Barcelona police spare bathers' blushes with clothing 'robbery kits'

Initiative particularly welcome among those who have clothes stolen on city's nudist beaches

Police in Barcelona have handed out more than 100 emergency clothing kits to bathers who return from a swim to find everything they left on the beach has been stolen by the thieves who plague the city's shoreline.

The "robbery kits", made up of a T-shirt bearing the city council logo, a pair of shorts, flip-flops and a metro ticket, are particularly appreciated by swimmers on the city's nudist beaches of Sant Sebastii and Mar Bella whom thieves have left exposed.