'Abhorrent' racist slurs and 'vile' symbols have been removed from an Ashington street.
Locals were appalled by the disgusting graffiti, which included swastikas, the name Adolf Hitler and racist insults chalked on a pavement.
Chelsea-Kavana Prendergast spotted the graffiti on Maple Street in the Northumberland town, daubed on the pavement close to a shop.
She said: "Absolutely sickens me, the fact I’ve found this not far from where I live.
"Still, in 2020, we live in a world where people can’t wrap their small little minds around the fact people have different colour skin or were born in different in country."
The deputy leader of Ashington Town Council, Liam Lavery, said he was shocked when he heard about the graffiti and visited the street on Thursday night to remove it.
Coun Lavery said: "It’s absolutely one of the worst things you could do.
"Our grandparents and great grandparents fought against Hilter and the Nazis and people are writing this stuff in the middle of Ashington.
"It’s absolutely abhorrent.
“When I first saw it online I had to question where it was, actually, because I’ve never seen anything like this around here.”
Campaign group Stand Up To Racism North East said the graffiti showed that the UK has "a long way to go" to combat racism.
The group's supporters on Facebook shared their anger at the vile slurs.
One person said it was particularly jarring to see such images in Ashington just weeks after the town united in grief at the funeral of local footballing hero Jack Charlton.
As well as being a world cup winning defender, 'Big Jack', one of the town's most popular and famous sons, was a vocal anti-racist, who joined Brian Clough in supporting the Anti-Nazi League in their opposition to the National Front in 1977.
