Celebrities and sport stars join campaign to control arms.

Rugby star Gareth Thomas and drummer Stuart Cable have joined other stars making a stand against the global arms trade.

Triathlete Anneliese Heard and rugby player Alix Popham have also joined the growing number of celebrities backing the Control Arms campaign.

The international campaign backed by Oxfam is demanding an Arms Trade Treaty, to stop governments authorising the supply of weapons which can be used in wars, violent conflicts and crime.

And now striking pictures of the Welsh stars have been taken by Welsh celebrity photographer Julian Castaldi to highlight the Control Arms fight.

Cable, the former Stereophonics drummer and now a television personality, said: 'In the last five years guns have killed more than a million people and today millions of innocent men, women and children around the world are living in fear of armed violence.'

He has urged people in Wales to sign the campaign's Million Faces petition and called on the government to bring the arms trade under control.

He said: 'Now is the time to stop this international scandal once and for all.'

The campaign is headed by Oxfam, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (Iansa).

More than one million people around the world have backed the campaign including former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston and the Lord Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.