Police have arrested and interviewed Ruth Turner, Tony Blair's director of government relations. She was questioned over allegations involving the cash-for-honours affair, and on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

She was later released.

An American man has survived a 17-storey drop, after accidentally falling through a window in a Minneapolis hotel.

A motorist has had a 12-month ban for drinking and driving overturned by the High Court after arguing that the reading was pushed over the limit because he burped during the breath test.