Street star films bearskin protest ad

CORONATION Street star Kate Ford is urging the Ministry of Defence to stop using bearskin for the Queen's Guards' caps.

The actress, who plays the character Tracy Barlow in the soap, said she was angry about the suffering that bears in Canada endured.

She appears in an advert, shot by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, showing a picture of the star next to the slogan: "Bare Skin, Not Bearskin".