The granddaughter of a woman who was evicted from the Chagos Islands by the British has been threatened with deportation from the UK, the Guardian newspaper reports.

Taniella Moustache's grandmother was forced to leave the Chagos Islands in 1971 by the British and she settled in the Seychelles, the Guardian says.

Her mother, Jeanette Valentin, who holds British citizenship, then went to live in Britain and she was later joined by her daughters.

But Ms Moustache could be deported and needs to raise money to help fight for the right to stay in the UK.

“[The UK government] removed my family [from the Chagos Islands] and put a military base there but now don’t want my kids to be British citizens,” Ms Valentin is quoted by the Guardian as saying.

It is now half a century since the UK took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the entire population, before inviting the United States to build a military base on Diego Garcia, one of the larger atolls.