All Forecourt Trader articles in March 2016 – Page 8
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Man’s finger severed in racist attack
Police in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, are appealing for information after a man was seriously assaulted at a petrol station. At just before 6am on Saturday 27 February police received a report that a 31-year-old Asian man had been attacked at the BP service station on Herringthorpe Valley Road in the ...
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Court rules Morrisons liable for attack by forecourt worker
The Supreme Court has ruled that Morrisons supermarket is liable for the actions of one of its petrol station workers who attacked a customer. According to court documents, Amjid Khan was working at the Morrisons petrol station at Small Heath, Birmingham, in 2008 when he punched and kicked Ahmed Mohamud. ...
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Murder investigation after Tesco car wash man’s death
A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a man who ran a Tesco car wash was discovered in a fire-damaged car in Essex. Police were called just before 5pm on Saturday, February 27 after the 30-year-old man’s body was found in a grey Audi A4 which was ...
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ACS slams Osborne over Sunday trading claim
Claims made by Chancellor George Osborne about the link between online shopping and Sunday trading have been shown to be wrong and misguided by new polling, according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS). Polling of more than 2,000 consumers in January 2016 showed that two thirds of consumers had ...
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NewsChartman acquires Somerset service station
Top 50 Indie Chartman Retail has acquired Lydford Service Station on the A37 Lydford-On-Fosse, Somerset, from by Devizes Marina Village Limited for an undisclosed sum. West Country-based Chartman is ranked 40th in the Top 50 and the new acquisition takes it to a total of nine forecourts operated in Somerset, ...
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AA urges chancellor not to raise fuel duty
The AA has written to the Chancellor urging him to resist hitting motorists and businesses in the forthcoming 2016 budget on March 16. AA president Edmund King said he was concerned that the Chancellor might consider road fuel duty hikes as a ‘quick win’ to increase revenues. King said that ...
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Electric cars to cost less to run than petrol by 2025
A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that continuing reductions in battery prices will bring the total cost of ownership of electric vehicles (EVs) below that for conventional-fuel vehicles by 2025, even with low oil prices. The study forecasts that global sales of electric vehicles will hit 41 ...