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When you and your partner fell in love, was race an issue? The Â鶹Éç 2 TV show 'Race Britannia' looked at the history of mixed race communities in Britain, focusing on romances between British women workers and foreign seaman during World War I and an increase in interracial couples as a result of mass migration after World War II. Significantly, it showed there has been an increase in interracial relationships in Britain, particularly between the Afro-Caribbean and white population. Also mixed relationships, between blacks and whites, have been generally viewed by the British media as progressive for race relations. But are there still reservations that mixed relationships either shouldn't happen, or just don't work? Â鶹Éç Leicester reporter Kevin Ncube joins local couple Gina and Simon Johnson for their interracial wedding, and hears views from the guests on mixed marriages.