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NewsWelsh retailer invests £100,000 in revelopment of site
A service station in the market town Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire has reopened after a £100,000 redevelopment, including rebranding as a Murco forecourt. The owner of Llandeilo Service Station, Sithamparappillai Paramesvaran (known locally as Appan) closed the site for five months to totally redevelop the forecourt and shop. He said: “A ...
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NewsPolice visit car washes as part of anti-slavery strategy
Officers from Wiltshire Police visited two car washes in north Swindon on Tuesday August 20 as part of a strategy to tackle modern slavery. Sergeant Nathan Perry, who helped plan the operation, said the cash-in-hand businesses could be used as fronts for organised crime gangs. The police officers were joined ...
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NewsWarning after skimming device is found on Northern Irish forecourt
Police in Northern Ireland have issued a warning after a skimming device was discovered fitted to the card slot on a fuel pump at a filling station at Cookstown in County Tyrone.The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) warned the public to be on the lookout for anyone acting suspiciously ...
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NewsPosters warn holiday makers about selling untaxed tobacco
A new nationwide advertising campaign to alert summer holiday makers of the consequences of selling untaxed tobacco in Britain has been launched by the TMA, the trade association representing the UK tobacco industry.Poster and phone box adverts at strategic locations show the despair faced by individuals caught bringing tobacco back ...
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NewsSainsbury’s offers 10ppl discount for third time in two months
Sainsbury’s has launched its third promotion in two months offering customers a discount of 10p per litre on fuel when they spend £60 or more on groceries at a Sainsbury’s supermarket or online. The latest deal runs from Thursday August 22 and Tuesday August 27, and follows identical offers between ...
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NewsSewell on the go buys the six sites that it rented in £10m deal
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go now owns all of its 13 sites after buying six sites it was renting in a £10m deal. The East Yorkshire-based company bought the sites from Rix Petroleum and said the deal paved the way for continued growth across the region. The acquisitions ...
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NewsProlific drive-off pair convicted of stealing £2,000 of fuel
Two women convicted of stealing approximately £2,000 worth of fuel from petrol stations around Salisbury, Wiltshire, have been sentenced. Caroline Coker, 42, of Odstock Road, Salisbury, was given an 18-month community order, 19 days of rehabilitation and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work, as well as a ...
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NewsThreat to deliveries over tanker drivers’ union dispute
Tanker drivers who supply Euro Garages and Esso sites are threatening to take industrial action in a dispute with their employer Hoyer Petrolog UK. Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, is warning that petrol shortages and delays to flights are likely if the tanker drivers based in Ellesmere Port ...
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NewsBurglars break in to forecourt shop in Nottinghamshire
Officers from Nottinghamshire Police are appealing for information following a break-in at a petrol station. The burglars arrived in a vehicle which was driven onto the forecourt of the Jet petrol station on Loughborough Road, Bunny, at 1.33am on Friday August 16. A number of people then forced entry and ...
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NewsPRA boss hails breakthrough in meeting with police chief
The PRA believes that tackling crime on forecourts is now “back on the police’s agenda” following a meeting with a chief constable who previously called for petrol stations to install pay at pump equipment.PRA chairman Brian Madderson met with Simon Cole of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), who heads ...
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NewsGraham Peacock switches sites to Jet supply in deal with Phillips 66
Graham Peacock’s company TG Convenience Stores has switched two of its sites to the Jet brand.Through a number of acquisitions Peacock, who jointly founded and built MRH into the largest independent forecourt operator in the UK before it was taken over by MFG, has now grown TG Convenience Stores into ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie applies to build Scottish service area
Top 50 Indie Grove Garages has applied for planning permission for a trunk road service station in Scotland, on a site where a previous application by the company was refused in September last year. The new application is for a Shell petrol filling station, a 190sq m Londis convenience store ...
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NewsBP Chargemaster powers up first 150kW chargers on retail site
BP Chargemaster has powered up its first 150kW ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) chargers on a BP retail site, the first in a planned network of 400 ultra-fast chargers across the UK.Two of the chargers have been installed at BP’s retail site at Cranford near Heathrow airport, west of London, and ...
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NewsDeveloper seeks to introduce fuel to A1 roadside services site
Plans for redevelopment of roadside services on the southbound A1 between Grantham and Stamford have been submitted to South Kesteven District Council. The scheme would provide a new petrol filling station (PFS) with a convenience store and an option for a franchise within in it such as Greggs or Costa. ...
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NewsGovernment increases funding for on-street EV charging
Additional funding of £2.5m to provide more charge points for electric vehicles (EVs) has been announced by the transport secretary Grant Shapps. The funding will support the on-street residential chargepoint scheme, launched in 2017, which helps people access charging infrastructure near their homes when they don’t have off-street parking. It ...
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NewsUsed car market declined in second quarter of the year
The UK’s used car market declined by 2.8% in the second quarter of the year, according to the figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).A total of 2,034,236 transactions took place, resulting in a shortfall of fewer than 60,000 units compared with the same period last ...
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NewsRight wing group calls for end to fuel duty freeze
A ring-wing think tank has called on the government to end the freeze on the value of fuel duty and apply a surcharge on fuel duty for diesel fuel, to help improve air quality. The call came from Bright Blue, and was contained in its new report, Emission impossible? Air ...
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NewsACS supports call for business rates reform
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has signed a letter alongside 50 retail organisations calling for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid to reform the business rates system. In the letter, retail organisations including the British Retail Consortium and Booksellers Association have called on the government to put business ...
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NewsAcquisition by Penny Petroleum takes its site total to 53
Top 50 Indie Penny Petroleum has bought Pensby Service Station in the village of Heswall, in the Wirral, through the specialist business property adviser Christie & Co. Pensby Service Station comprises a Texaco-branded forecourt, Spar convenience store, and hand car wash situated on a busy main road within the ...
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NewsConvenience channel will grow to £48.2bn by 2024 predicts IGD
New forecasts from the industry thinktank IGD reveal that the UK convenience market is set to grow by £6.9bn in the next five years, to reach £48.2bn by 2024. The channel will benefit from lots of new store openings over the period, helping to fuel a compound annual growth rate ...