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Sept 2021
Last Updated: 29/09/2021
Fuel Watch: Harrogate district fuel problems persist
Follow our blog to find out where fuel is getting through in the Harrogate district. Send us your forecourt updates to help motorists keep moving.
Fuel stations are trying to get back to normality across the Harrogate district amid reports that the crisis is slowing down.
Some forecourts remain closed but many are back up and running across the area. So we have created this live blog to help those in need find fuel.
Have you just been to fill up? Help other drivers in need by letting us know what the situation is like at your local petrol station.
Send an email to contact@thestrayferret.co.uk with your reports and we will add them to this rolling coverage throughout the day.
645pm - Reports of two stations open
Esso on Wetherby Road in Harrogate is open and we also hear the Texaco in Kirk Hammerton is operating but some pumps are not available.
3.50pm - Esso on Harrogate's Skipton Road closed
Thanks to Ian for telling us the Esso garage on Skipton Road has closed.
Is the fuel supply issue easing today? The Petrol Retailers Association, which represents filling stations, says there are "early signs" of pressure at the pumps easing.
But Steve McNamara of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association says "the situation is not getting better"
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says soldiers could be driving fuel tankers "in the next couple of days".
2.15pm - No queues at Morrisons in Boroughbridge
A reader tells us that Morrisons in Boroughbridge has plenty of all fuel and there are no queues. This is a key site for many motorists in the Harrogate district and has been the scene of lengthy queues in recent days. A sign of things getting back to normal?
Send us your updates from forecourts in Harrogate, Ripon, Pateley Bridge, Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Masham and anywhere in between.
1.20pm - Harrogate fuel stations working well
Our reporter has been out and about once again to get a view from the fuel stations across the town. There have been deliveries but some places have since run out of fuel.
- Sainsbury’s on Wetherby Road, stock of both petrol and diesel. No queues.
- Esso on Wetherby Road, stock of both petrol and diesel. No queues.
- Morrisons off Hookstone Chase, stock of petrol and diesel. No queues.
- BP on Leeds Road, stock of both petrol and diesel after a tanker delivery around midday.
- Asda on Dragon Road, stock of both petrol and diesel. No queues.
- Esso on Skipton Road, low stock of both petrol and diesel with more pumps out of use.
- Shell on Ripon Road, closed without any stock of petrol or diesel.
- Co-op on Ripon Road, closed without any stock of petrol or diesel.
12pm - BP in Harrogate set to reopen after delivery
A tanker has arrived at the BP fuel station on Leeds Road, Harrogate to replenish the supplies of petrol and diesel.
The station had been closed for the past couple of days but should be ready for drivers to fill up at around 1pm.
10.30am - Boroughbridge Morrisons fuel station refills
Boroughbridge's Morrisons fuel station is now back open after running out of petrol and diesel yesterday afternoon at around 3pm.
A reader contacted us to say that it was not busy and all of the petrol and diesel pumps were in operation.
10am – Just one fuel station out in Ripon
The Spar BP petrol station on North Street is awaiting a delivery later today, but is currently without diesel or unleaded petrol.
Both of the Morrisons petrol stations, on Harrogate Road and on the supermarket site, have all pumps in operation serving diesel and unleaded fuels.
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