Baroness Flather, the first Asian peer, has revealed she received a warning in the wake of the Brixton nail bomb.

She said that she had not received a letter, but had been told to be vigilant. She said she knew of at least one fellow peer who had been sent a letter.

The letters are reported to say that black parliamentarians must leave Britain by the end of the year.

"I have experienced these things in the past. You have to get on with your life", Baroness Flather said.

"If you try to be too cautious you spoil your life and they have won, because most of it is threat. But I'm not leaving. It's a pity these things happen, but they happen to other people too."

'Nonsense'

The People newspaper reported on Sunday that Scotland Yard detectives investigating some of the letters had sent them off for DNA testing.

It said that Lord Taylor of Warwick, Britain's first black peer, had revealed the letters were sent by a racist organisation called the Command Council of White Wolves.

He said: "I won't be intimidated by this kind of nonsense. If anything, it makes me more determined to fight racism."

The name White Wolves has been mentioned in connection with Saturday's bombing in Brick Lane, east London.

The BBC's Jon Silverman said it had emerged that one week before the Brixton nail bomb attack on the previous Saturday, threatening letters were sent from a racist group called the White Wolves.