Troubled rocker Pete Doherty upset inmates after he was banned from a recent prison gig - they hoped he would help them with their drug addictions.

Britain's Home Office is to change the rules on electronic tagging of prisoners after confirmation Maxine Carr has applied for early release under the scheme.

An independent inquiry into the death of doctor Harold Shipman was beginning today at the prison where he died.

A warder at North Sea Camp prison in Britain has resigned after it emerged he had lunch with Jeffrey Archer during the disgraced Tory peer's day release from jail, the UK Prison Service said today.