1.   Scotland Yard has asked Spanish police to trace the mother, but with hundreds of hotels and vacant holiday apartments to check, they have discovered nothing so far.

2.   Scotland Yard has asked Spanish police to trace Ms Gibson, but they have not yet done so.

3.   As recently as mid-March, Spanish police and a Spanish-speaking FBI agent canvassed shops and hotels along the coast.

4.   Fights sometimes break out at supper time, so a handful of Spanish police arrive to stand guard.

5.   In reaction, the Spanish police and security authorities apparently decided to fight fire with fire, with the French police sometimes looking the other way.

6.   Meanwhile, the Spanish police had staked out the hotel and surroundings with scores of agents posing as hotel employees, beggars and garbage collectors.

7.   Spanish police arrested six Algerians believed connected to Osama bin Laden and his network of terrorists.

8.   Spanish police arrested three Basque separatists who may have been plotting to assassinate King Juan Carlos on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, the Associated Press reported.

9.   The bureau and the Spanish police then arranged a sting.

10.   The Spanish police said he had been the guard in the Koplowitz mansion.