She had a tattoo on her shoulder; drank wine with breakfast; and exercised two to three times a day on wall bars and rings in her rooms.

The city’s Central Services crew is piecing together a wall, bars and rings that will become part of an outdoor fitness court with 30 individual pieces of exercise equipment.

It was considered too dangerous to hear the case in Oslo and the court is sitting inside the prison's gymnasium, whose walls are lined with timber wall bars and a climbing wall as well as two basketball hoops.

Rachel, 16, does what every parent wishes her kid would: She deletes rude posts on her Facebook wall, bars offenders from seeing her comments and bans offensive or hyperactive Facebookers who update their status too often.

It was on a pleasant spring morning that, with my little curious friend beside me, I stood on the beach opposite the eastern promontory, that, with its stern granitic wall, bars access for ten days out of every fourteen to the wonders of the Doocot; and saw it stretching provokingly out into the green water.