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LEGAL DOCTOR: Dealing with the difficult decision to remove a director

3 days ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | David Emery

Source: Winckworth Sherwood Removing a company director and managing conflicts – what should I do? For most private companies, whether a large corporate entity or a family business, there will likely be a time when a director needs to retire or be removed.
Top 50 Indie Brookfield Group takes on two marathons for charity

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

Staff from The Brookfield Group, which owns and operates eight forecourts and leases out a further 13, are taking part in the London Marathon and the Boston Marathon to raise money for a children’s charity. Brookfield’s Aziz Patel and Maksud Valli Patel will take part in Massachusetts’ famed Boston Marathon on 21 April, while nine staff members from the firm will enter the London Marathon on 27 April.
Slough Council to install 1,600+ kerbside chargepoints

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Tracy West

Slough Borough Council is planning to install at least 1,600 on-street, kerbside charging points between now and 2040. The new comes after the Council was awarded £2.23m in funding from the Department for Transport’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Capital Fund. The focus of the installation will be on residential areas, particularly those that do not have off-street parking.
Locker firm InPost buys Yodel to create UK’s third largest logistics firm

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

InPost, which operates around 9,000 drop-off and collection lockers around the UK, including at numerous forecourts, has acquired delivery firm Yodel in a £106m deal that creates the third largest logistics firm in the UK.
Top 50 Indie Tankerford installs laundrette facilities at half its forecourts

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

Independent forecourt operator Tankerford is installing washing machines at six of its sites, broadening the services the firm offers. Installations will commence in the coming days at four confirmed sites, with data being finalised for a further two forecourts. “We’re looking at ways of keeping up with the market as it keeps growing and transitioning, and it’s a no brainer for us”, Tankerford’s retail sales director, Jamie Wheeler told Forecourt Trader.
Moto submits second planning application for Basingstoke MSA

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Tracy West

Moto submits second planning application for Basingstoke MSA By Tracy West2025-04-16T14:44:00 Moto has submitted a revised planning application for a motorway service area (MSA) at land adjacent to Junction 6 of the M3 near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Roadworks on over 1,000 miles of major roads lifted ahead of Easter break

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

Roadworks are being lifted on 1,127 miles of motorways and A roads in time for the Easter getaway, when an expected 21 million people will take to the road. National Highways, which operates the UK’s Strategic Road Network of motorways and major A roads, has completed some significant projects ahead of the upcoming four-day weekend, and is pausing other schemes to help ease congestion.
Gridserve adds 7,200kWh batteries to Gatwick EV forecourt

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

Source: UK Power Networks EV chargers are increasingly being combined with large batteries to optimise electricity use, and a new installation at Gridserve’s Gatwick hub has seen two 3.6 megaWatt-hour batteries installed to store energy generated by on-site solar panels. The vast batteries, supplied by SYL, are designed to store electricity harnessed by the site’s 114 photovoltaic panels, which can generate up to 33.3 kiloWatts, using this energy to charge EVs during hours of peak energy demand.
ANPR data reveals 5m drivers are set to stop at motorway services this Easter

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Hugo Griffiths

Figures extracted from automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) logs indicate that five million vehicles are set to pull into motorway service areas over the long Easter weekend. An average of a million vehicles a day are predicted to use MSAs between Thursday 17 April and Easter Monday, with 62,000 an hour visiting services during peak hours, which are expected to be between 11am and 1pm each day.
FOCUS ON INSURANCE: Cutting costs will cut your cover

1 week ago | forecourttrader.co.uk | Tracy West

We all know business costs are spiralling out of control but the one cost you should not scrimp on is insurance. However, some forecourt operators are too hung up on price. Peter Jackaman, founder of JackaMan Insurance Services, says: “Some owners don’t consider the quality of the product or the quality of the insurer.