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NewsSainsbury’s and Asda confirm fuel price strategy commitments to CMA
Sainsbury’s has confirmed that it will cap its fuel gross profit margin to no more than 3.5 pence per litre for five years, while Asda will guarantee its existing fuel pricing strategy, in a strong rebuttal to the findings of the Competiton and Markets Authority (CMA). Last month the CMA ...
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NewsEG Group awards five-year global contract to Dover Fuelling Solutions
Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) has been awarded a five-year global contract with EG Group, which operates as Euro Garages in the UK, for the provision of its ClearView and Fairbanks wetstock management services. Sites within the EG Group global network – including those in Germany, the USA, Australia, France, the ...
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NewsJet welcomes new retail business manager
Phillips 66 has appointed Oliver Müller as retail business manager to drive further growth in the company’s UK Jet-branded dealer network. Oliver joins from the company’s Hamburg office in Germany and takes over from Sönke Voges who, following an extended handover period, will return to Germany to take the position ...
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NewsLincolnshire Co-op reopens site after £1.6m redevelopment
Lincolnshire Co-op has reopened Whaplode Food Store and Filling Station after a £1.6m redevelopment. The site on Main Road has been given a major overhaul including the creation of a new, larger food outlet to replace the former kiosk on the site.It has doubled the retail area, creating room for ...
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NewsFastned to add five further rapid charger hubs in North East
Fastned, which is building a European network of fast charging stations for electric vehicles, has won a second tender in the UK led by the North East Joined Transport Committee. Fastned will build and operate five fast charging stations (hubs) for electric vehicles across the region. Each station will ...
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NewsMoto installs additional Changing Places toilets
Moto has opened two more Changing Places assisted accessible toilets, at its Medway and Leigh Delamere services, which takes the total of Changing Places at the UK motorway services network to more than 30. The facilities provide people with disabilities who need help to toilet, and their carers, the appropriate ...
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NewsChancellor announces review of National Minimum Wage
Chancellor Philip Hammond has confirmed that the Government will launch a review into the future of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage after 2020. In his Spring Statement on Wednesday March 13, he said the review of the international evidence relating to the employment and productivity effects of ...
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NewsRobbers threaten female forecourt assistant with machete
Detectives from Wiltshire Police are investigating a knife-point robbery at a petrol station in Swindon on Tuesday March 12. At approximately 10.20pm, two men entered the Applegreen petrol station on Great Western Way and demanded money from the cashier. One of the men was carrying what is believed ...
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NewsBurglar steals cash from Hampshire service station
A burglar broke into a Hampshire petrol station and filled a bag for life with cash before fleeing, according to police. The break-in was at Hinton Service Station, on the A35 Lyndhurst Road at around 2.45am on Monday March 11, when the burglar entered the Best One shop and stole ...
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NewsCouncil tightens up controls for hand car washes
Cheshire East Council is to draw up clearer rules for dealing with planning applications for hand car washes – following concerns around a number of operation issues. The local authority will work with partners, including the Environment Agency and water utilities companies, to discuss a wide range of concerns that ...
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NewsPolice say fire that has closed forecourt was deliberate
A fire which has forced the temporary closure of an unmanned 24-hour Gulf filling station near Loch Lomond in Scotland was started deliberately, say police. Luss Filling station was developed by Certas Energy and Tokheim Solutions for the Luss Estates Company, and opened in July 2016 offering Gulf diesel and ...
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NewsKnife-wielding robber escapes with £200 in cash
Detectives from Wiltshire Police are appealing for witnesses after a knifepoint robbery at a shop in Westbury on Monday March 11. Police were alerted at about 10.30pm to a report of a robbery at the Esso Service Station in Warminster Road, Westbury. A man had entered the store, threatened a ...
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NewsTop 50 Indie relaunches Tonbridge site after KDRB
Top 50 Indie George Hammond plc has relaunched its Three Elm site at Tonbridge, in Kent, following a full demolition and rebuild, which has included moving the shop from Spar to Southern Co-op’s Welcome franchise. The former site, which closed in August last year, was a four-square forecourt with one ...
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NewsSuffolk Police investigating after failed cash machine heist
Suffolk Police are appealing for witnesses following the attempted theft of a cash machine in Great Barton. The incident occurred at around 1.30am on Saturday 9 March at the Esso service station in The Street. A car pulled up outside and two people wearing high-visibility jackets got out and hooked-up ...
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NewsPRA arranges Business Breakout in Belfast
The PRA has arranged a Business Breakout in Belfast on Thursday March 28.The event will be at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, 117 Milltown Road, Shaws Bridge, with registration from 10am.Presentations will include: PRA – market update; PRA – AFID fuel labelling; Edge Petrol – fuel margins under the microscope; Grip ...
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NewsNorthern Irish police set up team to tackle ATM crime
A team of detectives has been set up to tackle ATM thefts in Northern Ireland after another attack on a forecourt over the weekend. The Organised Crime Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland has set up the team and is appealing to the public for information. Detective inspector ...
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NewsCCTV footage shows staff member hit and run on forecourt
Dramatic CCTV footage of a forecourt staff member being knocked down by a driver who failed to pay for their fuel has been released in a bid to identify her attacker. In footage released by the Texaco garage in Leicester Road, Lutterworth, a man can be seen filling an Audi ...
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BOSS figures for Q4 2018 show forecourt crime fell
Incidents of forecourt crime recorded by BOSS (British Oil Security Syndicate) fell by 4% during the final quarter of 2018, according to the latest results from its Forecourt Crime Index. The index is based on no means of payment incident reports that are made as part of its Payment Watch ...
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Essar Oil (UK) is principal sponsor of Forecourt Awards
Essar Oil (UK) has been revealed as the new principal sponsor of this year’s Forecourt Trader Awards the industry’s most prestigious awards programme. The long-established competition is the showcase for the petrol retailing industry recognising and rewarding those businesses at the leading edge of their profession. The Forecourt Trader Awards ...
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Phoenix Service Station rises with new BP branding
A newly rebuilt forecourt in the centre of Bradford has been added to the BP dealer network. Phoenix Service Station, which is run by brothers Ismail, Nazir and Mohammad Bismillah, has been converted from Gulf branding, and has undergone a full knockdown and rebuild in partnership with forecourt solutions company, ...