Beyoncé sets fur flying

Pop princess Beyoncé Knowles has come under fire from animal rights activists who accuse her of causing suffering to animals by wearing fur.

Campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) took out a full page advert in Billboard magazine, asking her to “do the decent, humane thing and stop wearing fur”.

The ad shows a gruesome photo of a pet dog named Jasmine crushed to death by a fur trap and a PETA spokeswoman said: “Beyoncé claims to adhere to very strong Christian values. But killing animals, trapping them and bludgeoning them to death are not very Christian acts.”