A hotel chef has been fired after bragging on his Instagram account about how he enjoyed secretly feeding meat to vegans.

Alex Lambert was fired from his job as head chef at the Littleover Lodge Hotel in Derby, when it was discovered he had claimed it was a "personal favourite" thing to feed meat products to vegans.

The 30-year-old's contract was terminated after vegan campaigners lobbied the hotel , accusing him of abusing the human rights of those who choose not to eat meat products.

Mr Lambert insisted his comments on Instagram were untrue, and he made them to "p--- off" a vegan during an argument about meat-eating.