A museum has been accused of cowering to an anti-Semitic mob by postponing their Jewish exhibition.

Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth, Dorset, was due to open an exhibition in November about the growth of the seaside town's Jewish community between 1880 and 2020.

But they have announced that the exhibition will no longer begin this year due to the 'potential risks at a sensitive time'.

The news is a further blow to the town's Jewish population following a spate of anti-semitic attacks in the genteel East Cliff suburb of the town last month.

They included a teenager being shot in the head with an air rifle while walking to a synagogue and Nazi swastikas being daubed over several homes.