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NewsCall for Scottish city centre ban on internal combustion engines
A ban on internal combustion engine vehicles in city centres by 2030 should be one of the Scottish government’s key policies, according to a coalition of 19 organisations.The ban is one of 12 measures the Climate Emergency Response Group wants the government to consider.The group is made up of 19 ...
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NewsPRA welcomes reports that fuel duty will be cut in Budget
The PRA’s long campaign for a cut in fuel duty looks as if it is about to succeed after reports that a reduction will be made in the Autumn Budget.“The PRA has welcomed hints carried by national media that the Treasury may be considering fuel duty cuts in the upcoming ...
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NewsRam raiders devastate shop on Sainsbury’s forecourt
A substantial part of a Sainsbury’s forecourt shop has been reduced to a pile of rubble by ram raiders using a tractor. The attack occurred at the Sainsbury’s petrol station at Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of Tuesday September 27. A tractor was abandoned at the scene ...
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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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NewsACS reminds retailers about pump labelling deadline
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is reminding retailers about the upcoming fuel labelling regulations which are coming into force next month.The new regulations legally require additional labelling to be introduced on all fuel dispensers and nozzles in all UK filling stations by 1 September and aim to help drivers ...
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NewsDetectives investigating armed robbery in Derbyshire
Detectives investigating a knifepoint robbery at a petrol station in Derbyshire have released images of a man they want to speak to. At around 10.45pm on Tuesday, August 20, a man entered the Jet petrol station in High Street, Brimington, armed with a knife. He approached a member of staff ...
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NewsMPs call for earlier ban on sales of conventional cars and vans
A Parliamentary committee of MPs has urged the government to bring forward its proposed ban on the sale of new conventional cars and vans to 2035 at the latest, and to outlaw hybrids from the same date.The Science and Technology Committee’s report into clean growth was highly critical of the ...
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NewsNew-to-industry scheme proposed in Dorset town
Forecourt developer Forelle Estates is planning a new-to-industry scheme in Gillingham, a town in North Dorset. The proposal comprises a Shell filling station, a store badged with its regular retail partner Budgens and jet wash. The car park would include car charging facilities. The development would be off the B3081 ...
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NewsSpar forecourt retailer introduces free water refill station
With plastic reduction a high priority everywhere, forecourt store owner Justin Taylor has become one of the first Spar retailers in the south west to introduce a free water refill station.Justin, who owns the Winford Ford fuel and Spar shop at Littleton Mills near Bristol, expects a gradual fall in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...