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Police are investigating after cards reading "No More Polish Vermin" were allegedly posted through letterboxes following Britain's decision to leave the EU.

The laminated cards, printed in English and Polish, were discovered by members of the public on Friday morning in Huntingdon, Cambs., an area which where 54.2 per cent backed Brexit and 45.8 per cent voted to stay in the EU.

A number of the laminated cards were found near St Peter's School in St Peter's Road, Huntingdon at around 8.30am by a teenager who attends the school.

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More cards were found pinned under rocks so they would not blow away on people's doorsteps in parts of the town where a number of immigrant families live.

And in a separate incident, there were claims the words "Go Home" was smeared over the front of a Polish Community Centre in Hammersmith, London.

MP Greg Hands said if the reports were true, it was "an unspeakable crime and is indescribably awful."

The Met Police said they were investigating an alleged incident of 'racially motivated criminal damage'.

One woman who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals said her disabled, elderly mother found one of the 'No More Polish Vermin' cards on her doorstep.

The 37-year-old mother-of-three said: "I went to pick my mum up around 9am and was disgusted to see what somebody had left on her door step.

"My mum has a few Polish neighbours who are very nice and she was very upset to see these kinds of messages.

"It is sick to think somebody would go to the trouble of printing, lamenting and distributing them."

The woman said she felt "very angry" that somebody had gone to all that effort even producing a Polish translation of the message on the back of the cards.

She added: "Regardless of what you think about the EU this kind of thing is unacceptable."

The police are now investigating the incident.

A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police said: "If there's anybody who has got any information about the source of it, they can get in touch."

If you have any information about where the cards came from, call Cambridgeshire Police on 101.