`New leads' in hunt for hostages

London - Foreign Office officials are following "new leads" in the hunt for two Britons taken hostage in Chechnya, their families…

London - Foreign Office officials are following "new leads" in the hunt for two Britons taken hostage in Chechnya, their families said yesterday after meeting the Foreign Secretary, Mr Robin Cook.

Aid workers, Ms Camilla Carr and Mr Jon James, were pictured alive and apparently well in a video shown by the Foreign Office to their families earlier this month.

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