together the UK’s two largest branded networks to create wider fuel card acceptance for car and van fleets is now live. BP PLUS cardholders can now use 1000 Texaco sites and Texaco’s The Business Card holders can use 1200 BP forecourts. This means that ...
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GreatGas launches fuel card
Great Gas Petroleum (Ireland) Ltd, the Irish owned fuel supplier – part of the DCC Group which owns GB Oils Ltd – has launched the GreatGas FuelCard, designed to offer motorists a faster, more convenient and cost-effective way to pay for their fuel. The GreatGas FuelCard allows cardholders to ...