The GSPCA says a substance they believe is palm oil - which can be very poisonous to dogs - has been spotted at Grandes Rocques and Saline Bay.

Warning issued to dog owners in Guernsey as poisonous palm oil seen on coastline

Islanders are asked to not touch any grey, cream or white fatty substances they may come find.

Palm oil washes up at Pembroke in Guernsey

All 44 present States Members voted to approve the proposition. 

Lumps of the waxy substance have washed up at Whitsand Bay in Cornwall.

Connétable Karen Shenton-Stone has submitted a proposition to the States to consider three steps to reduce the use of palm oil across the island.

There is an urgent warning to dog walkers in parts of Cornwall after large amounts of "lethal" palm oil washed up on beaches. 

If dogs ingest this, it can cause sickness, diarrhoea, dehydration and, in extreme cases, pancreatitis.

Dog owners are being warned to keep clear with sightings of the substance has found on beaches in St Ives in Portheras.

The commercial, starring Emma Thompson and produced by Greenpeace, was adjudged to break rules on political advertising.

The supermarket chain said it was opting to remove the ingredient from its foods by the end of 2018 warning that it drives deforestation.