Hit comedy series Little Britain has returned to the screens after offensive blackface scenes were cut by producers from the show.

However, there have been concerns raised over a handful of fringe non-PC characters who remain in the latest iteration of the show.

Earlier this week, the controversial Noughties sketch comedy was restored to iPlayer with scenes in which actors wore blackface or yellowface edited out.

Nonetheless, many people on social media have since pointed out examples of offensive scenes that were left in the re-edited series.

Journalist Anita Singh shared screenshots from a sketch in which a character played by Walliams is describing an Asian student over the phone.

The character says the student has "yellowish skin" and a "slight smell of soy sauce", referring to him as "the Ching-Chong Chinaman".

Other "offensive" characters to have remained in the series include Anne, a nonverbal patient at a psychiatric hospital, and Vicky Pollard, a teenage mother whose depiction in the series has been criticised as "classist".

While some have called the show repellant and nasty, others have argued that the series' offending content should be left intact, claiming that it was intended to satirise prejudice rather than perpetuate it.

"Personally I don't think Little Britain should be edited, wrote one person. "It was one of the most popular shows on the nation's biggest television station.

"People need to be reminded of what they found funny in the 00s. And stop pretending that we were some sort of tolerant, accepting, nation",they added.