Hendrix clearly wasn’t alone in bemusement. To this day, most confuse Northamptonshire’s Watford Gap with the larger town of Watford in Hertfordshire, 60 miles south. This is probably to do ...

Watford Gap Services, where music legends such as the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix would stop off, is facing demolition. The iconic services on the M1 in Northamptonshire opened in 1959 and was the ...

Watford Gap, one of the UK's first motorway service stations, is to be demolished to make way for a new travel hub. The M1 rest stop, described as "iconic" by owner Roadchef, welcomed its first ...

Matt Embleton, the site director, said nothing was happening to Watford Gap service station One of the UK's first service stations is "not going anywhere", its director said. It was suggested that ...

Fri 3 Nov 7.35pm • Watford Gap motorway services was once considered the height of 1960s cool by some, but a surge in electric cars means it now needs a facelift.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are on a mission to get from the Ring Tailed Lemur to Watford Gap services in the most entertaining way possible with the help of Ken Cheng, in a warm and witty podcast ...

The gap between pupils in private and state schools progressing to a “high tariff” institution – universities with higher entry requirements – has widened, according to the latest Department for ...

The inside story of how the Championship club dealt with the trauma of their popular goalkeeper dying suddenly this summer at ...

Lando Norris says he will make changes to his approach in his world championship battle with Max Verstappen.

The government is currently reviewing the new hospitals programme, which includes the proposed rebuilding of Watford General ...

At the ground where Sunderland’s dream of promotion to the Premier League was brought to an end back in May of last year, the Black Cats dug deep and passed a mightily difficult test of character.

Giorgi Chakvetadze has been pivotal to their early performances. He got his season underway in the perfect fashion in the ...