LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Steve Washington, a Jamaican-born drummer who has toured with Take That, Texas and Whitney Houston, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Washington, whose real name is Steve Tate, pleaded guilty to holding up a Lloyds TSB branch in Folkestone in July, while waving a gift-wrapped music-stand he tried to pass off as a gun. He also told the bank staff he had a bomb strapped to his body and would detonate it if they didn't follow his directions. After stealing about $2,200, he rode away on a bicycle, The Times of London said.

The 46-year-old musician reportedly was arrested after a witness saw him stuffing the money into his pockets on a nearby beach.

He is said to have needed the money to pay off a $700 drug debt, as well as his rent.

"At one stage he was the top pick of his profession," The Times quoted Washington's lawyer Andrew Espley as saying. "The fact that he used a bicycle as a getaway vehicle says something about his ineptness."

"The bank employees must have been absolutely terrified. They didn't know if it was a gun or not and there was the absurd thought that you might let off a bomb attached to your leg," Judge Andrew Patience said in a handing down his sentence. "Long after you have served your sentence such people will still be suffering."

Diana's letters to nanny up for auction

LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The late Princess Diana's former nanny reportedly is auctioning off four letters from the British royal.

"It will be a wrench to let the letters go but I will always have my memories of Diana, who was such a wonderful woman. But those memories are tinged with sadness because her dreams were completely shattered," Diana's former nanny Mary Clarke told The Daily Telegraph.

"Diana really did love her husband. That was her one ambition in life, to get married, to look after her husband and to have children. Diana was so upset by her parents' divorce, she was determined that she would never divorce herself. When she marred Charles I remember writing to her and saying she was marrying the only man in the country from whom she could never be divorced. Sadly, that was not to be."

In a letter she wrote when she was 17, Diana told Clarke: "My love of my life is dancing, things like tap, modern, ballet and jazz. Also I love singing, even though my voice sounds awful, and watching me dance is like watching an elephant, so no one does!"

Another letter reveals Diana's excitement shortly before her 1981 wedding.

"Not long to go now and about time too!" the Telegraph quoted her as saying in the note.

The auction is being conducted through the Colchester auctioneers Reeman Dansie.

Pink Floyd guitarist releases live album

LONDON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- British rocker David Gilmour recalls his 2006 concert in Gdansk, Poland, as "a great, great show," which is why he's preserved it on CD and DVD.

The Pink Floyd guitarist was planning "to make a live album out of the show tour" supporting his latest solo album, "On An Island." But the Gdansk show, staged at the city's historic shipyards and featuring an orchestra, changed his mind.

"It's slightly not representative of all the shows from the tour," Gilmour said, "but so many of the best (songs) for the album seemed to come from that night, anyway.

"So in the end we thought, 'Oh, we'll just do the whole (album) from Gdansk. That's the one we'll do. It'll be great."

"Live in Gdansk" is available in five different CD, DVD and vinyl album combinations.

The album also features one of the last recorded performances of Pink Floyd keyboardist and Gilmour band member Richard Wright, who died Sept. 15 of cancer at age 65.

CW orders full season of '90210'

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The CW television network says it has ordered a full season of "90210," its new "Beverly Hills, 90210" spinoff.

"We're very excited about the chance to watch this ensemble of newcomers and familiar faces coalesce and grow together as we move forward," Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment at The CW, said in a statement issued to Usmagazine.com Monday.

The Hollywood Reporter said 4.9 million people tuned in for the new show's two-hour premiere, making it the highest-rated scripted series premiere in the network's history.

Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty, co-stars on the original 1990s teen soap, are reprising their roles in the new edition of the show.