Madonna wins fight to ban ramblers

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie have won a battle to ban ramblers from walking on land on their English rural estate over the winter - delaying any access to February at the earliest.

The singer, who fears her privacy will be compromised by walkers being near her mansion in Ashcombe, Wiltshire, has won the right to declare her land a commercial shoot, thus temporarily exempting it from the UK's 'right to roam' legislation.