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A Ugandan Asian who settled in Leicester recalls the racism she experienced in the city in the 1970s.

"I came to know that I was on his hit list and I would've been bumped off."

Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has said he was "angry and saddened" by the council's actions at the time, while another councillor called the advert "foolish and crude"."They were unwise, politically misled, in taking that out, that advert," Mr Moghal, who lives in the Stretton Hall area, says."Because of that advert, many Uganda Asians came to Leicester to see what was so special about Leicester that they were being debarred from coming here.

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