A petrol station including a Marks & Spencer Simply Food outlet has opened at the A34 Milton Services, near Didcot, after a £2m renovation. The site was shut for 17 weeks while the old BP store was knocked down and the new shop built. The development will be closely followed by a similar £850,000 scheme at the BP garage on the Wolvercote Roundabout on Woodstock Road, Oxford, which is due to open on July 21.

Milton Park owners MEPC have also completed work at the Milton Interchange, widening it to three lanes to reduce jams. Signalling and pedestrian access have also been improved.