Peer told not to go

A Muslim peer who travelled to Sudan to try to negotiate Britishteacher Gillian Gibbons' release was initially told by the ForeignOffice not to go, he said today.

"I called the Foreign Office and the response unit, actually,they advised me not to go," Lord Ahmed, pictured, said.

He stressed he went to Khartoum as an "individualParliamentarian," and made his own arrangements for a visa andflight.

Mrs Gibbons, 54, was imprisoned after she allowed her seven-year-old pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed.