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Petrol volumes fall despite 14ppl price drop in a year
UK petrol consumption has fallen compared with a year ago, despite it being 14ppl cheaper. UK fuel consumption figures released by HM Revenue and Customs show that petrol consumption flat-lined at around 1.475 billion litres a month from May to July. This is lower than last summer when petrol averaged ...
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Handbag designer sets up Selfridges petrol station
The car park of London department store Selfridge’s will be transformed into a petrol station by handbag designer Anya Hindmarch, according to fashion website WMD.com. The installation, which will open on September 11, will take its cues from Hindmarch’s autumn collection, which plays with the graphic signage and reflective surfaces ...
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Supermarket price cuts reduce diesel petrol gap
Three of the big four supermarkets have reduced their fuel prices by identical amounts this morning (Thursday, August 27), with cuts that further narrow the gap between diesel and unleaded petrol after petrol price cuts at the weekend. Morrisons was first to announce the cut of 2ppl on unleaded petrol ...
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Petrol sales down despite lower prices
UK petrol consumption has fallen compared with a year ago, despite it being 14ppl cheaper. UK fuel consumption figures released by HM Revenue and Customs show that petrol consumption flat-lined at around 1.475 billion litres a month from May to July. This is lower than last summer when ...
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NewsSupermarkets cut 2ppl off unleaded petrol
Unleaded petrol prices are being cut by 2ppl across supermarket forecourts, but the price of diesel, which has plummeted 9ppl in the past month, has remained unchanged. After Asda announced it was cutting unleaded petrol by 2ppl today (August 21), Tesco rapidly responded with a cut with effect from 1pm, ...
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Footballer charged over collision with petrol pump
A Premier League footballer crashed his car into a petrol pump on a Shell forecourt and hit a cyclist while over the drink-drive limit, it has been alleged. Everton midfielder Darron Gibson, who has played 25 times for the Republic of Ireland, was reportedly driving a black Nissan Skyline ...
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TV show seeking footage from petrol stations
One of the latest TV shows is looking for contributions from fuel retailers. Caught on Camera: Britain Sees Red is a light-hearted show about situations caught on camera in which people lose their cool. Leticia Meruvia, who works on the show, said: “There are a variety of cases in which ...
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NewsSainsbury’s voted UK’s favourite petrol retailer
Sainsbury’s has become the UK’s preferred petrol retailer with 52% of those surveyed choosing it for its exceptional service and experience, according to an independent study by consumer intelligence firm, Market Force Information. A survey of 5,900 consumers in June 2015 asked participants to evaluate petrol-retailers on the experience delivered, ...
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NewsBotched robbery attempt at Poole petrol station
Detectives in Dorset have released a CCTV image of a suspect in a botched armed robbery at a petrol station in Poole, and are linking the incident to three other armed robberies in the town. They are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information to come forward. The first offence ...
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ATM stolen from Penny Petroleum site
Police are investigating the theft of an ATM from Penny Petroleum’s Gulf-branded petrol station on Hull Road in the Dunnington area of York. The incident occurred at around 2am on Monday 29 June when vehicles smashed into the wall and the ATM was taken. Police are appealing for information about ...
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Penny Petroleum planning further expansion
Northumberland-based Penny Petroleum is aiming to add 10 sites to its estate by the end of 2016, taking it to a total of 40, having already added 10 in the past year. David Penny, owner of the Forecourt Trader Top 50 Indie, revealed his plans to expand the company’s footprint ...
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NewsSainsbury’s opens 300th petrol station
Sainsbury’s has opened its 300th petrol station, at Livingston, in Scotland. The site, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is also the retailer’s third remote manned petrol station, offering six filling positions that use a pay-at-pump system. Sainsbury’s head of fuel, Avishai Moor, said: “We’re ...
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Car rams petrol pumps in Plymouth smash
A petrol pump has been destroyed by a car that crashed into it at the Texaco garage at Embankment Road in Plymouth, Devon. A black Ford Focus rammed into pumps three and four and hit another car at around 5.30pm on April 2. A fire appliance from Devon & Somerset ...
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Asda buys 15 petrol stations from Rontec
Asda has purchased 15 petrol stations from Top 50 Indie Rontec in the latest move towards its aim of opening 100 standalone petrol stations by the end of 2018.Asda intends to close and convert the 15 petrol stations over a number of weeks and will re-open the sites under the ...
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Police release video of petrol station robbery
Sussex Police have this week renewed their appeal for information about an armed robbery of a petrol station and released CCTV footage of the attack. The images show how the man, who was dressed in dark clothing, walked into The Flower Bowl garage in London Road, Petworth, at about 7.45pm ...
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Volvo developing cars that don’t need petrol stations
Volvo is developing self-filling cars that would never need to visit a petrol station, according to reports in the Daily Mail. When the tank is close to empty, the car would send a message via smartphone to a mobile fuel supplier to come and fill it up. The supplier would ...
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Indie cuts petrol to 99.7ppl
Road fuel prices have seen one of the greatest falls on record, and an independent retailer has cut his price to less than £1 a litre for unleaded petrol, but David Cameron and his team of ministers still claim the industry is not doing enough to pass on the benefit ...
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Petrol station assistant fights off robber
South Wales Police are investigating an attempted robbery at a petrol station in which a shop assistant fought off the attacker. The incident occurred at the Murco petrol station on Newport Road, Cardiff, in the early hours of Monday January 26. A man entered the shop and attempted to access ...
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Petrol dents Sainsbury’s results
Falling fuel prices have hit Sainsbury’s sales figures hard.In its third quarter trading statement for the 14 weeks to January 3, it said retail sales were down 2.5% compared with the same period a year ago; but when fuel was stripped out of the fall was 0.4%. Like-for-like sales were ...
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Autogas emphasises savings despite petrol price cuts
Drivers in the UK saved an estimated £66m on their fuel bills in 2014 by driving on autogas LPG, according to latest estimates from leading LPG supplier Autogas Ltd. Despite petrol prices falling in recent weeks, 150,000 drivers in the UK are making far greater savings by driving on the ...