Unwelcome guests seen at Welcome Break
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• Motorway services—regularly blasted for their substandard food—have apparently managed to attract a new group of diners, But, unfortunately For other customers at Welcome Break's Birchanger Services on the Mil in Essex, the new visitors are of the rodent variety. The service station admits it has developed a serious rat problem.
One driver branded the infestation "disgusting", and claims he saw two rats actually enter the building. "I reckon there were 50 or 60 of them running about," he adds.
"It's disgusting—the place should have been shut down. If it had been a small place, the sort we rely on to keep us going, it would have been shut down long ago," says Brian Anderson from Brian Anderson Removals tio Storage in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
A Welcome Break spokesman says the company is aware of the problem but reports that it is confined to the exterior of the service station. He stresses that no rats have been seen inside.
Earlier this year the Welcome Break group hired food critic Egon Ronay in a bid to improve its food. Ranay says: "We are, of course, doing a very big operation which will start in November, and I cannot really comment until then. not knowing the individual stations."