Doherty arrested after V Festival
Singer Pete Doherty was arrested early on Monday on suspicion of drugs possession, Reuters reports from London.
Doherty, 28, was arrested with two others, a man and a woman, after being stopped in a car in Tower Hamlets in east London.
The troubled singer, who has had an on-off relationship with supermodel Kate Moss, had been performing with his band Babyshambles at the V Festival in Staffordshire late on Sunday.
All three were taken to an east London police station where they remain in custody.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “At 2:30 am officers in Tower Hamlets arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of possessing drugs.”
Barbers’ bill blow for taxpayers
To go about the business of making law, MPs need clerks and stenographers, telephonists and secretaries. But, if the politicians are Italian, they also require barbers, reports Guardian.
It has long been known that Italy’s long-suffering taxpayers meet the cost of trimming their parliamentarians' locks. But it has still come as a bit of a shock to them to discover just how much they fork out.
According to an investigation by the weekly L’Espresso, an Italian parliamentary hairdresser at the height of his career earns €133,000 (£90,000) — more than the pay of an appeal court judge.
The Rome parliament employs almost 3,000 people and their pay and pensions last year cost the treasury €568m.