JAVED Akhtar and Amanda Hall are good friends and neighbours who live in the same small part of Lockwood.

But they are two of the people at the centre of a row over election leaflets.

Only one of them received a BNP leaflet in the post last weekend.

Mrs Hall, who lives on Swan Lane, received a flyer from the party's Crosland Moor and Netherton candidate, Skye Turner, on Saturday.

But Mr Akhtar, who lives just yards away on Northfield Grove, did not.

Mrs Hall said: "I got it in the second- class post on Saturday - as did other white people in the area.

"But when I spoke to Javed and other Asian people round here they told me they hadn't received the leaflet."

Mrs Hall said the flyer, publicising today's Kirklees Council elections had racist undertones.

In part Mr Turner's flyer reads: "Like most people in Huddersfield I don't want New Labour sending 'asylum seekers' here.

"We only need to look at Dewsbury, Bradford and Beeston to see what effect 'diversity' has.

"I do not want Huddersfield to look like one of these places in a few years."

Mrs Hall, a mother-of-one who has lived in Lockwood for eight years, said: "We all live in peace here. We don't want the BNP in our area."

Mr Akhtar, who has lived in the area for 20 years, agrees.

He said: "We don't need this racial incitement here.

"Irrespective of background, we all get along well here. Even during the Bradford riots there were no incidents."

When the Examiner investigated the incident the first three white residents we encountered at Swan Court all said they had received the leaflet.

But just across Swan Lane, on Bentley Street, the first three Asian residents who answered their doors said they hadn't got the flyer.

However, white chip shop worker Linda Shaw, who also lives on Bentley Street, said she received the flyer through the post on Saturday.

BNP Huddersfield organiser Robert Walker defended the party's election tactics.

He said: "We go and leaflet an area to get an idea of who might be supportive.

"Unless we can engage an ethnic minority it's a waste of time. We might as well go to the white voter down the street."

He added: "I trust Skye's judgement because he's streetwise.

"If we went into parts of Crosland Moor to leaflet there would be rioting like in Bradford."