NO apologies for publishing this upsetting picture of singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor with a dead fox.

It is part of a counter-attack against the fur trade by animal protection organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

It's a powerful image and a strong message about the real price of animal fur.

The subject is controversial and everyone has his or her own view. Mine is that, when there are so many man-made alternatives to real fur, killing animals for vanity is barbaric.

Man wore skins for warmth when we still lived in caves. People who trade in them -- and those who wear them -- still belong there.