All Forecourt Trader articles in September 2013
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Suresite tops five million transactions a month
Suresite Card Services, which provides services to many forecourts, has exceeded five million transactions a month for the first time. Latest data shows it processed 5.4 million card transaction in one month representing more than £135m in value. Operations co-ordinator Gill Ashworth said that with the continued expansion plans and ...
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Costco wins consent for petrol station
Costco has won planning permission for its first UK petrol station. In July Forecourttrader.co.uk exclusively revealed that the US giant had applied for planning permission to build a petrol filling station (PFS) at its Liverpool site. Liverpool Council has now granted consent for the development, and Costco told an IGD ...
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Call for lower drink-drive limit
Brake, the road safety charity, is calling for urgent government action to tackle drink drive casualties, after new government statistics revealed a 17% increase in drink drive deaths in Britain. In 2012, 280 people were killed (one in six road deaths) and 1,210 were seriously injured in crashes involving someone ...
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NewsAsda takes on Sainsbury with new price cuts
Asda has cut its fuel prices for the second times in five days, after a substantial reduction by Sainsbury threatened to undercut it. On Monday Asda announced that it had set a new maximum national price on unleaded petrol and diesel of 131.7 pence per litre (ppl) and 137.7ppl respectively, ...
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MRH Hursts brand rolled out to 35 stores
MRH Retail’s new store brand Hursts has been rolled out to 35 stores since three pilot stores were successfully launched in March, managing director John Lynn has told Forecourt Trader, with 100 sites expected by Spring 2014. The stores feature a new external fascia, intended to visually demonstrate core store ...
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Forecourt pick-up points for online John Lewis shoppers
Petrol stations will be acting as collection points for online customers of John Lewis as part of a trial it is running. It is offering the service through CollectPlus, which enables customers to pick up online purchases at local convenience stores and petrol forecourts, and the trial will initially launch ...
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Forecourt explosion criminal jailed
A thief who took part in a raid where a petrol station was blown up causing £165,000 of damage has been jailed for three and a half years. The Texaco filling station at Weyhill in Hampshire was devastated after the gang pumped oxygen and propane gas into a cash machine ...
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Sainsbury’s cuts up to 6ppl off fuel
Sainsbury’s is the third of the big four supermarkets this week to announce it is cutting its fuel prices, and it will be introducing the deepest cuts. From Friday 27 September, it will be cutting the price of unleaded petrol by up to 6 pence per litre (ppl) and diesel ...
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PRA organises regeneration forum
The energy & business minister Michael Fallon will be the keynote speaker at a major forum organised by the PRA to find ways to halt the decline of the independent forecourt sector and stimulate growth. At the PRA Regeneration Forum leading industry specialists will give presentations on each of the ...
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Istobal extends supply deal with Morrisons
Car wash equipment manufacturer Istobal has announced that it has been awarded a three-year extension to its supply contract with Morrisons. This includes the installation during the rest of 2013 of 15 M’Start roll-over washes. Istobal managing director Steven Dunne said: “We have worked extremely hard with Morrisons over several ...
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HMRC crackdown on illegal alcohol sales in Scotland
An HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) taskforce is cracking down on sales of illegal alcohol in Scotland. More than 40 officers from HMRC, South Lanarkshire Trading Standards and Police Scotland visited a number of premises in South Lanarkshire and Glasgow, and a total of 1,570 litres of beer, 1,880 litres ...
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Police investigate racial abuse of forecourt cashier
Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a cashier at a Norwich petrol station was racially abused by a customer. The incident took place at the BP Oval garage in Dereham Road at around 1.10am on Sunday September 8. The victim was serving a man, who was accompanied by ...
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Mixed reaction to Labour leader’s speeech
Labour leader Ed Miliband’s speech to his party conference has provoked a mixed reaction from businesses and trade bodies. ACS has welcomed his commitment to reduce the burden of business rates on local shops if the party were to be elected in 2015. Miliband claimed his first act in Government ...
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Tesco follows Asda with fuel price cut announcement
Tesco is dropping the price of unleaded petrol by up to 2ppl and diesel by 1ppl from September 24. The move follows an announcement by Asda on September 23 that it had set a new minimum national price on petrol and diesel of 131.7ppl and 137.7ppl respectively. Tesco is also ...
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Record number of older drivers on the road
The number of older people with driving licences has exceeded the four million mark according to data analysed by the RAC Foundation. The figures show there are now 4,018,900 men and women aged 70 or over who hold a valid full British licence. Of these people, 191 are aged 100 ...
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Asda sets new national fuel price limit
Asda has announced a new national price cap following the latest reductions in wholesale costs on unleaded and diesel – it’s second such announcement in two weeks. From tomorrow (Tuesday, September 24) drivers filling up at any of Asda’s 223 forecourts will pay no more than 131.7ppl on unleaded and ...
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Pair jailed over tobacco duty fraud
Two Manchester men caught with illegal tobacco and unexplained cash in their homes have been jailed following an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Steven McElroy, 53, of Denton was arrested on three separate occasions handling illegal cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco (HRT) and was caught with bundles of ...
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Midlands Co-op joins Payment Watch
Midland Co-operative Society has signed up to the Payment Watch debt recovery scheme run by the British Oil Security Syndicate (BOSS). It means the co-operative’s 16 forecourt sites have joined the scheme, which puts in place a co-ordinated system for recovering financial losses incurred by ‘no means of payment’ incidents. ...
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Forecourt owner welcomes end of WPC’s claim
A Norfolk petrol retailer who was being sued by a policewoman who injured herself on his forecourt during a call-out, has welcomed her decision to drop the case. Steve Jones, the owner of Nun’s Bridges Service Station, described the decision as “a victory for commonsense” and that he hoped he ...
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AA launches price comparison app
The AA is launching a smartphone price comparison app which it claims will enable its members to find the cheapest fuel in their area. It said the tool is needed because motorists are facing a postcode lottery with some petrol retailers failing to pass on lower wholesale prices, while others ...