Divers searched the icy waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence for a missing seal hunter today after recovering the bodies of three other hunters from a fishing boat that capsized as it was being towed by a coast guard ship.

Paul McCartney criticised Canada's annual seal hunt yesterday and asked animal lovers around the world to pressure the European Union to ban seal products.

MORRISSEY has vowed not to play in Canada in protest at the country’s “barbaric and cruel” annual seal hunt.

A day before Canada’s contentious seal hunt begins on the frozen ice floes off the Gulf of St Lawrence, Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather, made another plea to stop it.

IRISH animal rights activists yesterday backed French actress Brigitte Bardot's call to ban Canada's annual seal hunt.

Animal right activists today stepped up their campaign for a ban on seal hunting by taking their protest to the Canadian Embassy.

Former French film star Brigitte Bardot returned to Canada, joining animal conservationists in the growing protest against the country’s contentious seal hunt.

Irish animal rights activists will back French actress Brigitte Bardot’s call to ban Canada’s annual seal hunt today.

THOUSANDS of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.