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
Michael-Leon Wooley Wooley auditioned 107 times before landing his first role in the national tour of "Purlie", making three-hundred dollars a week. After the national tour of "Purlie" Wooley returned to New York and supported himself by playing in piano bars and occasionally singing in subway stations as well as working as a singing waiter on the Spirit of New York, a dinner cruise ship that circles Manhattan. In 1992 Wooley made his Broadway debut as an understudy (Big Moe) in the Clarke Peters' musical, "Five Guys Named Moe". After "Five Guys Named Moe" he embarked on national tours with The Pointer