A couple launched a vile racist tirade against a British NHS nurse during a shocking attack as they walked their dog in a park in West Yorkshire.

The couple, believed to be in their 60s, demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water and grabbed her hair during the assault at Manor Heath Park in Halifax on Thursday.

Apple Moorhouse, from Huddersfield, was racially abused alongside her parents and six and 11-year-old daughters, after she asked the couple to control their dog which made her youngest daughter feel 'unsafe and scared'.

The nurse and British resident of 15 years ended up in A&E for a pulled rib and has bruising on her hands after being grabbed by the hair and pushed to the floor by the woman, who also claimed to be a nurse.

She told the Daily Mail she now fears returning to the park with her children.