Lady Gaga has had a letter sent threatening the newly opened Icecreamists parlour in London  with legal action.

The Covent Garden store, based in the Westminster district of Central London, had stocked Baby Gaga, ice-cream made from human breast milk, blended with vanilla pods and lemon.

Matt O'Conner, owner of the parlour said that he felt like a man "wielding two spoons engaged in hand-to-hand combat". Lady Gaga's letter, he said, "described me as the 'controlling mind' behind the ice-cream, which makes me sound like Blofeld, in a James Bond movie, bent on global domination."

Westminster council said it had removed the ice-cream because "selling foodstuffs made from another person's bodily fluids can lead to viruses being passed on and, in this case, potentially hepatitis".

O'Connor dismissed that claim, too. The woman who donated the breast milk, he said, "is a registered blood donor. So she has been screened both by us and a clinic."

Watch BBC News report on The Icecreamists' breast milk ice-cream below: