Brummies backed after 'vomit-inducing accent' note

Faith Atkins pointed out Barmouth was one of the closest seaside towns to Birmingham

A West Midlands woman who runs a hotel on the Welsh coast says Birmingham people are not brash, after a note with slurs about them was stuck to a house in mid-Wales.

The note posted in Aberystwyth claimed "low-life" from the Midlands had ruined the area.

It is being treated as a hate crime.

Faith Atkins, originally from Sutton Coldfield, who runs a Barmouth hotel, hoped Birmingham people were "not put off by one person's opinion".

Dyfed-Powys Police said the note was added to a property in Iorwerth Avenue, Aberystwyth, on Monday night.

It urged people to take their "vomit-inducing accents back to Brummyland and please take a few thousand" others with them.

Ms Atkins, from Min-y-Mor hotel in Barmouth, said it welcomed guests from all over the UK.

The hotelier thought Brummies had traditionally come to one of the closest seaside towns to Birmingham and "that will continue".

Faith Atkins said the hotel welcomed people from all over the UK

Asked if those going there were loud and brash, she replied: "I don't think so. I mean obviously the Brummie accent's very recognisable.

"We get lots of people from Liverpool as well as other areas, Stoke, so they're all sort of recognisable accents... but it's not necessarily a bad thing."

This note with insults about people from Birmingham was stuck to a house

A director and owner of Vale Holiday Parks' Clarach Bay site close to Aberystwyth, Thomas Scarrott, said he was "very, very disgusted" by the letter's content.

He added: "We've got 6,000 students from across the globe in the university. We welcome families from as far as Syria and the Ukraine and people from the Midlands.

"We've always welcomed them with open arms and long may it continue."

Transport for Wales had advertised their trains to Aberystwyth including one advert in Birmingham city centre

Mr Scarrott's grandparents moved to the area from Leicestershire in 1967 and the family business now comprises 14 holiday parks.

He said: "There are a lot of families in this community who have moved from the Black Country, for example, who have fully integrated with the community.

"They put their children into Welsh-speaking schools when they don't have to.

Thomas Scarrott is part of a family business run by himself, two brothers and his parents

"I love it in the summer especially when you're walking along the promenade in Aberystwyth or in Clarach or even in Borth and you hear that array of accents from across the Midlands.

"I think it's one of the most welcoming accents and friendly accents you can hope to hear."