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Highland Group creates ‘shopping experience’ at refurbished forecourt

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Cambridgeshire forecourt operator Highland Group has refurbished its Childerley Gate Service Station into a ‘local shopping experience’ with an on-site farm shop and butchers recently launching. The forecourt operators purchased the Dry Drayton site eight years ago from BP and had operated a small Budgens…

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