SOME petrol stations have run dry in Yorkshire, while others have been inundated with drivers hoping to fill up.

In Ilkley, where there are two petrol stations, one had run dry while, on the opposite side of the road, queues were forming at the second station.

A motorist was asked to leave the forecourt of one after he snatched the pump out of the hand of a female driver, an eyewitness said.

Elsewhere, queues were reported in Huddersfield as some pumps ran dry, and across forecourts in Leeds.

At a Shell forecourt in Moortown, Leeds, there was a queue of 20 cars.

One van driver said he had been waiting for 30 minutes to get fuel. Only four of the 12 pumps were dispensing fuel as motorists waited patiently.

In Harrogate, a forecourt on the outskirts of the town had run out of fuel by 11.30am.

In Rotherham, there was a queue for fuel at Asda in the Eastwood area of the town.

A marshal in a fluorescent jacket was directing motorists as they queued for pumps.

There were six or seven vehicles waiting to get into the forecourt, an eyewitness said.

Motoring organisations laid the blame for the panic buying firmly at the door of the government.

AA president Edmund King said: "There is no fuel tanker strike and therefore if drivers followed normal fuel buying patterns there would be no fuel shortage whatsoever.

"We now have self-inflicted shortages due to poor advice about topping up the tank and hoarding in jerry cans. This in turn has led to localised shortages, queues and some profiteering at the pumps."