Doherty planning quiet New Year's Eve getaway in the Wiltshire country

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Pete Doherty's efforts to curb his frenetic rock 'n' roll lifestyle might be working.

The troubled singer is currently enjoying peace and solitude in the wilds of Wiltshire, where he is renting a nine-bedroom mansion from the Earl of Cardigan.

And life there appears to agree with the 28-year-old musician, who is planning a New Year's Eve bash for a few friends.

"Pete wants to spend the evening away from London. He is organising a get-together with a jamming session at his house in Marlborough," my mole tells me.

"You can never be quite sure that Pete will stick to his plans but he insists he wants it to be low-key."

Doherty has been having a low-key Christmas this year after breaking up with Kate Moss in July.

Last year, the musician spent the Yuletide season with Moss and her daughter Lila Grace in her Cotswolds home.

However, this year Moss had replaced Doherty with another rocker love, Jamie Hince of The Kills.

While Doherty is looking forward to the New Year, bookies William Hill say the singer is joint favourite with his pal Amy Winehouse to be jailed in early 2008.

Doherty was on remand last year and faces jail again unless he stays clean.

Winehouse's father Mitch admitted earlier this month he was furious when he found out his daughter was friends with Doherty.

He told Grazia magazine: "I do worry about people like Pete Doherty though. He's a scumbag.

"I flipped when I saw him sitting with Amy backstage at her Brixton gig. That night I went crazy.

"My wife thought I was going to have a heart attack, I was apoplectic."