Most of her clients, including actresses Alicia Silverstone and Pamela Anderson, were happy for Brough, a vegan who doesn't eat or use products made with animal meat or by-products, to dress them in fake leather and fur apparel.

FORBES: Fancy Footwork

Mr Thomas said the conviction served as a reminder to the agricultural community that they had a duty to ensure animal carcasses and by-products were disposed of correctly.

BBC: Mid Wales

On Wednesday, Mrs Rodgers re-emphasised that the lifting of the European export ban on Northern Ireland animal products could be jeopardised by farmers' refusal to co-operate with an extended precautionary cull of sheep on the Cooley Peninsula in the Meigh restriction zone.

BBC: Farm in Thisk in Northern Ireland