EXCLUSIVE: Shire Garden Centre claims profits hit by AWPR

For drivers, the opening of the AWPR between Blackdog and Goval overnight might spell the end of traffic headaches, but for one Aberdeenshire business - the struggles continue.

Parkhill Garden Centre, right next to the road has seen stock damaged during the road's construction.

Managing Director, Gordon McGillivray said:

“We’ve always been for the AWPR from the very beginning. But we are being heavily impacted on by salt spray from the overbridge. The problem is the salt will come down onto the plants and disfigure them and even cause their death – making them unfit for sale.

“As we are just now, we’re in limbo and can’t move forward. Our only hope now is to relocate away from the AWPR.

Gordon says he's faced major losses since construction started - for the first time in his 34 year years in business at the roadside.

The stretch opened in time for rush hour this morning, but there were no queues to be seen: