Fuel crisis in pictures: Petrol panic buying hits Newcastle and North Tyneside

Petrol stations across the land have been closing their lanes and their pumps amid the UK’s latest fuel crisis.

This weekend panic buying has set in nationwide as a major disruption to fuel deliveries has seen stations go short.

BP and Tesco have announced closures, while supermarkets such as Morrisons have also been hit.

What does the situation look like in Newcastle and North Tyneside, though?

Here’s some pictures highlighting petrol panic scenes from the North East.

Towards the coast, the petrol station at North Shields was shut to commuters, while queues stretched out into the supermarket car park and main road in Tynemouth at Morrisons.

The usually very busy Benton Asda unmanned station cut like a ghost town on Saturday afternoon, with drivers being turned away by barriers across the lands.

A few miles away at the Killingworth Centre, the Morrisons petrol station was closed but an fuel lorry was filling up depleted stocks at around midday.

Things weren’t so positive elsewhere, though, as the Shell Garage next to Gosforth Park, just off Sandy Lane, was open, but without unleaded E10 petrol.