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MFG owners buy 54 petrol filling stations
The owners of Motor Fuels Group (MFG) have teamed up again to buy a portfolio of 54 petrol filling stations in a deal worth more than £50m. Aberdeen-based oil industry veteran Alasdair Locke and private equity firm Patron Capital Partners formed a joint venture, Scorpion PFS 1 Ltd, to buy ...
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Cigarettes stolen from Norfolk petrol station
Cigarettes were stolen from a Norfolk petrol filling station yesterday after thieves smashed through a glass door. The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning, shortly before 3.30am, when an unknown number of people broke into the Jet Garage on Norwich Road, Wroxham. Police said it was believed ...
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Petrol tanker ruptured in crash in Wales
A Texaco petrol tanker has been ruptured in a collision with a crane in Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales. Dyfed-Powys Police said no-one has been hurt in the crash on the A4076 at Haverfordwest on Friday morning but a substantial amount of fuel had spilled into the road. Fire crews from ...
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Rates revamp for Northern Ireland petrol stations
Forecourt businesses in Northern Ireland are being urged to submit forms needed for the revaluation of business rates in the province. Land & Property Services (LPS) is reminding business ratepayers in Northern Ireland that time is running out to submit a Form of Return as part of the non-domestic revaluation ...
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Man charged with robbery at petrol station
A 29-year-old man has been charged in connection with a robbery at a petrol station in Kent. Daryl Cook, of Simons Avenue, Chatham, was charged with robbery, being in possession of a bladed article and attempted robbery. Police were called at 9.30pm on July 6 to reports of a robbery ...
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Police release CCTV after petrol station arson attack
Police in Hereford yesterday released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to about an arson attack at a petrol station. A storage shed at the side of the Apple Green on Ross Road was set alight shortly after 3am on Sunday, 7 July. The shed ...
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Two raids on East Midlands petrol stations
Thieves have struck in two incidents at petrol stations in the East Midlands. In the first raid two masked men stole cash and cigarettes from the Jet Service Station in Leicester Road, Shepshed, at about 10.30pm on July 11. Detective Constable Joanna Brown said officers wanted to trace a white ...
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Criminal gangs defrauding petrol stations
Criminal gangs are systematically defrauding petrol stations out of thousands of pounds worth of fuel using bogus fuel cards, according to national press reports. They report a warning by the City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) that criminal gangs are taking advantage of the weaker security on ...
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New head of petrol at PRA
The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) has announced the appointment of Richard Chadderton as the new head of petrol for the PRA. He commenced the role on Monday 8 July and will be based at the London head office in Great Portland Street. Chadderton has more than 30 years experience ...
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Asda withdraws petrol station plan
Asda has withdrawn plans to build a new petrol station at its Highbridge store in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset after objections over safety issues.
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Costco voted North America’s favourite petrol station
Costco is where North American consumers prefer to fill their fuel tanks, according to a study by US customer intelligence company Market Force Information. Traditional petrol stations lost out to wholesale clubs, with Sam’s Club coming in second among more than 7,600 consumers across the US and Canada. QuikTrip, Wawa ...
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Police publicise crime campaign on petrol pumps
Police in Staffordshire are using messages on supermarket petrol pumps to publicise a campaign targeting uninsured drivers. ‘Cars Behind Bars’ is a campaign instigated by Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis and has resulted in about 200 uninsured vehicles being seized, some to be scrapped, in the five weeks ...
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Fuel pump crash closes petrol station
A Co-operative Food petrol station near Bournemouth has had to be evacuated after a car drove into one of the fuel pumps. Fire crews were called to the petrol station at 6.30 this morning after a 26-year-old female driver hit the pumps at the service station, on the westbound A31 ...
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Supermarkets force petrol station out of business
A petrol station in York was forced to close by competition from supermarkets, documents related to a planning application have revealed. The former Shell-branded Mill Lane Filling Station and Spar shop closed on November 1, 2012, after trading for more than 40 years, according to a planning application lodged with ...
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Man charged with petrol station robbery
A man has been charged following a robbery at the Shell petrol station in South Normanton, Derbyshire. Duane Langford, 34, from Sutton-in-Ashfield, has been charged with robbery and has appeared before magistrates in Chesterfield yesterday. He has been remanded in custody to appear at Derby Crown Court on Tuesday, June ...
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Diesel stolen from Kent petrol stations
Thousands of litres of diesel have been stolen from two petrol station in Kent in a rash of thefts which have only taken place on Friday nights. The first occurred on the night of April 5 between 7pm and 7am the next morning, when 2,200 litres of diesel was taken ...
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Petrol price fall has ground to a halt, says AA
A fall in the UK’s average petrol price has ground to a halt just 2p below the year’s high of 140p a litre in early March, according to the AA. This is despite a 3p-4p fall in wholesale costs, with VAT, from late February into the middle of March. Although ...
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Sainsbury’s sparks petrol price war
Sainsbury’s has sparked a supermarket price war on fuel after an announcement it was cutting its prices was rapidly followed by Asda and Tesco also announcing cuts. It began yesterday when Richard Crampton, Sainsbury’s head of fuel, said that from today Sainsbury’s petrol prices will drop by 4p per litre ...
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Shop Doctor: Morrisons Petrol Station, West Bay Rd, Bridport, Dorset
GENERAL APPEARANCE: Just south of Bridport, on the B3157, is a Morrisons. But my stealth check target was the supermarket’s petrol station and shop. FORECOURT: The petrol station and its shop are right by the entrance to the superstore. The large forecourt looked functional and the approach to the ...
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Report highlights supermarket growth in petrol
The massive impact supermarkets have had on the petrol market in the decade between 2001 and 2011 is highlighted by a new report, The Way We Pay, published by the Payments Council. It says the amount spent on petrol in supermarkets almost tripled in the decade to 2011, and the ...