11.   In Essex, the sea breached the coastal defences in a number of spots, blocking roads but causing no major problems, said police.

12.   THREE generations of a family found murdered in the kitchen of a terraced house had been the victims of a horrendous and frenzied attack, police said yesterday.

13.   All three of the dead were bikers, the police said, adding that numerous people were arrested and a handgun was recovered.

14.   Alvarez accompanied the Kimeses to New York in June, but returned to Florida before Mrs. Silverman vanished and is not a suspect, the police said.

15.   Among the government agencies affected are those for construction, education and post and telecommunications, according to documents and commuter disks discovered in the raid, police said.

16.   An Algerian Islamic militant living in London is suspected of directing the wave of terrorist bombings that began in France in July, French police said Saturday.

17.   An open bottle of beer and a licensed handgun were found in the car, police said, but Gooden passed a sobriety test and was not charged.

18.   An out-of-work Syrian immigrant despondent over mounting financial problems fatally shot his wife and their three young sons and then killed himself, police said.

19.   An officer who tried to subdue Busch was hit several times in the arm with the hammer, the police said, but the officer was not seriously injured.

20.   And in a third incident, a group of white men attacked an off-duty Asian taxi driver, breaking his cheekbone, the police said.