DISTRAUGHT Holby City star George Calil last night paid an emotional visit to his critically ill girlfriend Laura Sadler.

The weeping actor spent a few minutes with his 22-year-old co-star, who plunged 40ft from a balcony at his second floor flat.

Criminals are being sentenced to longer jail terms than before amid political and media pressure for judges to impose tougher punishments.

Petty offenders are now three times more likely to receive custodial sentences than they were in 1991, while nearly all convicted offenders can expect harsher treatment.

Lord Archer out in July

Lord Archer will be freed from jail next month after being granted parole at the earliest possible date.

The Parole Board said the disgraced Tory peer who has served nearly two years of a four year sentence for perjury, will be granted parole from Saturday July 19.

It was understood that Lord Archer was likely to be released from Hollesley Bay open prison at Woodbridge, Suffolk, on Monday July 21.

Sadie's bruises

SADIE Frost puts on a brave smile as she takes a break in the sun after her furious bust-up with hubby Jude Law...but does little to hide some nasty bruises on her body.

Sadie revealed the marks, on her right arm and beneath her shoulder, as she took a dip in a pool in Cyprus.

She jetted there with a pal and her three kids after the angry exchange with Hollywood hunk Jude at her £2million north London home.

Consumer slowdown fuels calls for rate cut
Slower retail sales growth and weak order books from manufacturers fuelled fears of a marked slowdown in consumer spending and prompting speculation of a rate cut.

BEN AFFLECK is to star in two comedies - Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past and Sex Talk.

Ghosts is about a bachelor visited by the spirits of former girlfriends at his brother's wedding.

Real life former flames GWYNETH PALTROW, and SANDRA BULLOCK, are not in it.