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NewsPolice seeking armed trio after raid on Leeds petrol station
West Yorkshire Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a petrol station in Leeds. Shortly before 6.20am on Tuesday July 18 three men, who were wearing balaclavas and were armed with knives, entered Wharrels Service Station, in Lowtown, Pudsey.They threatened staff and forced them into a back ...
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Tesco fined £8m for ’reckless’ petrol leak
Tesco has been fined £8m after a massive leak of petrol from one of its service stations. The Environment Agency said 23,500 litres of petrol escaped from a tank over a 29-hour period in Haslingden, east Lancashire, in 2014.The firm’s "recklessness" resulted in homes being evacuated, residents suffering sickness, and ...
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NewsPolice seek three armed men who robbed petrol station
Three armed men who robbed a petrol station in West Lothian, Scotland, are being sought by police. They held up the Glendevon Service Station in Winchburgh on the B9080 and threatened staff with weapons at about 10:45pm on Thursday July 6.They stole cash from the till before leaving the shop ...
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NewsPetrol stations worst in proof of age tests
Petrol stations were the least likely retail category to ask for proof of age in a test purchasing operation for alcohol and tobacco. Retailers sold alcohol to nearly one in six teenage mystery shoppers in 2016 without asking for proof of age, according to new data from retail age check ...
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NewsTesco fined £8m for petrol leak from service station
Tesco has been fined £8m after a massive leak of petrol from one of its service stations. The Environment Agency said 23,500 litres of petrol escaped from a tank over a 29-hour period in Haslingden, east Lancashire, in 2014. The firm’s “recklessness” resulted in homes being evacuated, residents suffering sickness, ...
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NewsRaiders steal cash machine from Scottish petrol station
Police Scotland have launched an appeal for witnesses after raiders stole a cash machine from a Borders petrol station. The suspects forced entry to Harrison’s Petrol Station on Edinburgh Road in Peebles, stole the free-standing ATM with a four-figure sum of cash in it, and made off in a red ...
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Petrol use falls to lowest ever level on record
UK petrol consumption in January fell to its lowest level ever, government figures show. Statistics released by HM Revenue and Customs show that, in January, UK drivers got through 1,351m litres of petrol. That is marginally down on the previous January’s consumption of 1,365m litres, and 12.7% less than five ...
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NewsTesco cuts 2ppl from petrol and diesel prices
Tesco stole a march on its major supermarket rivals this morning by announcing it is to cut the cost of petrol and diesel by 2ppl at all of its petrol stations this afternoon. If the usual pattern is followed Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s will announce similar fuel price cuts within ...
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NewsPetrol consumption slumps to a record low
UK petrol consumption in January fell to its lowest level on record, new government figures show. Figures released by HM Revenue and Customs show that, in January, UK drivers got through 1.351 billion litres of petrol. That is 1% down on the previous January’s consumption and 12.7% less than five ...
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Knife man robs Tesco petrol station
Hampshire Police are appealing for information following a robbery at a service station in Dibden. Between 7.30pm and 7.50pm on Saturday, February 25, a man carrying a knife entered the Tesco petrol station on Sizer Way and demanded cash from the till operator. The cashier opened the till and gave ...
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NewsGreenergy extends supply deal with Penny Petroleum
Greenergy has signed agreements to supply a further three sites owned by Top 50 Indie Penny Petroleum, taking the number of Penny Petroleum sites supplied by Greenergy to seven. All of these sites are Esso-branded. Two of the sites, at Sadberge on the A66 between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees and in ...
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Money Talk: Petrol versus pub
How’s trading been so far this year for you? While it’s too early for any figures, conversations with retailers in both the petrol and hospitality sectors (regular readers will know that at EKW we’ve had a foot in both camps for many years), suggest that the recent post-Christmas ’quiet period’ ...
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Petrol Sign in new five-year agreement with Esso Europe
Petrol Sign, a division of MS International plc, has signed a five-year supply agreement with Esso Europe.The agreement will see Petrol Sign supply Esso signage materials to the UK, Benelux, Norway, Germany, France, Cyprus and Italy.Since it was incorporated into MS International plc in June 2015, the Petrol Sign UK ...
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NewsPetrol Sign signs five-year deal with Esso Europe
Petrol Sign, a division of MS International plc, has signed a five-year supply agreement with Esso Europe. The agreement will see Petrol Sign supply Esso signage materials to the UK, Benelux, Norway, Germany, France, Cyprus and Italy. Since it was incorporated into MS International plc in June 2015, the Petrol ...
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Worker steals £450,000 from Asda petrol kiosks
An Asda worker has been jailed after she stole more than £450,000 from the company’s petrol kiosks over a four-year period. Wendy Clements, who worked in the cash office of the South Bank supermarket in Middlesbrough, discovered that the electronic records on the tills were not linked to the “smart ...
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Rontec extends Hoyer Petrolog contract to 2021
Hoyer Petrolog has announced that it has extended its agreement with Top 50 Indie Rontec to supply more than 200 of the company’s forecourts across the UK through to September 2021. Allan Davison, operations director for Hoyer Petrolog UK, said: "Rontec has been a major customer of Hoyer Petrolog since ...
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NewsMRH buys Spring Petroleum
MRH, number one in Forecourt Trader’s Top 50 Indies, has bought Spring Petroleum which was ranked 11th in the list. In the 2016 Top 50 Indies MRH had 452 sites and the acquisition of Spring Petroleum, which included Mercury Forecourts, adds a further 27. MRH company secretary David Hathaway confirmed ...
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Four men rob Newport petrol station
Gwent Police are appealing for information following a robbery that happened at the BP Petrol Station on Malpas Road in Newport, at 4.10am on October 26. They are looking for four men in connection with this incident, and have appealed for information to locate 18-year-old Thomas Hunt from Pontypool. The ...
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Yuk! Petrol pumps are more germy than a loo seat
On average, fuel pumps have more than 11,000 times more bacteria on them than a household toilet seat. That’s the shock finding from bus-travel booking website busbud.com, which collected bacteria samples from three forecourts and three charging stations in the US. A previous study conducted by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation ...
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Demand for petrol stations in South West rising
Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has revealed an increase in demand in the South West forecourt sector for the first half of 2016, with this demand looking set to continue into the second half of the year. When compared with the same period in 2015, Christie & Co ...