A government minister has called far-right online chat rooms exposed by the Manchester Evening News 'disturbing' and disgusting'.

Science, innovation and technology secretary Peter Kyle has praised the M.E.N. investigation which exposed the forums filled with hate, promising that action will be taken on any illegal content. The Labour minister also said 'it's great' that there have been arrests.

It comes after police investigating neo-Nazis who were caught celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday in an Oldham pub arrested nine suspects following a series of dramatic dawn raids in May which uncovered an arsenal of replica guns and a Nazi-era gas canister.

All of the suspects have been bailed for three months under strict conditions which ban contact and gatherings in large groups.

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