AN “ANTI-PERTH” website which contained pages of attacks on local politicians and business people has been removed from the internet.

The site—business perthshire.com—hit the headlines last week when the person behind the website had warned off an English prospective shop owner from relocating to Perthshire, claiming the area was rife with anti-English racism.

The person stated in a letter, which subsequently appeared on the website, that the local chamber of commerce are “bigots” and said there is widespread corruption among the positions of power.

However, furious Perth MP Pete Wishart called in the police and then contacted the site host and had it taken offline.

It was one of the highest entries when “Perthshire” and “business” were entered into the popular search engine Google.

Mr Wishart said the internet host was told the site breached their acceptable user policy.

“Businessperthshire. com masqueraded as a legitimate business site, but ran a malicious anti-Perthshire site making wild claims about anti-Englishness, corruption and cronyism,” he said.

“I am pleased that this malicious anti-Perthshire rant has been removed.

“Last week they suggested that English people were not welcome in Perthshire and that Perthshire was full of Anglophobia,” Mr Wish-art added.

“I have since reported this site to the police and I have been assured that a robust investigation will take place.

“However, I felt that prospective businesses should be immediately protected from these people and in discussions with the internet host they agreed that this type of site has no place on the web.”

However, the site’s sister site—perthshirebusiness.com—which is identical in many respects in its contempt for the council and chamber of commerce, claimed yesterday it would be running again soon on a new server.