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NEAR THE MOTORWAYS

The only decent place to stop on a motorway, after bouts of tiresome caravan dodging and overtaking the less mechanically able, is at the wonderful Tebay Services on the M6, or its sister site on the M5 at Gloucester. But there are swathes of country where the light of commonsense services has yet to prevail. It is here that you need Hugh Cantile’s genuinely useful handbook tucked into

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