A former British home secretary and the most senior judge in England and Wales were among guests paying £50 pounds to spend a night behind bars last night.
Michael Howard, who favoured longer jail sentences, and Lord Woolf were among guests at Brixton prison in south London. As a special concession, Lord Woolf was allowed to share his cell - measuring three metres by two metres and containing bunk beds, a lavatory and a hand basin - with his wife, Marguerite, a magistrate.
Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei's estranged brother, under investigation over the use of state funds, returned yesterday to the sultanate to clear his name.
Al Pacino is to shoot a film in Umm el-Fahm, an Arab-Israeli town in which rioting erupted last weekend over an Israeli army decision to confiscate a plot of land to make a new firing range.
The town is to be transformed for the occasion into a stronghold of the Lebanese Shia guerrilla group Hizbullah, and Pacino is to play an international journalist who meets a Hizbullah leader .