1.   A girl screamed, and a masked man ran through the bar, pursued by two cops in turn-of-the-century uniforms.

2.   A masked man came tearing out of the bank and jumped into a waiting car.

3.   But the sight of masked men with a gun would put people in fear, he said.

4.   He had been bundled into the back of a Volkswagen by three masked men.

5.   Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.

6.   Read in studio Two twelve year old girls have been sexually assaulted by a masked man in Milton Keynes.

7.   Two masked men burst into the house and shot the boys parents in front of him.

8.   Yesterday morning two masked men walked into her Oxford home through an open back door.

9.   A woman has been raped in her own home by a masked man wielding a knife.