A Tyne Tees Television Northern Life report in which Alistair Pirrie speaks with Mr and Mrs Henderson, owners of The Arches Petrol Company garage at South Shields about the local councils plans to close the road outside their business for two years. They are very concerned as it would likely ruin their business. Cars drive past The Arches Petrol Company garage at South Shields. The owners of the business Mr and Mrs Henderson come out onto the forecourt and while Mrs Henderson filling a car...

A Tyne Tees Television Northern Life report in which Alistair Pirrie speaks with Mr and Mrs Henderson, owners of The Arches Petrol Company garage at South Shields about the local councils plans to close the road outside their business for two years. They are very concerned as it would likely ruin their business. Cars drive past The Arches Petrol Company garage at South Shields. The owners of the business Mr and Mrs Henderson come out onto the forecourt and while Mrs Henderson filling a car with petrol her husband cleans the cars windscreen. A sign reading ‘Road Closed’ has been placed across the road from the garage and no traffic passes by. A second sign this time reading ‘Road Clear’ is now placed outside the garage and traffic once again moves past. The Henderson’s work together to clean one of their Shell petrol pumps. As traffic turns right at a nearby roundabout, Mrs Henderson scanning the horizon. Again, the couple work together to fill a car with petrol and to clean its windscreen. Reporter Alistair Pirrie speaks with the Henderson’s about the fact that the road outside their garage is proposed to be closed for the next two years which will ruin their business. They are looking for compensation from the council but have gotten nowhere. They explain that this is a new business and if they’d known before hand about the extended road closure, they would never have brought the garage.