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Richard Buttrey · July 2nd 04, 04:46 PM posted to uk.transport,uk.transport.london

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:53:31 +0100, (Steve
Firth) wrote:

However it was held to be more important to bulldoze a bit of forest and
build an expensive monstrosity. The excuse given was that it woudl
create local jobs. I never knew that so many Albanians and Romanians
lived in Winchester - there must have been hundreds of them just waiting
for the service station to open. And even stranger, why do all of them
claim to be Portugese or Italian but are unable to speak the language of
either country?

Don't know about Winchester, but Watford Gap seems to have a fair
share of Spanish / Portugese assistants in the shop. Do Road Chef have
some sort of Youth employment programme / arrangement in place?

They're always seem extremely helpful and polite - (and that's not
meant to be some sort of patronising comment).

Rgds

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Richard Buttrey
Grappenhall, Cheshire, UK
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