Prince Harry is off the hook over the alleged shooting of two rare birds of prey on the Queen's Sandringham estate. The Crown Prosecution Service announced yesterday that nobody was being charged in connection with the apparent killing of the protected hen harriers. Harry, a family friend and a gamekeeper were questioned by police last week. But despite an intensive police inquiry, no charges could be brought because "the bodies of the hen harriers have not been found".

While some local authorities take a dim view of the graffiti artist Banksy - the anonymous painter who sells art to celebrities while continuing to spray-paint murals on the streets of East London - Islington council is taking a more lenient view. The council's head of environment has a list of murals by the artist, whose works now fetch millions, to stop them being painted over by clean-up units.

Radiohead's 'honesty box' experiment - which allowed fans to pay what they wanted for downloading their new album In Rainbows - has not been a lucrative success for the Oxford band. Only 38 per cent of the 1.2m people who downloaded the album last month paid for it - at an average sum of £2.90.