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 Charles Wooley Charles Wooley (born 1948) is an Australian journalist, reporter and writer, who reported for Channel Nine's "60 Minutes". Wooley was born on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, and moved to Launceston, Tasmania aged three. At the age of 16 Wooley moved to Hobart where he gained an honours degree in history from the University of Tasmania. While he was studying he developed his journalistic skills by editing the university's student newspaper, "Togatus", and was a member of the student theatre group, the Old Nick Company. He moved to Launceston in 1970 to work as a cadet with