Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner has been frustrated in his attempt to make the highest ever skydive.

Unfavourable winds at Roswell, New Mexico, have prevented the launch of the helium balloon that was to take him to more than 120,000ft (36.5km).

Meteorologists say Thursday now looks to be next best day for a record bid.

One of Britain's few black women judges, who shot to prominence six years ago with a "misery memoir" about her tough early life, has been arrested and questioned by police.

Constance Briscoe, 55, was arrested in Clapham, south-west London, at the weekend by officers from Kent and taken to a police station for interview. She was later released on bail pending further inquiries.

Kent police declined to name the arrested woman or say why she had been arrested. "A 55-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday in Clapham, south London, interviewed by officers and bailed pending further inquiries," a spokeswoman said.

We've seen Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder going forth in the First World War, ruffed-up and ruffled as a courtier to Elizabeth I and trussed up in a wig as a stroppy Prince Edmund in the middle ages. But a `lost' episode due to be revealed this week presents the character as we've never seen him before: Edmund Blackadder the Bethlehem innkeeper.

The unfinished script was written as a Christmas special in 1988 by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton but was never filmed. The story featured Blackadder's haphazard servant Baldrick (played in the long-running series by Tony Robinson), some of the more comical moments in the nativity story, the Three Kings, and a talking turkey.

A judge in Hull has settled down with his law books to try to find the answer to the famous old question in the sea shanty: what shall we do with the drunken sailor?

Hull Crown court heard that the fate of Viatcheslav Poleshchuk, who crashed twice into Goole lock gates on the Humber and then asked police in a vodka-slurred voice "Can I have another go?", posed a legal brainteaser.

The estuary's combined ports are the busiest in the country, and a skipper with a bottle of vodka freshly inside him, as Poleshchuk admitted he had, is no laughing matter in charge of a 30,000 tonne scrap metal carrier in such waters. The 44-year-old captain was more than four times over the drink-drive limit with 157 milligrams of alcohol in his blood compared to the legal maximum of 35 when he was arrested last month.

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The other finalists named yesterday (9 October) for the European Parliament prize are Ales Bialiatski, an imprisoned Belarussian opposition figure; and Iranians Nasrin Sotoudeh, an imprisoned lawyer and human rights advocate, and Jafar Panahi, a film director.

The laureate will be announced on 26 October following a decision of the Conference of Presidents. The winner will receive €50,000 and be invited to attend the award ceremony on 12 December in Strasbourg.

The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in 1988 by the European Parliament (see background). Recent recipients were the Russian civil rights society Memorial in 2009, the Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas in 2010, and in 2011, representatives of the Arab people in recognition of their role in the Arab Spring.