21.   A spokeswoman for Durham police said officers were paid overtime to look after prisoners.

22.   But a spokeswoman for the Darlington group said there was no obvious explanation for the rise.

23.   But a London-based spokeswoman for NCP said there had been no structural faults with the car park.

24.   Anne Moody, Scottish spokeswoman for the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco, said the increase was diabolical.

25.   A spokeswoman for Cadbury said no decision had been taken to stop the television advert in which Rachel is shown eating a Flake while lying in a bath.

26.   Last night, a spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Bangkok said Mounsey had refused to pass on details about his Liverpool family.

27.   Allison Cooke Kellogg, a spokeswoman for United States Trust, denied the bank had mishandled the estate.