A US bailiff is under internal investigation after a woman spent four days forgotten in a holding cell without food, water or a toilet.

SIGNIFICANT new leads have emerged after detectives searching for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman studied a computer the girls used before they disappeared, police said yesterday.

POLICE hunting missing schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman want to speak to four people shown on closed circuit television footage.

FEARS were growing last night that two ten-year-old British girls missing since Sunday have been abducted.

The mother of one of two missing 10-year-old girls today made a tearful plea for the youngsters to return home as fears grew that they had been abducted.