All Forecourt Trader articles in May 2014
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Blaze shuts M3 services at Fleet
The motorway service station on the M3 at Fleet, Hampshire, had to be closed during the evening rush-hour on Wednesday April 30 after a lorry that was transporting 16 tonnes of straw caught fire. Hampshire Fire Service was called to the blaze on the exit slip road on the westbound ...
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Detectives seek service station burglars
Detectives in the New Forest, Hampshire, are appealing for information after a burglary at a petrol station on the A35. A dark coloured Vauxhall Corsa style car entered the Hinton Service Station forecourt from the Dorset direction of the A35 at 3.48am on Friday, April 25. Three people got out ...
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NewsCarsley Group unveils site with "stopping power"
Top 50 Indie Carsley Group is celebrating the completion of one of the most striking filling stations in the UK, a year and a half after it was first mooted. In September 2012 Mark Carsley, managing director of the Carsley Group, met the team who were going to design and ...
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NewsPRA supports MP’s campaign against plain packaging
The Petrol Retailers Association has joined Priti Patel MP in her campaign to oppose the UK Government’s plans for plain packaging for tobacco products, a policy which it claims is already opposed by more than 70% of retailers. Priti Patel has warned that introducing plain packaging will have a range ...
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Cole & Day set the Pace in Somersham
A filling station in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, is on track to increase fuel sales by 35% after switching its fuel supplier from Power to Pace. Cole & Day, which is owned by William and Sandra Day, expects to achieve annual fuel sales of more than 900,000 litres in its first year ...
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PRA to hold forum in Bury St Edmunds
The PRA’s next regional forum is being held in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, at the Quality Hotel Bury St Edmunds, Symonds Road, on Wednesday May 21. Coffee will be available from 10am, and a free buffet lunch will be provided. Topics on the agenda include: Introduction by Richard Chadderton, ...
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NewsMurco reassures retailers over supplies
Murco has moved to reassure its retailer customers after revealing earlier this week that it has stopped buying crude oil to be processed at its Milford Haven refinery in South Wales. In a statement on Monday, Murco said: “As we have said, we are actively engaged with certain third parties ...
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Alcohol smugglers jailed for evading £1.8m in duty
Two alcohol smugglers from Northern Ireland have been jailed for evading £1.8m in duty. Kieran Hughes, 55, from Portadown, was sentenced to six years and William Canning, 44, from Ballykelly, was sentenced to 27 months in prison. They faked paperwork using details of legitimate companies, claiming to import vinegar, fruit ...
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New M5 services open
The new services on the M5 northbound between junctions 11a and 12at Brookthorpe in Gloucestershire have opened today. The £40m development is a partnership between a local charity, the Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, and Westmorland Limited, which runs the Tebay service station on the M6 in Cumbria, and is the only ...
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Forecourt staff praised for action over fire
Forecourt staff have been praised after a car fire at the petrol station at the Trago Mills shopping centre at Newton Abbot in Devon. Newton Abbot fire crew manager Rob Barr said that the staff managed to push the vehicle away from the petrol pumps when they spotted the engine ...
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NewsPetrol sales hit all-time low
Sales of petrol plummeted to the lowest level on record in March despite an average price below 130ppl. Latest petrol sales figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) show that UK drivers this March bought 1.367 billion litres compared to 1.375 billion litres last March, which was the previous lowest ...
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Fuel gives marginal boost to Sainsbury’s results
Sainsbury’s fuel business has given a marginal boost to the group’s overall results which were published today. In its annual results for the 52 weeks to March 15 it reported group sales of £26.36bn, up 2.8% on the previous year. However, when fuel sales were stripped out from the figures, ...
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Volkswagen Group Leasing offers fleet fuel card
Volkswagen Group Leasing, the leasing arm of Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd, is the first UK contract hire company to offer the recently launched Fuel+ Card. Working with The Miles Consultancy, a mileage audit and fuel expense management specialist, Volkswagen Group Leasing’s Fuel+ Card is accepted at 99% of the ...
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Euro Garages chooses Micros EPOS system
Top 50 Indie Euro Garages is upgrading its estate to the Micros Iridium 2 Prism 2 EPOS system supplied by Micros Systems. Micros will also be the sole supplier to any new Euro Garages forecourt sites, including the 48 new Esso sites which it agreed to buy earlier this year. ...
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Creating a legacy (Pt 2)
After a rather flood-ridden start, progress has continued steadily at the new leading-edge forecourt being built by the Chartman Group, the Exeter-based Top 50 Indie, which has nine sites. The company received planning approval for the redevelopment of its iconic Winning Post location near Exeter last year, and all was ...
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Coco5 comes to UK
A new rehydration drink powered by coconut water and naturally containing all five essential electrolytes has been introduced to the UK market. Called Coco5, it has been developed by a team of top American professional sports medicine and nutrition experts and is said to be one of the fastest-growing coconut ...
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Service Centre: Jac Roper on protection money; bank advice; and a driverless car
Buried letters will cost you money Ever heard of PCI DSS? Depressingly I have quite a few times now. You may have seen it buried between some lines you got on a statement from the bank or credit card company. Between the two helplines I run for Forecourt Trader and ...
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Murco reassures its retailers after set-back over refinery
Murco has revealed that it has stopped buying crude oil to be processed at its Milford Haven refinery in South Wales, as talks about its future continue, but insists this will have no impact on its retail and wholesale operation. In a statement Murco said: "We are actively engaged with ...
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Esso forced to shut pipeline for repairs after diesel theft
Esso had to shut down a major pipeline distributing fuel from its Fawley refinery after thieves bored into it and stole a large volume of diesel. The Midline pipeline was shut down after a tapping device was found inserted into it on April 18 and it resumed operation a week ...