Troubled singer Amy Winehouse yesterday headed straight for a champagne spa after spending a night in police cells for cannabis possession.

Norwegian police raided her hotel room and found a small amount of marijuana after staff tipped them off about the smell of the drug wafting along the corridor.

She and husband Blake Fielder-Civil were arrested at 7pm on Thursday in the city of Bergen and released twelve hours later. They were each fined £350. During her spell in custody, Miss Winehouse had to strip naked following routine Norwegian police procedure.

Immediately after her release yesterday morning she checked herself into one of the city’s top spas - and promptly eased her woes by ordering several bottles of champagne, according to reports.

The couple were arrested alongside an unnamed 24-year-old man after being found with 7.1 grams [(0.25oz] of marijuana in their hotel suite at the five star Radisson SAS Hotel in Bergen.

Police were alerted after the hotel’s head of security complained about the scent of cannabis lingering in the corridor leading to the couple’s room.

The trio were held until 7am before being fined and released, prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe confirmed. The unidentified British man was fined £240.

‘We had a tip from a good source which led to police checking up on the tip,’ Mr Lothe added.

‘They were in a hotel room in the centre of Bergen.

‘They signed a ticket - a fine - at the police station. It is a closed case.’ Although no further action will be taken against the 24-year-old platinum-selling star, police sources have revealed the alarming extent of her inebriation.

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Indeed, when uniformed officers knocked on the couple’s hotel room door, she opened it barely capable of speech and was unable to walk unaided, it was reported.

However, having been escorted in a police car to the nearby station, Miss Winehouse - as befitting her celebrity status - was put in the ‘best cell’ in the house.

The singer was then forced to remove all her clothes while police video surveillance scanned her for evidence of any remaining drugs - or instruments which could be used as self-harm weapons.

A police spokesman claimed the musician behaved in an ‘exemplary’ fashion throughout her stay in the cells.

Despite asking for a taxi to return her to the hotel, a dazed and disorientated Miss Winehouse and Fielder-Civil were instructed to walk the 250-yard journey.

This latest incident comes just two months after Miss Winehouse was rushed to hospital after overdosing on a cocktail of alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine and the potent horse tranquilizer, ketamine.

It is also the second time she has offended in the Scandinavian country where drug use and possession is heavily frowned upon.

In August she had to cancel a Norwegian concert following a second reported alcohol and drug overdose.

Tonight’s gig is due to go ahead at the Grieghallen Arena in Oslo after she pleaded with her management not to scrap it.

Miss Winehouse is no stranger to controversy.

The Back to Black star, who married Fielder-Civil in secret earlier this year, has endured two spells in rehab over the past ten weeks battling her drug and alcohol addictions.

She recently confessed to self-harming before attempting to take drugs with a prostitute and getting into a vicious brawl with her 25-year-old husband.

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