Motorway service area Motorway service area Motorway service areas in the United Kingdom, also known as 'service stations' or 'services', are places where drivers can leave a motorway to refuel/recharge, rest, eat and drink, shop or stay in an on-site overnight hotel. The vast majority of motorway services in the UK are owned by one of three companies: Moto, Welcome Break and Roadchef. Smaller operators include Extra, Westmorland and EuroGarages. The first service area in the UK was at Watford Gap on the M1, which opened with the motorway on 2 November 1959. As more service stations opened, the number of operating companies
Charles Wooley "The Examiner". Two years later he joined ABC Radio and moved to Perth. He soon moved to television working on "This Day Tonight", "Nationwide", and "Four Corners". He then served as the ABC's European correspondent based in London. In 1986 he joined Channel Nine where he worked on "Sunday" and then "A Current Affair". Wooley joined "60 Minutes" in 1993. His 2018 interview with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was described as 'Sexist', and 'creepy' He published a book of stories of his time travelling the world as a reporter called "Travelling Tales". Wooley returned to Hobart in 1999