The security guys at GRO (members of the Guardia Civil = Spanish federal police) found a sculpting tool, that's a metal rod about 5" long with rounded ends, not sharp, like a small spoon) which had slipped into the lining of my wife's handbag.
The Guardia said to her with a smile "we have no problem here with you taking this on board your flight, but they'll never let you on with it at Stansted on your return flight."
Tool was expensive (hand made) so she phoned me waiting outside GRO airport to see her plane off, I went up, Guardia brought her over to me and she handed me the tool.
Phew ! Another terrorist attack averted !