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NewsDisappointment at Chancellor’s plan to hike living wage rate
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has urged the Government to allow the Low Pay Commission to set wage rates based on evidence rather than political pressure in response to an announcement from the Chancellor.In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Chancellor Sajid Javid announced plans to raise the ...
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NewsCo-op site in north Wales reopens after £1m overhaul
The Co-op has unveiled its new-look petrol filling station and food store at Old Colwyn in North Wales following a £1m overhaul of the site.The petrol filling station in Abergele Road, Old Colwyn, re-launched on Thursday September 26 following a three-month closure.Commencing in June, the works included replacement tanks, forecourt ...
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NewsMaxol wins planning permission for £6m motorway service area
Maxol Group has won planning permission for a £6m motorway service station in Newry, Northern Ireland. The company submitted a planning application in August 2017 for a motorway service area (MSA) on the Armagh Road outside the city. It said it would bring 80 jobs during the construction phase and ...
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NewsExplosives team called to service station after failed ATM attack
Explosives experts were scrambled to a service station in Lancashire to check out a device inserted into an ATM in a failed attempt to blow it up.The incident, at the Texaco Service Station on Burnley Road, Padiham, began at about 1am on Tuesday September 24.Thieves pulled up at the site ...
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NewsPRA arranges Business Breakout in Suffolk
The PRA has arranged a Business Breakout in Suffolk at The Millennium Grandstand, Rowley Mile Racecourse, Newmarket, on Thursday October 3.Coffee will be provided from 10am and there will be a free buffet lunch with opportunities to network.Presentations will include: PRA – latest market update; Allego – electric vehicle charging ...
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NewsCar hits forecourt employee in drive-off
A car has hit a member of staff on a petrol station forecourt in south Wales as thieves drove off without paying for fuel. The incident took place at around 11.10am on Monday 23 September at the petrol station on Blaina Road in Brynmawr. A member of staff approached a ...
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NewsMan charged with robbery at Morrisons petrol station
A man has been charged with robbery and having a knife after a petrol station in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, was raided. At around 10.20pm on Saturday 21 September, an employee at Morrisons petrol station, in Nottingham Road, called police to report that a man had gone into the shop with a ...
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NewsFormer petrol station owners jailed for fuel fraud
Five people, including the former owners of a Sussex petrol station, have been sentenced for distributing and selling an estimated 4.8 million litres of illicit fuel to motorists and haulage companies across the south east of England.Three were given jail sentences totalling more than 16 years.Brothers Dean Chapman, 43, from ...
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NewsEuro Garages starts work on £3.5m redevelopment of site
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages has commenced a £3.5m redevelopment of its Esso site at Scarborough Road Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The scheme, which is expected to last until 2020 is expected to create 10 new job roles in addition to the current jobs at the site. Tom Jeremiah, group ...
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NewsDfT expands funding to provide accessible facilities
A new round of funding to improve accessibility at service areas has been launched as the government revealed the successful applicants from the first round.The Department for Transport (DfT), in partnership with Muscular Dystrophy UK (MDUK), announced that 22 motorway service areas had been successful in their bid for a ...
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NewsACS takes retail crime message to Labour Party conference
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called for more to be done to tackle the root causes of retail crime at a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.The event, Safer Communities, Safer Shopworkers, was hosted by the Co-operative Party and aimed to find ways to tackle ...
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NewsApplegreen expects greater benefits from Welcome Break
Applegreen has reported the integration of Welcome Break into the business is going well and could provide greater savings than originally expected, as it published its results for the six months ended 30 June 2019.It said: “The integration of Welcome Break, which was acquired in October 2018, is going well ...
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NewsGulf Retail appoints new regional manager for South East
Gulf Retail has appointed Myra McPartlin as regional manager, South East, replacing Steve White who has retired.Myra was previously area business manager in Scotland and more recently in the North West, having joined Certas Energy in 2016 from its parent company DCC where, as part of the company’s graduate programme, ...
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NewsPRA organises Forecourt Roadshow in Belfast
The PRA will be presenting a Forecourt Roadshow in Belfast on Wednesday October 16, which will be supported by 30 major exhibitors.The event will be at The Maldron Hotel, at Belfast International Airport, running from 12 noon to 7pm and includes a buffet lunch at 1pm and a champagne tea ...
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NewsConvenience store retailers fear Brexit-led food shortages
A quarter of convenience store retailers are concerned about Brexit-led food shortages, according to a survey by shopper insight agency HIM.It found that out of a sample of 250 independent and symbol retailers, 27% were concerned about food shortages if the UK leaves the EU.Eight per cent of retailers have ...
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NewsJet to roll out new image following successful 12-site pilot
Jet is to start rolling out its new forecourt design across the network following a successful 12-site pilot, which received a positive response from consumers and dealers alike, according to Oliver Müller, Jet’s retail business manager. “Over the past 12 months, we’ve been working on an initiative to refresh our ...
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NewsOverhauled forecourt part of Co-op’s £2.75m investment in North Wales
A newly refuburbished filling station is part of a combined investment of £2.75 million by the Co-op in two new-look food stores being relaunched in North Wales next week. Its petrol filling station in Abergele Road, Old Colwyn, re-launches next Thursday, September 26, following a three-month, £1m, overhaul of the ...
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NewsForecourt crime index up by 21%, reveals BOSS
The BOSS Forecourt Crime Index covering the second quarter of 2019 has risen by 21%, according to the latest figures revealed by the British Oil Security Syndicate. The increase is the largest upward change recorded since BOSS established the BOSS Forecourt Crime Index in 2015. During Q2 2019 the BOSS ...
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NewsEuro 6 engines could boost diesel demand
Diesel cars could be set for a comeback thanks to cleaner Euro 6 standard cars now coming off lease and entering auction halls. That’s the view of Alex Wright, managing director of Shoreham Vehicle Auctions (SVA), who believes that despite the controversy surrounding diesels, the appearance of Euro 6 standard ...
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NewsRat in kitchen forces forecourt closure
Applegreen has been forced to close its Cherry Orchard site in Dublin after a video showing a rat in the kitchen at the forecourt was circulated on social media. The 23-second film shows a large brown rat emerging from a packaged loaf of bread, climbing across shelving then going behind ...