A billboard poster for G-string undies featuring four women's bottoms was damaged close to a Bradford mosque.

Protesters ripped the Sloggi poster in outrage at the location on Manningham Lane.

It is the latest in a series of incidents where posters have provoked outcry across the city.

In 2000 a shampoo advert showing a woman looking down her bikini bottoms was vandalised and in the same year a bra advert in Barkerend Road featuring tennis pin-up Anna Kournikova was daubed with paint by protesters.

A Bradford father-of-two called on the Advertising Standards Authority to be given the power to see all adverts ahead of them going up across the country.

Tansar Hussain, of Clayton, whose children are aged four and two, said: "They have the power over the TV adverts, they should do the same over what goes up on advertising hoardings. Or they should see the location of them at the least.

Mr Hussain had complained to the ASA about the "Love your bum" adverts for Velvet toilet paper which features baked buttocks but the watchdog rejected the complaints on the grounds the advert passed all the criteria.

Sher Azam, president of the Bradford Council of Mosques, said: "It is not because they are near mosques and it is not just the Muslim community which is offended. They are degrading to women wherever they are located and it is sad in this day and age to find we have come so low."

A spokesman for the ASA confirmed one complaint from the Bradford area had been received along with one from the Midlands about the Sloggi advert - which was first distributed last year and had passed its criteria for acceptability.

She said if people got in touch with the advertising hoarding owners about the sensitivity of the site they usually reacted positively to the complaint and removed it.