{"id":538017,"date":"2026-04-18T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538017\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:10:09","slug":"how-oswestry-restaurateur-overcame-racism-to-become-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538017\/","title":{"rendered":"How Oswestry restaurateur overcame racism to become a &#8216;legend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The owner of an Indian restaurant has been preparing to celebrate 50 years in business but says it was a tough road to reach the milestone amid early racism &#8211; for which some abusive customers have since apologised.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Miah came to the UK in 1968 from what is now Bangladesh. He was just 12 years old when he arrived on his own, and lived with his uncle in Telford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 1960s, the government invited people from Commonwealth countries to come to Britain to plug labour gaps but they were not always welcomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a lot of prejudice,&#8221; Miah said. &#8220;When you were walking in town, you&#8217;d be getting names called.&#8221; But half a century later, he said he had become a local legend to some people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of an Indian restaurant has been preparing to celebrate 50 years in business but says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-538017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}