Hunt called off for missing pair

The pair never arrived at their first refuelling stop

A search has been called off for a man and a woman who vanished while flying home from Spain to East Yorkshire.

Bernard Hunter and Joyce French set off from an airport in north-east Spain on 3 September, after staying in Mr Hunter's holiday home in Barcelona.

But they failed to arrived at a scheduled stopover in France.

On Sunday, a Foreign Office spokesman said nothing had been found of the pair or their plane. "No further searches are being carried out," he confirmed.

Two stops

Mr Hunter, a businessman in Bridlington, set off with Mrs French in his light aircraft from L'Estartit, near Gerona, on the morning of 3 September.

They were due to fly over the Pyrenees and make two stops in France before landing in Driffield, East Yorkshire that evening.

But their last radio message was just under two hours after take off and they failed to arrive at their first refuelling point, St Secondin, near Poiters.

The Foreign Office spokesman said: "An air and ground search has taken place, but to no avail."

He said the pair are still officially listed as missing and that consular officials were liaising with their families.

Mrs French is headteacher of Bridlington Nursery School.

One mystery is that two calls were logged on her mobile phone three days after the disappearance.

But it is unclear whether they were incoming or outgoing calls.