On this day 50 years ago (1976): a close call at Newport Pagnell, when AA patrolman Charlie Hough spotted a holdall filled with wires in the car park. He moved it to an open space shortly before it exploded. Service stations had to be on high alert during this difficult period for transport.
Newspaper article: Love-struck couples in Medway planning to tie the knot next year could be on course for a deluxe Christmas present - a £5,000 wedding at a motorway service station. Bosses at Medway Pavilion on the M2 at Gillingham have put together their own special-rate package to entice sweethearts to take the plunge in the fast lane. But the deal does have one small hitch — no booze - which means you will not be able to toast the newlyweds happiness with their favourite tipple. The bizarre break from tradition comes as new laws are set to be introduced relaxing restrictions on where people can get married. And Pavilion Services, the company which runs the station, says the idea has already attracted huge interest. The package includes: • £200 towards the cost of a wedding dress: • hire of morning suit for the groom - including a chauffeur-driven car: • all the food — including wedding cake and a four-course meal for 100 guests; •a clergyman to perform a special blessing: • hire of a hall and disco for an evening
Anybody have any contacts at Medway services to bring this offer back?
Statistically our followers are more likely to be Burger King drive thru users, so do make sure Burger King know how you feel about this
Everything gravitates to the centre: Roadchef to reinstate Pret A Manger units after success with Moto, Welcome Break and MFG
Popular UK service station announces closures as another one enters liquidation
It's SRT Petroleum, a petrol station somewhere on the slow road between Dorchester and Bristol
Is it Half Term? Online newspapers are recycling an old story about Gloucester being the best service station. Here's the write-up they're referring to
British infrastructure planning has claimed another victim, as the planned Catterick services for the A1(M) has had its planning permission revoked, following concern raised by rival Moto about its flood risk considerations.
BritainsNews: YouTuber Cara Reviews the UK's Most Popular Motorway Service Station
GAUK MotorBuzz: I spent 72 hours visiting UK motorway services and what I found at one stop floored me'
Worcester News: 'Better than back home': US TikTok foodie falls in love with M5 service station
My feed is just wall-to-wall service station influencers. Even I think you guys need a life.
The A4260 (old A43) still has a blue 'Services' sign at Peartree!
Blue was the colour unofficially used by the Department of Transport for a select number of service areas on A-roads, before green signs were authorised in 1982.
The former Buckingham Little Chef, which became a Starbucks, has closed
Costa drive thru
Hello, England!
(Pictured: England)
First 'Electric Freightway' eHGV motorway charging points open at Exeter and Baldock services
⚠️ M1 northbound ⚠️
Lusk service area on the M1 northbound is CLOSED due to flooding at the roundabout.
The Comfort Café truckstop, which closed in 2018, is set to be turned into an industrial unit
A direction sign with the legend "Services, Hotel" and then a bed symbol.
It is officially the most barren "Services" sign
(and yes it's also the wrong colour)
The original vibe coding
Since posting an anti-AI rant, this website has gone offline twice.
First time was because of a complicated operational limit I don't understand.
Second time was because I installed an update without reading the changelog and then went to lunch.
That's how a website should be run.
ICYMI: The independent A-road service area called 'Cornwall' has been purchased by Welcome Break.
The Wetherspoon pub at Beaconsfield services, a subject of controversy when it opened, has quietly closed
Ic ould do withone
Screenshot of newspaper article which has a photo of Cornwall services with the caption: "Cornwall Services towards which ketamine drug courier Chloe Walsh was speeding away before being caught by police"
Welcome Break have announced their purchase of Cornwall services. I was going to tell you to read our coverage (link: motorwayservices.uk/Cornwall#Sale ), but we can't get you a picture better than what Reach Plc are using for this story:
Yes I know our costs are covered by ads (in theory - the ad industry has also collapsed), bu you have my blessing to use an ad blocker.
I can't find it because Google's a mess, but somebody once wrote that our website is "old fashioned", in a way "the web needs more of"
As more and more websites feel broken, stick two fingers up at AI summaries, video, data tracking and trolling by reading a massive page about a service station
Lancaster Services - the brutalist tower they can’t get rid of and can’t use either.
Aliens, innit?
