The Spectator

A censored hymn to motorway misery

Plus: who benefits from long election campaigns; and Britain’s most indebted streets

issue 28 March 2015

Service record

The government is to form a design panel to improve motorway services stations. These have not always charmed the British public, not least the very first: Watford Gap services, which opened in 1959 on the same day as the first stretch of the M1.
— It quickly became a night-time haunt of rock stars travelling between gigs, but not all were impressed by the food.

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