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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F0793H - Customers stand beside a closely spaced bank of digital self-service ordering kiosks at the Burger King counter inside Welcome Break Warwick Services on the M40 in Warwickshire. The motorway food court scene illustrates the rapid replacement of conventional staffed tills with touchscreen terminals across fast-food restaurants, transport hubs and other hospitality venues.
The kiosks are intended to accelerate ordering, reduce queues, take card payments and allow customers to browse menus and customise meals without assistance. For the restaurant operator they can increase customer throughput, reduce demands on counter staff, collect sales data and encourage additional purchases through prominent meal upgrades, extras and promotional offers.
However, the experience can feel impersonal and user unfriendly, particularly when several customers are navigating unfamiliar menus simultaneously. Ordering may involve passing through numerous screens, locating products within categories, rejecting optional extras, checking allergen information, selecting collection options and completing a contactless payment before receiving an order number.
Older people, customers with limited digital confidence, visitors with impaired vision or dexterity, people who struggle with written English and travellers under time pressure may find the process confusing or inaccessible. Glare, small text, unclear navigation, timeouts, payment failures and printers that do not issue a receipt can add frustration. The tall fixed screens and lack of seating may also present practical barriers for some disabled users.
Although staff assistance is reportedly available at the northbound Burger King, the image conveys a system in which customers are largely left to work through the electronic ordering process themselves. A staffed counter remains important for accessibility, cash users, complex dietary questions and anyone unable or unwilling to use a touchscreen.
Warwick Services, M40 between Junctions 12 and 13, Banbury Road, Ashorne, Warwickshire, CV35 0AA, En
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3EX1RG0 - Applegreen Electric vehicle charger displaying an out-of-service message at Welcome Break Abington Services beside the M74 in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The touchscreen reads Well that's inconvenient! But we are waiting on an engineer to fix this machine. Thank you , showing that the individual charging unit was unavailable when photographed. The turquoise Applegreen Electric branding, payment terminal and charging instructions identify the equipment as part of the service area's public rapid-charging provision.
Abington Services stands at Junction 13 of the M74 and is an important stopping point for long-distance traffic travelling between northwest England, Glasgow, Edinburgh and destinations farther north in Scotland. For electric-car drivers, a defective charger at a strategic motorway location can cause delay, require use of another available unit or force an unplanned diversion. Such breakdowns contribute to range anxiety, particularly during busy holiday periods, poor weather or journeys made with limited remaining battery capacity.
The service area lists charging provision from Applegreen Electric, GRIDSERVE Electric Highway and Tesla, so the image records the failure of one machine rather than establishing that every charger at the location was unavailable. Even so, the fault illustrates the importance of dependable maintenance, live availability information, adequate charger numbers and resilient power infrastructure as battery-electric vehicle use increases.
The photograph is relevant to editorial coverage of the UK transition from petrol and diesel vehicles, motorway charging reliability, transport decarbonisation and consumer confidence in electric travel. It also represents the practical difficulties encountered by drivers when public charging hardware is broken, awaiting repair or temporarily out of operation on a major cross-border route between England and Scotland
Welcome Break Abington Services, M74 Junction 13, Abington, Biggar, South Lanarkshire,ML12 6RG
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RXX2A9 - Birmingham Clean Air Zone
The Clean Air Zone is the area inside the A4540 Middleway Ring Road. It does not include the Middleway itself. It is operational every day, 24 hours a day. You might have to pay to drive inside it.
There are signs around the Clean Air Zone so drivers can see where it is.
Instead of driving in the Clean Air Zone, you could:
walk or cycle - there are lots of walking and cycling routes
take public transport - use our journey planner to find the best route
Check if you have to pay
Drivers of the most polluting vehicles will have to pay to drive in the Clean Air Zone. You will not have to pay if:
you drive an electric or hybrid vehicle
your car meets emission standards
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B3 2BS
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P91TPB - Gauselmann is a German gaming and gambling company founded by Paul Gauselmann.
In autumn 2012, it acquired the British company Praesepe, headed by Nick Harding
Industry Gambling
Headquarters Espelkamp, Germany
Area served Europe
Key people Paul Gauselmann (founder)
Revenue Increase €2.56 billion (2020)[1]
Number of employees Increase 13,846 (2020)
M5 Strensham motorway service area southbound , Worcestershire , England, UK, WR8 0BZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2P91TPG - Gauselmann is a German gaming and gambling company founded by Paul Gauselmann.
In autumn 2012, it acquired the British company Praesepe, headed by Nick Harding
Industry Gambling
Headquarters Espelkamp, Germany
Area served Europe
Key people Paul Gauselmann (founder)
Revenue Increase €2.56 billion (2020)[1]
Number of employees Increase 13,846 (2020)
M5 Strensham motorway service area southbound , Worcestershire , England, UK, WR8 0BZ
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K888JD -
Frankley Services M5 south, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K52C1W -
Stafford North Services, M6, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K5471Y -
M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M4W2KC -
M6, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK, CW11 4TE
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P53 -
Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P57 -
Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JM9P5E -
Moto Stafford M6 North service station, Staffordshire, England, UK, ST15 0EU
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JMN -
M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JG5JMP -
M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFRBP - Welcome to Shaw Meats
We produce a wide range of products including Salamis, Cured Meats, Game, Fresh Meats, Fresh Sausages, Burgers, Black Pudding, Gluten Free Black Pudding, Haggis and Pork Ribs from our premises just north of the Lake District
Most of our products are available to purchase online, but we're also regulars at various Farmers Markets and Shows, and we have Stockists throughout the UK.
M5 Gloucester Services, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFRBT - Welcome to Shaw Meats
We produce a wide range of products including Salamis, Cured Meats, Game, Fresh Meats, Fresh Sausages, Burgers, Black Pudding, Gluten Free Black Pudding, Haggis and Pork Ribs from our premises just north of the Lake District
Most of our products are available to purchase online, but we're also regulars at various Farmers Markets and Shows, and we have Stockists throughout the UK.
M5 Gloucester Services, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFRBW - Welcome to Shaw Meats
We produce a wide range of products including Salamis, Cured Meats, Game, Fresh Meats, Fresh Sausages, Burgers, Black Pudding, Gluten Free Black Pudding, Haggis and Pork Ribs from our premises just north of the Lake District
Most of our products are available to purchase online, but we're also regulars at various Farmers Markets and Shows, and we have Stockists throughout the UK.
M5 Gloucester Services, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFRD3 - Welcome to Shaw Meats
We produce a wide range of products including Salamis, Cured Meats, Game, Fresh Meats, Fresh Sausages, Burgers, Black Pudding, Gluten Free Black Pudding, Haggis and Pork Ribs from our premises just north of the Lake District
Most of our products are available to purchase online, but we're also regulars at various Farmers Markets and Shows, and we have Stockists throughout the UK.
M5 Gloucester Services, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT340 -
Hartshead Moor, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK, HD6 4JX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT343 -
Hartshead Moor Services, Bradford, Yorkshire, England
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ABJGG9 -
M6 north, Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DAPRB0 - Raymond Anthony Codling was an Inspector with Greater Manchester Police who was murdered at Birch Services on the M62 motorway near Heywood, Greater Manchester, in 1989.
In the early hours of 14 September 1989, Codling, aged 49, in company with Sergeant James Bowden, 45, arrived at Birch motorway services between junctions 18 and 19, westbound, on the M62, looking for a white van, the details for which had been circulated by radio. The officers saw a motorcyclist, whom they approached, and he provided them with his details, which later proved to be false. A short time later they saw the man again, acting suspiciously, and the two officers approached him.
Bowden noticed that the man had a large knife in his belt and was holding his right hand inside his jacket. Bowden attempted to seize the knife but the man pulled back and drew out a 9 mm pistol. The man fired almost immediately at Bowden, but he escaped injury as the bullet was fired across his body and was deflected by the thick leather cover of his notebook in a breast pocket. The man then shot Codling in the chest
as he laid on the ground injured, a second shot was fired at Codling, killing him. Bowden attempted to give chase but was hit by a gunshot in the leg and was forced to take cover
he later recovered from emergency surgery. The suspect escaped.
After a manhunt, the gunman, later identified as Anthony Hughes from Baguley, was traced to a garage in Kendray, South Yorkshire. When officers entered they found Hughes' body
he had killed himself with the same gun used in the attack on Codling and Bowden. No motive was ever established for the attack, except that Hughes had previously carried out a series of armed robberies, had served 15 years in prison for a string of violent offences, and had indicated his desire to kill a police officer following an earlier court appearance for a minor offence for which he was fined.
In 1991, a memorial to Codling was unveiled at the place of his death
M62 eastbound between Junction 18 and 19, Heywood OL10 2QH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K41M60 -
M6, West Midlands, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWEP -
Brookthorpe Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 0DN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWJE -
Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWJJ - Motorway: M5
Where: between junctions J13-14
County: Gloucestershire
Postcode: GL11 6DD
Type: Separate facilities for each carriageway, but linked by a pedestrian footbridge
Info
Operator: Welcome Break
Contact Phone: 01454 260631
Eat-In Food: Starbucks, Eat In, Burger King, KFC
Takeaway Food / General: WH smith
Picnic Area: yes
Cash Machines in main building: Yes (transaction charge applies)
Parking Charges: Free for two hours, charges apply for longer stays. Cars: £10.00. Caravans, Coaches and HGVs: £18.50 including meal voucher or £16.00 without.
Other Facilities/Information: Gaming area, free Wi fi, tourist information area, highways traffic information, large seating area, toilets.
Motel: Days Inn
Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWKJ -
Michaelwood Services M5, Gloucestershire, South West England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWGH -
Brookthorpe Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 0DN
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy JND0B5 -
Gloucester Services M5, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HDEYKH - BP P.L.C. also referred to by its former name, British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas supermajors, whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's fifth-largest revenue (turnover). It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power.
As of 31 December 2015, BP had operations in more than 70 countries, produced around 3.3 million barrels per day (520,000 m3/d) of oil equivalent, and had total proved reserves of 17.18 billion barrels (2.731×109 m3) of oil equivalent. The company has around 17,200 service stations worldwide. Its largest division is BP America in the United States. In Russia BP owns a 19.75% stake in Rosneft, the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company by hydrocarbon reserves and production. BP has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Gloucester,England,UK
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Keele Services, M6, Staffs, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H4HKY3 -
Keele Services, M6, Staffs, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYPFFA - Tesla, following the settlement of a long-running legal case, is finally going to bring some Superchargers to the UK's motorways. Seven new Supercharging stations, all located at motorway service stations, are now in the process of being built, with more coming soon.
Heretofore, Tesla's somewhat anaemic Supercharger roll-out in the UK had mostly been located in cities
not exactly the ideal place to charge up your car for a long-distance drive. Some Superchargers were located near a motorway or main road, but not in motorway service stations.
As reported by Engadget, the dearth of motorway Superchargers was apparently due to a legal dispute between Tesla and Ecotricity, a UK-based company that already had a large number of electric vehicle charging points across the country, including exclusivity deals at motorway service stations.
According to a few newspaper and website reports, Tesla approached Ecotricity prior to the launch of right-hand-drive Model S in the UK, to try and strike some kind of deal to get Supercharging stations into motorway service stations. Seemingly, at some point that deal turned sour, with Ecotricity's founder saying back in May 2014 that this is nothing more than an attempted smash and grab raid. Soon after, both companies hunkered down in litigation land, suing and countersuing each other. This week they finally reached an out-of-court settlement.
Yesterday, somewhat suspiciously and/or coincidentally, both Tesla and Ecotricity published very similar blog posts. Neither post referenced the other company, instead focusing on their commitment to grow their UK electric vehicle charging networks. While the details of the settlement are confidential, given that Tesla is now allowed to build Superchargers at motorway service stations, it would appear to have got its way.
Abingdon,M74, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYPFFC - Tesla, following the settlement of a long-running legal case, is finally going to bring some Superchargers to the UK's motorways. Seven new Supercharging stations, all located at motorway service stations, are now in the process of being built, with more coming soon.
Heretofore, Tesla's somewhat anaemic Supercharger roll-out in the UK had mostly been located in cities
not exactly the ideal place to charge up your car for a long-distance drive. Some Superchargers were located near a motorway or main road, but not in motorway service stations.
As reported by Engadget, the dearth of motorway Superchargers was apparently due to a legal dispute between Tesla and Ecotricity, a UK-based company that already had a large number of electric vehicle charging points across the country, including exclusivity deals at motorway service stations.
According to a few newspaper and website reports, Tesla approached Ecotricity prior to the launch of right-hand-drive Model S in the UK, to try and strike some kind of deal to get Supercharging stations into motorway service stations. Seemingly, at some point that deal turned sour, with Ecotricity's founder saying back in May 2014 that this is nothing more than an attempted smash and grab raid. Soon after, both companies hunkered down in litigation land, suing and countersuing each other. This week they finally reached an out-of-court settlement.
Yesterday, somewhat suspiciously and/or coincidentally, both Tesla and Ecotricity published very similar blog posts. Neither post referenced the other company, instead focusing on their commitment to grow their UK electric vehicle charging networks. While the details of the settlement are confidential, given that Tesla is now allowed to build Superchargers at motorway service stations, it would appear to have got its way.
Abingdon,M74, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW4GX -
Warwick Services, M40, Warwickshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52F - The M6 Toll, also called the Birmingham North Relief Road / BNRR, connects M6 Junction 4 at the National Exhibition Centre to M6 Junction 11A at Wolverhampton with 27 miles (43 km) of six-lane motorway.
The weekday cash cost (2014) is £5.50 for a car and £11.00 for an HGV. The M6 Toll is part of the (unsigned in the UK) E-road E05 and is subject to the same regulations and policing as other motorways in the UK.
Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Keywords: Gt,South,Staffordshire,England,UK,GB,road,charge,charges,charging,gate,tag,village,lane,lanes,barrier,nighttime,dawn,blue,sky,hour,car,vehicles,stationary,red,light,lights,yellow,digital,sign,signs,Wereleia,M6T,department,of,transport,private,Motorway,price,construction,HGV,Expressway,Gotonysmith,United,Kingdom,roads,barriers,collection,regulations,statutory,instrument,dept,speed,limit,limits,prices,expensive,junction,junctions,Birmingham,North,Relief,Road,BNRR,six-lane,6,lane,express,Midland,Ltd,M6Toll,Wolverhampton,Traffic,rates,charges,card,payment,payments,convenient,RFID,RFIDtag,DART-TAG,DART,MEL,Macquarie,Infrastructure,Group,MIG,Atlas,Roads,investment,plaza,plazas,30mph,Shunpiking,the,avoidance,or,boycott,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy ECW52G - The M6 Toll, also called the Birmingham North Relief Road / BNRR, connects M6 Junction 4 at the National Exhibition Centre to M6 Junction 11A at Wolverhampton with 27 miles (43 km) of six-lane motorway.
The weekday cash cost (2014) is £5.50 for a car and £11.00 for an HGV. The M6 Toll is part of the (unsigned in the UK) E-road E05 and is subject to the same regulations and policing as other motorways in the UK.
Great Wyrley, Staffordshire, England, UK
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70 is the atomic number of ytterbium, a lanthanide. Also, 70 years denotes the expiration of copyrights. In miles per hour, 70 is the national speed limit in the United Kingdom (for cars and motorcycles on the best grades of road). The number 70 is frequently referenced by the musical duo Boards of Canada: they have songs titled 'Sixtyten' (Music Has the Right to Children, 1998) and 'The Smallest Weird Number' (Geogaddi, 2002), and their record label is named Music70.
Strangely, the French do not have a word for 70, instead using 'soixante-dix' (60 + 10). Other French-speaking countries such as Belgium, Switzerland, Aosta Valley and Jersey do have a word for it, using 'septante'.
70 appears many times in the Christian bible and in Islam. Seventy souls went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrew's Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27). According to Jewish tradition, there is a core of 70 nations and 70 world languages. In Jewish tradition, there were 70 men in the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4). Seventy elders were assembled by Moses on God's command in the desert (Numbers 11:16-30). In the Gospel of Luke 10:1-24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel. In Islamic history, 70 are the number of the dead among prophet Muhammad's adversary during the Battle of Badr. 70 are the number of Prophet Muhammad's followers martyred at the Battle of Uhud. In Shia Islam, 70 are the number of martyr among Imam Hussein's followers during the tragedy of Karbala.
Its factorization makes it a sphenic number. 70 is a Pell number and a generalized heptagonal number, one of only two numbers to be both. Also, it is the seventh pentagonal number and the fourth triskaidecagonal number, as well as the fifth pentatope number. It is the smallest weird number.
The sum of the first twenty four squares starting from one is seventy squared. This relates seventy to the Leech lattice and thus string theory. Since it is possible to find sequences of 70 consecutive integers such that each inner member shares a factor with either the first or the last member, 70 is an Erd\u0151s\u2013Woods number. In base 10, it is a Harshad number.
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Forty-seven is the fifteenth prime number, a safe prime, the thirteenth supersingular prime, and the sixth Lucas prime. Forty-seven is a highly cototient number. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part. Its the atomic number of silver and the atomic weight of Titanium.
Fortyseven has been the favourite number of Pomona College, California, USA, since 1964. A mathematical proof, written in 1964 by Professor Donald Bentley, supposedly demonstrates that all numbers are equal to 47. However, Bentley offered it as a 'joke proof' to further a popular student research project that listed real and imaginative '47 sightings'. Bentley used the invalid proof to introduce his students to the concept of mathematical proofs. The proof used limits to show that the sum of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the base side. Bentley chose forty-seven as the base side, but he could have used any number.
Joe Menosky graduated from Pomona College in 1979 and went on to become one of the story writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Menosky 'infected' other Star Trek writers with an enthusiasm for the number 47. As a result, 47, its reverse 74, its multiples, or combinations of 47 occur surreptitiously in almost every episode of the program and its spin-offs Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. Forty-seven might be mentioned in dialogue or appear on a computer screen, for example:
- In the Voyager episode 'Parallax', we learn that the Emergency Medical Holographic Channel is 47 and that the EMH has the experience of 47 individual medical officers.
- In the 2009 film Star Trek, the Enterprise was built in Sector 47 of the Riverside Shipyards, and 47 Klingon ships are said to have been destroyed by Nero's ship, the Narada.
Washroom Hygiene monitors are all the rage these days. They come in a range of Standard, standard Plus, Professional, Professional Plus and Ultima (which can count down, has customer feed back buttons, option to bleep if poor or fair pressed more than say 5 times within a countdown period, data showing what time buttons were pressed, Delay on buttons pressed). So pretty much all as would be needed from a bog standard clock.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0JP6 - British speed camera sign in front of a summer blue sky
Knutsford Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 2PL
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DB0JX5 - British speed camera sign in front of a summer blue sky
Knutsford Road, Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire WA4 2PL
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Five is the third prime number.
5 is the third Sophie Germain prime, the first safe prime, the third Catalan number, and the third Mersenne prime exponent. Five is the first Wilson prime and the third factorial prime, also an alternating factorial. Five is the first good prime.
Five is a congruent number. Five is conjectured to be the only odd untouchable number and if this is the case then five will be the only odd prime number that is not the base of an aliquot tree.
Vulgar fractions with 5 or 2 in the denominator do not yield infinite decimal expansions, unlike expansions with all other prime denominators, because they are prime factors of ten, the base. When written in the decimal system, all multiples of 5 will end in either 5 or 0.
Five is the atomic number of boron, also the number of appendages on most starfish, which exhibit pentamerism.
In the Christian religion, there are traditionally Five Wounds of Jesus Christ in Christianity: the Scourging at the Pillar, the Crowning with Thorns, the wounds in Christ's hands, the wounds in Christ's feet, and the Side Wound of Christ.
In Islam, Muslims pray to Allah five times a day.
The M5 is a motorway in England. It runs from a junction with the M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. The M5 follows the route of the A38 road quite closely. The two deviate slightly around Bristol (or Bristle as the natives call it) and the area south of the city (junctions 16 to 22). The A38 goes straight through the centre of Bristol and passes by Bristol Airport
whereas the M5 skirts around both of them, with access to the airport from junctions 18, 19 or 22. The A38 continues south from where the M5 finishes in Devon.
In October 2009, workmen clearing the bottom of the M5 at Junction 14 discovered a human skeleton in a black bin bag dumped in the bushes at the side of the motorway. The police were called soon after, and it was soon established that the bones were those of a young female. A few days later, DNA found on the remains confirmed that the body was that of Melanie Hall, who disappeared in June 1996 after a night out in Bath, and who'd never been found. Melanie's dental records confirmed that the body was hers, and the police began a formal investigation into her murder.
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Keywords: Nature,birds,ducks,water,sign,no,fishing,from,this,bank,No Fishing,f,birds ducks water sign no fishing from this bank No,Fishing from,cheshire,knutsford,northwich,middlewich,M6,motorway,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4541555972 - 'Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', 'This is my message to you-ou-ou:'
Singin': 'Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!'
Singin': 'Don't worry about a thing' - I won't worry!
''Cause every little thing gonna be all right.'
Three cheeky birds, Shakerley Mere near Knutsford Cheshire UK
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Keywords: A56,M56,motorway,road,england,lymm,cheshire,chester,traffic,trai a56,trails,red,white,dusk,night,shot,tripod,sky,sunset,after,magic,hour,uk,britain,trucks,vans,sign,hazards,warning,jam,polution,co2,vehicle,car,freight,information,info,highway,auto,autos,automobile,automobiles,vehicles,abstract,light,stream,lightstream,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4479092773 - 'Early evening on Euroroute E22 (2320 km Holyhead to Ishim road) or the M56 as Mancunians may actually know it.
It is the main link between North wales, M6 motorway (the first in Britain), Manchester City, Airport and the M60/M62 route east. It took thirteen years from first proposal in 1958 to starting the Manchester end of the motorway, then a further ten years for all junctions to Chester to be completed.
It has recently been populated with traffic information signs displaying occasionally useful information and 'fillers' such as 'Don't Hog The Middle Lane', 'Dont Drink And Drive', 'Say No To Drugs' and other subliminal messages. It is always unerving to see a yellow sign up ahead as the density of chemical plants between Lymm and Chester (Stanlow etc) makes it quite likely for chemical spillages etc on this section.
Here is a typical news item local-news/2009/09/08/m56-motorway-closed-after-chemical-spillage-92534-24641115/\' rel=\'nofollow\'>www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/09... . In this case you can read how a 'busy hat stretch' (straight from Vic &
Bobs Big Night Out that one) made the job more difficult (sic).
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4306593793 - 'Brother Paul on his journey from Preston to London via Coventry UK.
Standing by the services Brother Paul almost looks like he is standing by the entrance of a huge glass cathedral.
I am sure more people visit the M6 motorway services than most churches, maybe they really are the cathedrals of the automobile / car age. Instead of 'body of christ' we worship at KFC, the E&
DCo (eat and drink Co) and M&
S Simply food.
Paul is far from the stereotype. A honourable historic tradition working within the modern world.
Another alternative religious view - www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4163897698/
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Keywords: M42,motorway,car,park,stop,stopped,traffic,heavy,cars,Solihul,birmingham,england,UK,40,mph,40mpg,variable,speed,limit,section,J5,J6,junction,5,6,junction5,camera,Gatso,365days,west,midlands,britain,GB,europe,english,auto,autos,automobile,automobiles,vehicle,vehicles,hotpix!,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4009267682 - '40mph, I wish...
This is the car I wish I was in www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3708845957/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0N19 - Slow traffic on the M42 Motorway near Solihull and Shirley, Birmingham, UK
M42 Motorway, near Solihull and Shirley, Junction 5, Birmingham, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3838285938 - 'A classic services built from stout 1965's concrete, an iconic landmark on britains first motorway, M6 Preston Bypass.
It used to be Rank, then Granada, was Forton, then Lancaster, then Lancaster (Forton).
The tower is called 'The Pennine Tower', and when it opened it had a restaurant with a panoramic view. However, the tower fell short of the Health and Safety regulations for the number of emergency exits required in a public building, so it had to be closed. It's now only used for staff training and offices.
The tower is unique to the services, but Rank built slightly smaller versions at other services of theirs such as Hilton Park,which has suffered exactly the same fate. Although the one here is the 'daddy' (as they say).
In 2008 the services won a five star loo award, one more than in 2006. Worth sharing that with you, in case you might consider holding on until Knutsford.
Rumours that the cafe used to revolve inside like 'Piz Gloria' in Switzerland where the famous James Bond was filmed'on her Majesty's Secret Service are untrue. (apparently).
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Keywords: UK,Roadchef,services,meal,food,non,non-food,two,for,tenner,peas,mash,potato,potatoes,gravy,foodie,square,plate,road,chef,area,M6,motorway,roadside,treat,Stafford,Service,Staffs,England,365days,sausages,sausage,vegatables,meat,veg,plated,feed,feeding,snack,cheap,west,midlands,britain,GB,europe,english,hotpics,hotpic,hotpick,hotpicks,british,classic,hotpix!,bangersandmash,bangers&mash,sausage&mash,sausageandmash,porky,product,products
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3708723795 - 'Sausage, potato and Peas - A bargain I regretted by the time I finished it.
Another type of meal, reassuringly home-made this time www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3834521645/in/set-72157621...
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Keywords: M1,Watford,Gap,services,UK,Hertfordshire,road,motorway,365days,west,midlands,england,britain,GB,europe,english,tonysmith,tony,smith,auto,autos,automobile,automobiles,vehicle,vehicles,hotpix!,#tonysmithhotpix,hotpix.rocketmail.com,hotpixuk.rocketmail.com,contact.tony.smith.gmail.com,tony.smith.gmail.com,tonys@miscs.com,tony.smith@mis-ams.com
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3690685457 - 'View from the footbridge, M1 Watford Gap services. A sight you dont usually capture here in England, a single car on the carriageway.
Forton services a few hundred miles north on the M6 www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/3838285938/
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF0NP5 - Single car on M1 at Watford Gap services, M1 Motorway, Northamptonshire, England UK
Watford Gap services, M1 Motorway, Northamptonshire, England UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K43PN9 -
M6 northbound, England, United Kingdom
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFFFHE -
M56, Arley Rd, Appleton Thorn, Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK, WA4 4RW
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHTE5 - Friday traffic jam M6 Southbound Knutsford under a gloomy cloudy sky J19
M6 j19, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
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Gloucestershire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWEN - Artisan Bread, M5 Gloucester Farm Shop Motorway Service area, Gloucestershire, England, UK - how all services area cafes should be has the strength of a real-world scene: ordinary enough to be believable, but specific enough to support precise editorial use. Gloucester Services became notable for treating motorway food as a regional farm-shop offer rather than a standardised fast-food stop, putting local produce and craft presentation into a heavily car-based setting. The subject can illustrate food miles, motorway culture, consumer expectations, rural supply chains, premium convenience retail and the reinvention of service stations as destinations rather than necessities. The location detail, Gloucester, strengthens searches for regional features, travel pages, local-history pieces and news use where a named place matters. Relevant editorial themes include food retail, British food, hospitality and farm shop, with each theme rooted in the visible subject, place or activity. It can work both as a straightforward location record and as a wider editorial illustration of the habits, services, buildings, symbols and small commercial details that shape everyday life.
Brookthorpe Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 0DN
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England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy EYPFF9 - Tesla, following the settlement of a long-running legal case, is finally going to bring some Superchargers to the UK's motorways. Seven new Supercharging stations, all located at motorway service stations, are now in the process of being built, with more coming soon.
Heretofore, Tesla's somewhat anaemic Supercharger roll-out in the UK had mostly been located in cities
not exactly the ideal place to charge up your car for a long-distance drive. Some Superchargers were located near a motorway or main road, but not in motorway service stations.
As reported by Engadget, the dearth of motorway Superchargers was apparently due to a legal dispute between Tesla and Ecotricity, a UK-based company that already had a large number of electric vehicle charging points across the country, including exclusivity deals at motorway service stations.
According to a few newspaper and website reports, Tesla approached Ecotricity prior to the launch of right-hand-drive Model S in the UK, to try and strike some kind of deal to get Supercharging stations into motorway service stations. Seemingly, at some point that deal turned sour, with Ecotricity's founder saying back in May 2014 that this is nothing more than an attempted smash and grab raid. Soon after, both companies hunkered down in litigation land, suing and countersuing each other. This week they finally reached an out-of-court settlement.
Yesterday, somewhat suspiciously and/or coincidentally, both Tesla and Ecotricity published very similar blog posts. Neither post referenced the other company, instead focusing on their commitment to grow their UK electric vehicle charging networks. While the details of the settlement are confidential, given that Tesla is now allowed to build Superchargers at motorway service stations, it would appear to have got its way.
Abingdon,M74, Scotland
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2Y6 - Hartshead Moor services is a motorway service station on the M62 near Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is the highest service station in the United Kingdom
On 4 February 1974 a bomb was detonated on a coach ferrying British Army and Royal Air Force personnel from and to the bases at Catterick and Darlington during a period of industrial strike action on the trains. The incident occurred between junctions 26 and 27, shortly after midnight while most of those aboard were sleeping. Twelve people died and more than fifty were injured.
A memorial plaque was installed in memory of those who were killed, situated in the entrance hall of the westbound section of the service area, which was used as a first aid station for those wounded in the blast. A memorial service was held at the service area in February 2004. In 2009 a new memorial was created outside the service area at the wishes of the relatives of those killed
In December 2005 the RSPCA, working with the BBC filmed the sale of an African puff adder at the service area, exploiting a legal loophole to sell on the snake. It was discovered in April 2006 that the service area's toilets were frequently being used for homosexual activity.
Alpine Cleaning Services, who successfully pitched for investment on the television show Dragons' Den, opened one of their first truck-washing facilities at the service area in August 2006.
The service station is one of fourteen for which large murals were commissioned from artist David Fisher in the 1990s, designed to reflect the local area and history
Huddersfield, Yorkshire, HD6 4JX
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYGC - Green Park is a business park near junction 11 of the M4 motorway on the outskirts of Reading, but partly in the civil parish of Shinfield, in the English county of Berkshire.
The site covers 195 acres (79 ha) and was developed by Prudential and PRUPIM. It is now (October 2012) owned by Oxford Properties. About five thousand people work on site.
100 Longwater Avenue, Green Park ,Reading, United Kingdom, RG2 6GP
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DGHE9X - A premier business park near Reading, Green Park is home to major corporations and smaller niche companies.
Green Park business development, Reading, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWNP - Photo shows Farm shop entrance,M5 Gloucester Farm Shop Motorway Service area, Gloucestershire, England, UK. The image is commercially useful for stories about high streets, independent traders, market halls, shopping habits, visitor footfall, town centre regeneration and local economies. Retail and market photographs with readable frontage, product display or a recognisable location help illustrate how everyday spending, tourism and small business activity are changing across Britain. The supplied location evidence places the subject at or near England, UK, Gloucestershire, which adds value for buyers searching by town, city, region or postcode. Visible wording, branding or signage noted in the supplied caption should be kept as search evidence because it helps buyers looking for specific editorial concepts, public messages, commercial streets, transport detail or local identity. Season and footfall can be inferred only from the image, while the retail or market subject is explicit in the supplied caption. It should work for editorial buyers needing authentic, non-staged British or travel imagery for news, magazine, blog, local government, heritage, housing, transport, tourism, retail, public policy or social commentary use. The caption should be checked against the visible photograph before upload so that any readable signs, weather, time of day and people context are accurately reflected without overstating facts not shown in the image. The strongest sales value is the combination of named subject, real location and everyday documentary style, giving picture editors a flexible image that can sit alongside features, opinion pieces, explainers, historical retrospectives and local news.
Brookthorpe Gloucester Gloucestershire GL4 0DN
