A new restaurant owner in the city has bowed to pressure from animal rights protesters and agreed to take foie gras off his menu.

Members of the Bath Activist Network (BAN) staged a protest outside the Minibar in John Street on Friday to try to persuade the venue to stop selling the French dish. It was the group's second protest outside the restaurant.

The pate is produced by force-feeding geese large amounts of food so their livers swell to up to 10 times their normal size.

The foie gras served at the Minibar was imported from France.

Following the protest on Friday, the owner Hein van Vorstenbosch decided to remove the pate from his menu with immediate effect.

There were 14 protesters who turned up to the two-hour demonstration.

A spokesman for the group said: "We are pleased this was done in an amicable way.

"We are not against people eating meat and do not want everyone to be vegetarians, although that would be good.

"It is more about the additional cruelty in foie gras, which is just unnecessary and has no place in civilised society.

"The amount of support we get when we hold these protests shows most people agree with us."

Earlier this year BAN held a protest outside Beaujolais in Chapel Row.

The restaurant subsequently removed foie gras from the menu.

The owner did not want to comment.