A new scheme to help retailers and market traders to recruit talented apprentices is set to be launched across the UK this summer.

Symonds Retail, winner of Forecourt Trader of the Year 2012 and Best Forecourt Loo 2013, has now added Independent Retail Chain of the Year to its trophy cabinet following this week’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013.

A Co-operative Food petrol station near Bournemouth has had to be evacuated after a car drove into one of the fuel pumps.

The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA), which represents franchised car and commercial vehicle retailers across the UK, has welcomed the draft Consumer Rights Bill.

Motorcycle sales increased slightly last month, but there is still a long road to recovery for the motorcycle market, according to Sue Robinson, director of the National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA), which represents motorcycle retailers across the UK.

Two raids in which cigarettes were stolen from petrol stations in Derbyshire are being linked by police.

All nicotine-containing products (NCPs), such as electronic cigarettes, are to be regulated as medicines in a move to make these products safer and more effective to reduce the harms of smoking.

Motorists are more dependent on their cars than ever before, according to a new report from the RAC looking at changes in motoring over the past 25 years.

The AA Charitable Trust is urging male drivers not to ignore their driving fears after figures reveal how unlikely they are to seek help with their driving.

Tough competition and rising costs mean convenience store owners are taking home less than the minimum wage in order to keep their businesses going, according to the latest figures released by the Association of Convenience Stores.

Ministers are being urged by the Association of Convenience Stores to explain to MPs how proposals contained in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Policing and Crime Bill will not lead to fewer prosecutions of shop theft offences.

Inform Information Systems’ product, FuelsPricing.com, will be used by EuroGarages to support fuel pricing across its growing network of 100-plus retail locations.

Despite the extra £25 million of funding set aside in 2011 to help tackle the smuggling of legitimate tobacco brands in the country, PRA chairman Brian Madderson said HMRC has yet to get a grip on the situation.

Figures released by the Association of Convenience Stores have shown that London retailers are the hardest hit by parking regulations in the UK, and that their businesses are suffering as a result.

A Texaco petrol station in Dorset has been sealed off by police as part of an operation by the Metropolitan Police Kidnap and Specialist Investigations Unit.

Legislation requiring petrol stations to have stage II Vapour Recovery Systems is rapidly being repealed in the US, but although the UK follows the US in many other respects, experts say it is highly unlikely the expensive requirements will be lifted here.

Two thirds of UK drivers would be devastated if they lost their car according to figures published today as road mafety minister Stephen Hammond launched a new THINK! drink-drive campaign to raise awareness of the consequences of a conviction.

Topaz, Ireland's biggest fuels and convenience retailer has been recognised as the country’s leading forecourt brand in a survey carried out on behalf of Retail Excellence Ireland.

The growing consumer appetite for redeeming money-off coupons has increased dramatically with 90% of UK consumers stating that they use coupons, according to coupon and voucher services provider Valassis Ltd.

Well, what a pleasant surprise for a change. Just when the industry was going about its business and had given up expecting any kind of assistance in ensuring fair trading, up popped a European Commission inquiry into alleged oil-price fixing (see News Extra, page 10).

The PRA has offered to submit evidence to the European Commission on alleged anti-competitive pricing tactics in the UK fuel market.

Shell's package for dealers is better than it has been for a long time, and will evolve into a stronger proposition by the end of the year, says Shell's general retail manager, David Moss.

The Petrol Retailers' Association (PRA) has questioned Downing Street's plans to force motorway service areas to display the cost of fuel on road signs.

A petrol station in York was forced to close by competition from supermarkets, documents related to an application to build housing have revealed.

A serious threat to the survival of UK oil refining has been highlighted in a new report sponsored by UKPIA.