And finally… tight security catches phone thief and air rage scriptwriter lost the plot

Ionut Tudorache, 25, had only been in the UK for a few days when he was caught by security staff at a Kasabian concert at Bournemouth International Centre in November last year with the haul of phones.

Stuart Ellacott, prosecuting, said staff were on the lookout for thieves following similar incidents at the band’s previous shows.

He said: “The defendant drew the attention of the security guards by not making eye contact.

“He was stopped and searched, and the mobile phones were found in a pair of tights he was wearing underneath his trousers.”

Nicholas Robinson, in mitigation, said Mr Turdorache “was not a pickpocket” who had stolen the phones.

He explained that his client “met two Romanian gentlemen, he had been in London for three or four days and he didn’t know anyone.

“He came down to Bournemouth with them.

“He was told to wear the tights because it would be cold on the south coast.”

The recent immigrant only realised what was going on, his lawyer said, when the men began putting the phones down his trousers.

“He came here hoping for a better life,” he said.

Mr Tudorache admitted 22 counts of theft of a mobile phone.

Judge John Harrow said: “You had been in this country a matter of days before you broke the law.

“You must have known that you were being dishonest.”

A Scottish script writer turned the air blue on a flight bound for Glasgow after flying into a rage because he was not served butter with his meal.

Former solicitor James McIntyre, who has written scripts for EastEnders and River City was flying back from Tenerife when the incident happened.

He became enraged when the meal he was given came without any dairy spread.

Paisley Sheriff Court heard how cabin crew had to alert the captain because they were so alarmed by his behaviour. He then informed the police.

Mr McIntyre, 58, told the cabin crew: “I never got any f***ing butter in that box.”

After being told the meals did not come with butter, he went berserk.

It was stated he had been suffering from hunger and exhaustion.

He admitted behaving in an abusive and aggressive manner in breach of theAir Navigation Order of 2009 in August last year and was fined £800.