There is growing pressure on the authorities in eastern Spain to take action against a British extreme right-wing organisation that has been operating from an abandoned village in the region.

The group, the International Third Position, bought the village, Los Predriches, four years ago from the local authority, but it did not reveal its identity.

A BBC correspondent in Madrid says the group -- which is being monitored by British police -- is strongly anti-Semitic and anti-homosexual and believes ethnic minorities should be repatriated.

It is also said to have close links with right-wing extremists in Spain, Germany and Italy. The organisation was formed when Britain's biggest far-right group, the National Front, split in 1989.