BUSINESS figures were rounded up and put behind bars yesterday.

Executives from Teesside companies NTL, TFM radio, Specsavers, Barclaycard, Hillcarter Hotel, Springs Health Club, Chilli Media, Staples Superstore and others shared a cell at the BT Cellnet Riverside Stadium at Middlesbrough.

The stunt was organised to raise funds for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The detainees were not released until friends and colleagues handed over £500 in bail, which went straight into the charity's coffers