Amy Winehouse will not face charges over video footage which appeared to show her inhaling fumes from a crack pipe.

The 24-year-old singer was arrested over the footage and spent nine hours in the Limehouse police station in east London last week.

But today Scotland Yard said the Crown Prosecution Service had reviewed the Grammy-winner’s case and decided that no charges should be brought.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "No further action will be taken. The woman has been informed and she will no longer be required to return to the police station."

Winehouse was caught smoking on video by The Sun in January. Today her spokesman said the singer would be happy to leave the incident behind: “Amy is pleased to be able to move on and concentrate on music and particularly looks forward to seeing her fans again at eagerly awaited festival performances this summer.”

The video footage also showed the Rehab singer apparently snorting ecstasy and cocaine and admitting that she had swallowed six Valium.

After publishing the footage on its website, The Sun passed the video to police.

Winehouse has been a police station regular over the last year. At the end of April, she was cautioned for slapping a man during a middle-of-the-night row in Camden.

Previously she was arrested, then cleared, in connection with charges faced by her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. He is currently in prison awaiting trial for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

In October 2007, the singer and her husband were arrested in Norway for drug possession.

While Winehouse has battled with the law and been in and out of rehab, her musical reputation has continued to snowball. She won five Grammy’s at this year’s February awards, and last month made it onto the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £10 million.

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