Daily Archives: March 6, 2024

Truck stops upgraded with £16.5m investment

Industry and Government are jointly investing £16.5 million to improve 38 truck stop rest areas across England. The Department for Transport (DfT) will invest £6m with £10.5m coming from industry, to significantly improve their facilities for lorry drivers. Lorry drivers will benefit from more parking spaces, better welfare facilities and safer rest areas, says the DfT. The upgrades will include…

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A Peculiar Paris Pod (3)

The Lost Horizon The novel was published in 1933 and subsequently made into a film.  Our Lost Horizon refers to the outer terminus of the Noisy-le-Grand “Mini Metro” at the failed development named Maille Horizon. To be exact, it was M Pellerin’s development that failed when his company went bust, thus removing any immediate prospect of passengers for the Mini…

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