All Petrol articles – Page 16
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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 ...
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NewsAsda takes unleaded petrol down to 107.7ppl
The big four supermarket groups marked New Year’s Day by cutting a further 2ppl from their petrol and diesel prices, with prices now having fallen by 19ppl and 15ppl respectively in less than four months. Asda announced its new national price cap was 107.7ppl on unleaded petrol and 114.7ppl on ...
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NewsAA dismisses prospect of petrol below £1 per litre
The AA has dismissed suggestions by rival motoring organisation the RAC that petrol could fall below £1 a litre in the New Year, but said the crash in fuel prices over the past month is the third largest it has recorded. In its latest monthly fuel report the AA said: ...
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NewsRAC predicts unleaded petrol will fall below £1 a litre
The RAC is predicting petrol could be selling for less than £1 a litre for several months at the start of 2015, due to the plummeting price of oil – a pump price last seen in late May 2009. The price of Brent crude has fallen below $60 a barrel ...
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Petrol prices plummet to four-year low
The lowest unleaded petrol prices looked likely to fall below 120ppl as Forecourt Trader went to press, with the prices having fallen 6ppl in a month after the major multiples launched another round of price cuts at the beginning of last week. Tesco beat its competitors to the punch by ...
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Asda takes unleaded petrol below 120ppl
Minimum supermarket prices for unleaded petrol have fallen below 120ppl, as predicted in the November issue of Forecourt Trader, after the big three all cut 1ppl off their fuel prices. Today Asda introduced its fifth price cut in less than six weeks, taking 1ppl off both unleaded petrol and diesel, ...
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Knife man attempts to rob petrol station in Dundee
Police Scotland is appealing for information after a man walked into a petrol station in Dundee, threatened a member of staff with a knife and demanded money. He made off empty handed. The incident happened at the Shell Petrol Station at Forfar Road about 9.50pm on Tuesday 7 October. The ...
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NewsPenny Petroleum additions strengthen Jet in North East
Jet has increased its presence in north-east England through new contracts with Penny Petroleum that have seen seven new sites join the network and a further three sites sign retie deals. Penny Petroleum has a portfolio of 25 retail sites, the majority of which are located in the north of ...