No finds in jail lockdown search

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Specially-trained staff and dogs were used for the search at the category C HMP Featherstone in Staffordshire after a suspected security breach.

The Ministry of Justice said it followed information received by authorities at the 615-cell prison.

The Prison Service refused to confirm media reports that the move was related to the suspected smuggling of two guns into the jail.

The prison, near Wolverhampton, houses inmates who are serving sentences ranging from three years to life.

A Prison Service spokeswoman said the lockdown - a thorough search of a jail while inmates are in their cells - was concluded and "no illegal items were found".

Steve Bostock, national executive officer for the Prison Officers' Association for West Midlands, said: "These things do happen. You get intelligence from prisoners that is sometimes not worth the paper it's written on, but often it is.

"And when you are told of a gun then you have to take it seriously."