This is the shocking moment a woman launched a " racist " outburst at takeaway staff - after being accused of vaping while she waited for food.

The video, shared on social media, shows the woman in a rant at the Medo Kebab House in Southport, Merseyside.

The Liverpool ECHO reported that she had been using an electric cigarette inside the takeaway, before shouting a racist slur at the staff as she left.

When a member of staff hands over her food, she can be heard saying "remember he's in my country, not his", to which a staff member can be heard to reply "it's your country, no need to be racist".

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Owner Cihan Erdogan, 42, has lived in the UK for 23 years since moving here from Turkey.

He was working behind the counter when the woman went in to the shop last night.

Speaking to the ECHO, he said: “I’ve been in this country almost 23 years now, so most of my life I’ve spent here and I’ve been serving Southport people most of my life.

“When the credit crunch started I almost went bankrupt and my parents sold their house in Turkey and paid the money into my business here.

“I work very hard, like 15 to 18 hour days sometimes - it’s very hard to pay bills and everybody thinks foreign people come here to take money and take benefits but it’s not like that.

“I came to the UK when I was young and since then I’ve never taken benefits.”

Medo kebab house was nominated for an award for the best takeaway outside London in 2015 and 2014.

However, Cihan said he’s noticed racist comments and abuse getting worse, despite having lived and worked in Southport for years.

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He said: “There are lovely people here, that’s why we moved here from London and I’ve been in business here 16 or 17 years.”

Cihan, who has a British passport and considers himself to be English, said the racist rant was “upsetting”.

He said: “She tried to grab something behind the till, a piece of paper or a pen, and I told her not to.

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“We said ‘please just ask us, we can give you whatever you want’ and she was saying, ‘This is my own country - this is mine, you are foreign, you can’t say that to me’.”

Cihan shared the video on social media so customers could see the abuse his staff had to deal with.

The incident was branded “vile” and “disgusting” online in responses posted on Cihan’s post.