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NewsHoyer fuel tanker drivers trained to support NHS oxygen deliveries
Drivers employed as part of Hoyer’s UK Petrolog fuel tanker delivery team have received training to deliver medical grade oxygen to NHS hospitals treating patients with Covid-19. The potential deployment comes after the company approached the Government to see how it could both support the national effort to fight the ...
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NewsNew material offers prospect of cheaper hydrogen vehicles
A new material could give a significant boost to development of hydrogen-powered vehicles, according to the scientists who have invented it.It acts like a sponge and is able to hold and release large quantities of the gas at lower pressure and cost.The aluminium-based material has tiny pores, and one gram ...
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NewsEG Group competitor drops bid for Caltex Australia
The Canadian convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard has withdrawn from the competition to buy the Australian fuel retailer and refiner Caltex Australia, but there has been no update from Euro Garages parent EG Group, which has made a rival bid. In a statement, Alimentation Couche-Tard said it was withdrawing its ...
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NewsACS calls for change to grant so more petrol stations will qualify
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is urging the Government to change the eligibility for its business grant support so it takes in more petrol filling stations. When the Chancellor announced the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant to help businesses through the coronavirus lockdown, the upper threshold for eligibility to ...
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NewsACS publishes advice on how to process volunteer transactions
New guidance to help convenience retailers to support customers who are grocery shopping on behalf of others during the COVID-19 outbreak has been published by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). It has been developed to advise convenience retailers about best practice on offering and processing “card not present” payments ...
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NewsRetailers reminded about coming ban on menthol cigarettes
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is reminding retailers about the upcoming ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes which comes into force next month.From May 20, it will be an offence for manufacturers to produce menthol cigarettes and retailers to sell menthol cigarettes as part of the European Union ...
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NewsPRA slams ’sickening’ charges of profiteering levelled at fuel retailers
Branding petrol retailers as “damning and criminal” in these immensely challenging times is “sickening” and “desperate knee-jerk journalism”, stressed PRA chairman Brian Madderson in response to a tweet and subsequent press release from Howard Cox of FairFuelUK. The FairFuelUK media communications claimed that fuel wholesalers and oil companies were still ...
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NewsKent forecourt sold to LSA Oil after 50 years of family ownership
A petrol filling station owned by the same family for more than 50 years has been sold to LSA Oil, after offers were invited at an asking price of £1.65 million. The Gulf petrol filling station and adjoining Bargain Booze store in Ramsgate, Kent, was sold by the ...
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NewsCoronavirus: Furlough claims get under way
Forecourt retailers can now begin the process of claiming wages for furloughed staff through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under the scheme retailers can apply for a grant that covers 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contributions ...
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NewsShell aims to be net zero by 2050
Shell aims to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, or sooner if possible, as it focuses on its intention to “lead and thrive” through the transition to a low-carbon energy future. In a recent Responsible Investment Annual Briefing the company’s chief executive Ben van Beurden revealed: *An ambition ...
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NewsPolice investigating burglary at Mansfield service station
Nottinghamshire Police officers investigating a report of a burglary at a service station are appealing for information and witnesses.Police were called at around 2.30am on Sunday April 12 to the Texaco Service Station in Rosemary Street, Mansfield, after two men were thought to have broken into the premises before taking ...
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NewsMoto keeps all sites open to support HGV drivers
Motorway services operator Moto Hospitality has had to furlough nearly three fifths of its workforce due to the coronavirus restrictions, but is keeping all of its 46 sites open in order to support the transport sector. Moto CEO Ken McMeikan told Forecourt Trader: “From the very outset when the government ...
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NewsCentral England Co-op beefs up security across its estate
Central England Co-op is warning would-be criminals that it is “not worth the risk” targeting its stores after boosting security measures to keep colleagues and customers safe during the coronavirus lockdown.The retailer, which includes 22 petrol filling stations among its 260-strong estate, revealed it was working closely with police forces ...
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NewsForecourt closures reach 100 as coronavirus hits sales and staff
About 100 petrol filling stations across the UK have closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the PRA has revealed. PRA chairman Brian Madderson said it was hoped that all the closures were temporary, and that the shutdowns had been for a variety of reasons. He said: “All petrol ...
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NewsKay Group plans multi-million pound redevelopment of HQ
The Kay Group has applied for planning permission for a multi-million pound redevelopment of its Grimshaw Park Service Station in Blackburn. The Top 50 independent is to completely demolish the site - which is also the company’s headquarters - and replace it with a ‘unique’ and ‘contemporary’ three-storey building and ...
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NewsCo-op forecourt boosted by return of retired store manager during pandemic
A village petrol station has been boosted by the return to the shopfloor of a former store manager to provide support during the Coronavirus outbreak – just eight weeks after she retired from the role. Iris Naylor had worked at the Central England Co-op food store and petrol filling station ...
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NewsGovernment extends consultation for earlier ban on ICE vehicles
The Government is extending the consultation period on ending the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and vans from 2040 to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible. The new deadline has been extended by two months to 11.45pm on July 29, 2020. Earlier this ...
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NewsCashier threatened with crowbar during petrol station robbery
A gang of robbers threatened a cashier at a forecourt with a crowbar before emptying the shop’s cigarette gantry and fleeing. The incident happened around 11pm on Monday 13 April at St Marys Filling Station on Nottingham Road, in Nuthall, near Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police officers reported that three offenders forced ...
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NewsWelcome Break donates Easter Eggs to food bank network
Motorway service operator Welcome Break organised an Easter Egg Giveaway over the bank holiday weekend, donating flowers, over 30,000 eggs and other sweet treats to food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network across the country. The Trussell Trust works with around two thirds of the nation’s network of food banks, ...
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NewsPetrol pump damaged as criminals blow up ATM
A petrol pump has been damaged by an explosion caused by wreckless criminals who were trying to blow open a cash machine on a forecourt. The attack took place at about 3am on Sunday April 12 at Woodhouse Mill petrol station in Sheffield. The Star website reported that shocked ...