In brief: Doherty handed jail sentence

Troubled British songwriter Pete Doherty has been sentenced to 14 weeks in jail for using drugs and violating his probation... Naomi Campbell has been banned from British Airways after she allegedly spat in a police officer's face at Heathrow's Terminal 5 last week… John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney's daughter Stella McCartney, Ringo Starr's wife Barbara Bach and Beatles producer Sir George Martin all attended the funeral of the former 'fifth Beatle' Neil Aspinall, but neither of the surviving Beatles were present… After giving his largest-ever painting to Tate Britain – his 40ft landscape Bigger Trees near Warter – David Hockney has said he is considering leaving a large number of his unsold works to public collections on his death… The American playwright Tracy Letts has won the 2008 Pulitzer prize for drama for his play August: Osage County, a current hit on Broadway... The children's TV presenter Mark Speight whose fiancee, fellow presenter Natasha Collins, was found dead after taking cocaine and sleeping tablets, has gone missing, according to Scotland Yard… Madonna's 11th studio album Hard Candy has received three out of five stars in its first British review: Times critic Peter Paphides called it "no disaster" but complained of "a sequenced avalanche of beats"…