Well this week sees the beginning of a new relationship between the PR company Hanover, namely the founder Mr Charles Lewington. Former Press secretary to John Major, the predesscor to Margaret Thatcher. He has been in many a controversial brawl and doesn't seem to hold back. Allegedly, Mr Lewington complained on the first day of working for John Major. Mr Lewington received a call from John Major in a panic because their was a headline on Ceefax which he felt was biased towards the government. "If someone reacts this way to a headline they have lost the plot concerning the relationship between politics and the media". This comes around the same time the McCanns announce £80,000 is to be spent on posters and other campaign activities.
Similarily, Gordon Brown enlists the help of PR experts Saatchi and Saatchi. He also says farewell to one of his aides this week, Nicola Murphy. She will be joining... can you guess? Hanover.
Coincedences????
Yes probably.... like everything else in this web of mystery.
Intuit links to Southhampton.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Kate and Gerry Officially suspects
Kate and Gerry have been officially made suspects and there will be arrests in 48 hours.
I intuit this is another cover up... I still feel she will be found in October....
I intuit this is another cover up... I still feel she will be found in October....
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Elmer - No they didn't... heehee
Thanks for your comment Elmer, no they didn't get me... I don't think they will try and get anyone.. this is such an intricate web of lies and deciet it's almost impossible to prove.
They planned this for months in my opinion.
I'll just go and read your blog now. :)
Thanks for reading!
They planned this for months in my opinion.
I'll just go and read your blog now. :)
Thanks for reading!
Mystery and Intrigue complete posting
Reposted first part for to be complete. References on previous post from BBC.
Everyone will have heard of the McCanns by now. Most will have formed their own opinion. Many questions have arisen since 3rd May 2007, the main one being "Why did you leave your children that night?". It has been asked many times and the best that Kate and Gerry can do for an answer is rationalisation, pure and simple. We have heard the "It was like dining in the back garden" and "What we did was not irresponsible". In later posts, I will personally take you through each day since the 3 May 2007 and the effects of the media that the articles in print have on the public and the McCanns. For now, I will give you an outline of my thoughts.
A basic look at newspapers after the 14 May illustrates the apparent, in fact, blindingly obvious fact that the Great British Media were extremely biased. Investigative journalism died in May 2007, along with balanced and opinion free reporting. Our opinions have been forced upon us, or at least that was the intention, from various angles. The few free thinkers were silenced at every opportunity, comments sections were shut down and discussions were ended and deleted on the discussion boards. There was nowhere to turn and people felt like we were back in Germany 70 years ago... "First they burn the books...". Luckily for the people who wanted to air an opinion that didn't meet the requirements of the 'campaign', they had the Mirror forum.
The Mirror Forum
Many people were looking for somewhere that would allow them to voice their opinion in the midst of all the secrecy and deceit. It became apparent that very few places would allow this apart from the DailyMirror. Through time it became the hub of information... where people would go to receive the information they craved. What were the Portuguese saying? What did other people think about the McCanns? Evidently many people had voiced their concern... and they were still doing so with gusto. Blogs such as Mike Hitchens and Postman Patel were being referred to over and above the national and tabloid outlets. Why? Simply because they were providing information that people were seeking. An alternative viewpoint. I personally frequent the Mirror forums and must say how I admire the determination and effort that goes into in depth research... what some journalists used to be paid to do! What I don't like however, but I accept as a part of the vehicle of free speech, is the outright insinuations and allegations of the McCanns. It doesn't make nice reading but it's the price you have to pay for being able to see things from both sides of the 'argument'.
The media
So why was the media so reluctant to provide the information it usually revels in. The dirt digging that hacks do on family, friends, acquaintances and people that saw you in the shop last week. Where are they? Where are all the offerings of defence and support? Why the wall of silence. I can analyse and give you my brief conclusion or I can answer it in a few words... "It was one of them". The journalists have no qualms about dishing out the dirt on the working class, those lower down the social spectrum.
Was it that journalists couldn't betray 'one of their own'? Had they been instructed? Was there reporting restrictions placed on our media. This leads me on to the theory... and not many people are a) going to like it and b) going to believe it. I didn't publish this for popularity or attention... it's because this is what I truly believe.
Universal McCann
Universal McCann is the worlds largest advertising agency. They provide for Coca Cola, Exxon Mobil, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Mastercard, Microsoft, SC Johnson and Sony. Their sister company is McCann Erikson. It is the sister company who are advertising the Madeleine McCann image alongside the CEOP. It informs, almost instructs in fact, to "Help find Madeleine McCann". When you click on it, this takes you to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection. When you reach CEOP, you'd be hard pushed to believe the amount of coverage one little girl has... if you ask me the amount the tyke's picture has been used and abused by multinational companies is tantamount to child abuse.
Brian Child was the CEO at McCann Erikson and is now one of the team at River Media. The same River Media that created the Madeleine appeal video. Where is all this going I hear you ask... well read on.
Who would want to impress McCann Erikson/Universal McCann? Why would so many people seemingly uninvolved suddenly want to become involved? It is unprecedented... unless their is an ulterior motive... an agenda.
Rupert Murdoch
Most of us will know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, whether we want to admit it or not. We will ask ourselves one question for now, before coming back to RM in later posts... who would he be seeking approval from and why.
I have set the scene, for now... it's a lot to take in. Next post tomorrow.....
********Part 2 - Sorry I didn't get back to this until now, I have been busy at home.
Back to Rupert Murdoch….
As I have already said many, if not most, people will be aware of the power that RM can exert. It is far reaching and not much else can outweigh it. Certain forces, such as Universal McCann, can sway his aims but rarely can they be changed or stopped. If RM wants something he will get it.
So why would he get involved with Gerry and Kate McCann, a couple of doctors from the UK?
What benefits can he receive from little Madeleine McCann going missing? Who would want to impress RM? Was it convenient that a scapegoat for Madeleine McCanns disappearance was found less than 50 yards away from where the disappearance took place. Is Robert Murat involved in the church in some way?
Answers, answers…. They take time to worl out because of the sheer scale of this operation…. This is not a normal family pulling together… this is a major media operation in action. I say media because that, I feel is the impetus for this… it may be the reason but it’s without a doubt the impetus. Who knows how to work the media? Who was offering to clear Robert Murat’s name as soon as he was cleared…. Max Clifford. Why would an important player in the UK media offer his services to Robert Murat… maybe
Clifford is aware of what Murat is up against?
Rupert Murdoch has quite an array of media outlets under his control and it’s well known how much of a ‘hands-on’ role he has, especially in Sky News.
The main basis of the McCann campaign is the media… it plays a crucial role and to quote Paul Tuohy Chief Executive of Missing Persons helpline “THe strategy of the family has been a huge success”. Also stated by David Hodson, a prolific International Lawyer, specialising in Family Law but having experience in other areas of European and International law (quite a man to have on side!) "The family have been very aware of the importance of the media being used as a means to find their daughter.
"They have not been giving individual interviews. They have taken a view they want to reach the maximum number of people."
So they have been issuing press releases and doing conferences with the aid of a government provided spokesperson. In a video, you can clearly see Mr McCann conversing with Clarence Mitchell on exactly what it is he is supposed to say and do. This is very clearly, in my eyes anyway, scripted and carried out with a fine precision. If you look at the BBC cuttings I have provided today you will see that the issue of press releases/conferences are mainly the same mantra over and over again… why? They all have to stick to the script.
Clarence Mitchell has since released the governments plans to monitors blogs and forums as part of the press review/consultation the government has to plan strategies. Where did Clarence find out about the importance of blogs. Well there is Gerry’s blog… is that effective? Well if it’s to make inflammatory remarks and stir emotions then yes it is… very effective. Mike Hitchens? The flip side of the orchestrated McCann media machine… if it is designed to cause a bigger divide between the polarised views… then yes, I would say Mikes has been effective too. Remember where both Rupert and Mike are nationals… was it planned… to silence criticism and then leave it confined to two places… the Mirror and Mike Hitchens blog… they can both be ridiculed for the red herrings that people have been planting in different guises. This I feel was the plan but most forums were unable to contain the mounting whispers.
Who was the government and Rupert Murdoch trying to prove the effectiveness of blogs to… You guessed it Universal McCann, and how apt that their main role player is none other than Madeleine McCann, promoted to another ‘degree’ by Mr and Mrs McCann.
In 1998, Rupert Murdoch became a member of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great…. This, for those that don’t know, means that Rupert Murdoch is a papal Knight Commander of St Gregory.
Mr and Mrs McCann also got married in 1998, probably just coincidence, like so many other things in this mystifying saga.
Rupert Murdoch is a known freemason, as proven by his papal Knighthood to the Pontifical Order. These memberships are given to those with exceptional morals persons of “unblemished character” who have promoted the interests of society,, the [catholic] church and the Holy See [Vatican].
Doesn’t sound like Murdoch could have qualified surely, well I’ll tell you something that means the Church can turn a blind eye to Murdochs misgivings. His relentless aim to shock and amaze with lurid tales of filth scandal via The Sun. The tabloid that we have all come to know in the UK as being nothing better than toilet paper. It’s the tiny detail, the donation $10 million to the LA cathederal.
So the church and Murdoch have a cosy little relationship.Murdoch spouts nonsense via his tabloid vehicles in the UK better known as Then Sun and Sky News. I am aware he has his finger in many more pies, but I care not about Murdoch, only his role in the McCann fiasco. Who is left out of the loop? Who doesMurdoch want in the loop?
The UK government was left on it’s own, being abused by the very Mr Rupert Murdoch through the tabloids he owns when he doesn’t get his own way. Who did Murdoch want in the loop… Universal McCann. Please don’t forget that name… it’s a key player, most likely unwittingly… it’s their winning combination of successful advertising that Murdoch wants a slice of. His attempts at winning the public round may have worked at one time but I think he is too old and the worm known as the public, no longer wants to swallow the BS. So it’s charm offensive for nigh on 4 months.
There are so many people to benefit from this abduction that I feel the only way this could have been carried off the way it has is a collaboration between Masons, church and the media monster Murdoch. Are they all aiming to please Universal McCann? Possibly not because they stand to gain so much from this individually.
It’s all been mutual promotion of football clubs, the government, police forces, media, public and massive praise for the church. Many of the BBC reports have a heavily religious slant. The vigils in Portugal, Northern Ireland and the UK. The visit to the Shrine of Fatima. The daily church visits. The visit to the Pope.
The church as it happens, has been on a recruitment drive for priests and participants… it has been failing for some time and in need of a boost. People need to believe… to have a faith in the eyes of the church (as a collective).
What a better opportunity than a miracle.
Say something bad happened and so much time goes by that many people begin to believe that the only way it can be made better is a miracle.
An apparition is a vision… the shrine of Fatima is a symbol of these apparitions and a prophecy that was to come true.
Fatima - http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr49/cr49ap2.asp
Quote: As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on October 13, 1917, at the time, date and place that Lucy and the other two children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.
Where is this shrine… yes, you guessed it… Portugal. Where little Madeleine went missing.
Think it through… mull it over, tell me your thoughts in the comments.
Does anything make more sense to you now?
The comments from Gerry about being unable to come home…
The way they don’t feel they have done anything wrong… the church want more people believing.. more people with faith… they want to accept anyone regardless of their choices… God will forgive your sins.
The inability to show emotion, is that because they know where she is… I reckon she is somewhere high security being cared for well.
The people in high places that have been protecting them… they have been protecting their interests… their asset… little Madeleine.
Why they will not believe that she is dead.
If anyone goes down for this is will be Gerry McCann… they were aiming for Robert Murat but realised the public wouldn’t buy it with no evidence.
The above is only what I believe, so I personally will not be falling for it this latest lie… such a big lie… but so many to benefit. . For your own information look up the church, Rupert Murdoch and Clarence Mitchell… there will be other government links that I don’t want to explore as it starts to get too outlandish (it is already I hear some of you say!!)
This is based on hours of research and because of the highly secretive nature of the information it’s difficult to pin down definites and can only be a theory.. A thought… until or unless someone blows the lid on it
I wait with patience… I think I’ll need it!
Everyone will have heard of the McCanns by now. Most will have formed their own opinion. Many questions have arisen since 3rd May 2007, the main one being "Why did you leave your children that night?". It has been asked many times and the best that Kate and Gerry can do for an answer is rationalisation, pure and simple. We have heard the "It was like dining in the back garden" and "What we did was not irresponsible". In later posts, I will personally take you through each day since the 3 May 2007 and the effects of the media that the articles in print have on the public and the McCanns. For now, I will give you an outline of my thoughts.
A basic look at newspapers after the 14 May illustrates the apparent, in fact, blindingly obvious fact that the Great British Media were extremely biased. Investigative journalism died in May 2007, along with balanced and opinion free reporting. Our opinions have been forced upon us, or at least that was the intention, from various angles. The few free thinkers were silenced at every opportunity, comments sections were shut down and discussions were ended and deleted on the discussion boards. There was nowhere to turn and people felt like we were back in Germany 70 years ago... "First they burn the books...". Luckily for the people who wanted to air an opinion that didn't meet the requirements of the 'campaign', they had the Mirror forum.
The Mirror Forum
Many people were looking for somewhere that would allow them to voice their opinion in the midst of all the secrecy and deceit. It became apparent that very few places would allow this apart from the DailyMirror. Through time it became the hub of information... where people would go to receive the information they craved. What were the Portuguese saying? What did other people think about the McCanns? Evidently many people had voiced their concern... and they were still doing so with gusto. Blogs such as Mike Hitchens and Postman Patel were being referred to over and above the national and tabloid outlets. Why? Simply because they were providing information that people were seeking. An alternative viewpoint. I personally frequent the Mirror forums and must say how I admire the determination and effort that goes into in depth research... what some journalists used to be paid to do! What I don't like however, but I accept as a part of the vehicle of free speech, is the outright insinuations and allegations of the McCanns. It doesn't make nice reading but it's the price you have to pay for being able to see things from both sides of the 'argument'.
The media
So why was the media so reluctant to provide the information it usually revels in. The dirt digging that hacks do on family, friends, acquaintances and people that saw you in the shop last week. Where are they? Where are all the offerings of defence and support? Why the wall of silence. I can analyse and give you my brief conclusion or I can answer it in a few words... "It was one of them". The journalists have no qualms about dishing out the dirt on the working class, those lower down the social spectrum.
Was it that journalists couldn't betray 'one of their own'? Had they been instructed? Was there reporting restrictions placed on our media. This leads me on to the theory... and not many people are a) going to like it and b) going to believe it. I didn't publish this for popularity or attention... it's because this is what I truly believe.
Universal McCann
Universal McCann is the worlds largest advertising agency. They provide for Coca Cola, Exxon Mobil, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Mastercard, Microsoft, SC Johnson and Sony. Their sister company is McCann Erikson. It is the sister company who are advertising the Madeleine McCann image alongside the CEOP. It informs, almost instructs in fact, to "Help find Madeleine McCann". When you click on it, this takes you to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection. When you reach CEOP, you'd be hard pushed to believe the amount of coverage one little girl has... if you ask me the amount the tyke's picture has been used and abused by multinational companies is tantamount to child abuse.
Brian Child was the CEO at McCann Erikson and is now one of the team at River Media. The same River Media that created the Madeleine appeal video. Where is all this going I hear you ask... well read on.
Who would want to impress McCann Erikson/Universal McCann? Why would so many people seemingly uninvolved suddenly want to become involved? It is unprecedented... unless their is an ulterior motive... an agenda.
Rupert Murdoch
Most of us will know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, whether we want to admit it or not. We will ask ourselves one question for now, before coming back to RM in later posts... who would he be seeking approval from and why.
I have set the scene, for now... it's a lot to take in. Next post tomorrow.....
********Part 2 - Sorry I didn't get back to this until now, I have been busy at home.
Back to Rupert Murdoch….
As I have already said many, if not most, people will be aware of the power that RM can exert. It is far reaching and not much else can outweigh it. Certain forces, such as Universal McCann, can sway his aims but rarely can they be changed or stopped. If RM wants something he will get it.
So why would he get involved with Gerry and Kate McCann, a couple of doctors from the UK?
What benefits can he receive from little Madeleine McCann going missing? Who would want to impress RM? Was it convenient that a scapegoat for Madeleine McCanns disappearance was found less than 50 yards away from where the disappearance took place. Is Robert Murat involved in the church in some way?
Answers, answers…. They take time to worl out because of the sheer scale of this operation…. This is not a normal family pulling together… this is a major media operation in action. I say media because that, I feel is the impetus for this… it may be the reason but it’s without a doubt the impetus. Who knows how to work the media? Who was offering to clear Robert Murat’s name as soon as he was cleared…. Max Clifford. Why would an important player in the UK media offer his services to Robert Murat… maybe
Clifford is aware of what Murat is up against?
Rupert Murdoch has quite an array of media outlets under his control and it’s well known how much of a ‘hands-on’ role he has, especially in Sky News.
The main basis of the McCann campaign is the media… it plays a crucial role and to quote Paul Tuohy Chief Executive of Missing Persons helpline “THe strategy of the family has been a huge success”. Also stated by David Hodson, a prolific International Lawyer, specialising in Family Law but having experience in other areas of European and International law (quite a man to have on side!) "The family have been very aware of the importance of the media being used as a means to find their daughter.
"They have not been giving individual interviews. They have taken a view they want to reach the maximum number of people."
So they have been issuing press releases and doing conferences with the aid of a government provided spokesperson. In a video, you can clearly see Mr McCann conversing with Clarence Mitchell on exactly what it is he is supposed to say and do. This is very clearly, in my eyes anyway, scripted and carried out with a fine precision. If you look at the BBC cuttings I have provided today you will see that the issue of press releases/conferences are mainly the same mantra over and over again… why? They all have to stick to the script.
Clarence Mitchell has since released the governments plans to monitors blogs and forums as part of the press review/consultation the government has to plan strategies. Where did Clarence find out about the importance of blogs. Well there is Gerry’s blog… is that effective? Well if it’s to make inflammatory remarks and stir emotions then yes it is… very effective. Mike Hitchens? The flip side of the orchestrated McCann media machine… if it is designed to cause a bigger divide between the polarised views… then yes, I would say Mikes has been effective too. Remember where both Rupert and Mike are nationals… was it planned… to silence criticism and then leave it confined to two places… the Mirror and Mike Hitchens blog… they can both be ridiculed for the red herrings that people have been planting in different guises. This I feel was the plan but most forums were unable to contain the mounting whispers.
Who was the government and Rupert Murdoch trying to prove the effectiveness of blogs to… You guessed it Universal McCann, and how apt that their main role player is none other than Madeleine McCann, promoted to another ‘degree’ by Mr and Mrs McCann.
In 1998, Rupert Murdoch became a member of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great…. This, for those that don’t know, means that Rupert Murdoch is a papal Knight Commander of St Gregory.
Mr and Mrs McCann also got married in 1998, probably just coincidence, like so many other things in this mystifying saga.
Rupert Murdoch is a known freemason, as proven by his papal Knighthood to the Pontifical Order. These memberships are given to those with exceptional morals persons of “unblemished character” who have promoted the interests of society,, the [catholic] church and the Holy See [Vatican].
Doesn’t sound like Murdoch could have qualified surely, well I’ll tell you something that means the Church can turn a blind eye to Murdochs misgivings. His relentless aim to shock and amaze with lurid tales of filth scandal via The Sun. The tabloid that we have all come to know in the UK as being nothing better than toilet paper. It’s the tiny detail, the donation $10 million to the LA cathederal.
So the church and Murdoch have a cosy little relationship.Murdoch spouts nonsense via his tabloid vehicles in the UK better known as Then Sun and Sky News. I am aware he has his finger in many more pies, but I care not about Murdoch, only his role in the McCann fiasco. Who is left out of the loop? Who doesMurdoch want in the loop?
The UK government was left on it’s own, being abused by the very Mr Rupert Murdoch through the tabloids he owns when he doesn’t get his own way. Who did Murdoch want in the loop… Universal McCann. Please don’t forget that name… it’s a key player, most likely unwittingly… it’s their winning combination of successful advertising that Murdoch wants a slice of. His attempts at winning the public round may have worked at one time but I think he is too old and the worm known as the public, no longer wants to swallow the BS. So it’s charm offensive for nigh on 4 months.
There are so many people to benefit from this abduction that I feel the only way this could have been carried off the way it has is a collaboration between Masons, church and the media monster Murdoch. Are they all aiming to please Universal McCann? Possibly not because they stand to gain so much from this individually.
It’s all been mutual promotion of football clubs, the government, police forces, media, public and massive praise for the church. Many of the BBC reports have a heavily religious slant. The vigils in Portugal, Northern Ireland and the UK. The visit to the Shrine of Fatima. The daily church visits. The visit to the Pope.
The church as it happens, has been on a recruitment drive for priests and participants… it has been failing for some time and in need of a boost. People need to believe… to have a faith in the eyes of the church (as a collective).
What a better opportunity than a miracle.
Say something bad happened and so much time goes by that many people begin to believe that the only way it can be made better is a miracle.
An apparition is a vision… the shrine of Fatima is a symbol of these apparitions and a prophecy that was to come true.
Fatima - http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr49/cr49ap2.asp
Quote: As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on October 13, 1917, at the time, date and place that Lucy and the other two children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.
Where is this shrine… yes, you guessed it… Portugal. Where little Madeleine went missing.
Think it through… mull it over, tell me your thoughts in the comments.
Does anything make more sense to you now?
The comments from Gerry about being unable to come home…
The way they don’t feel they have done anything wrong… the church want more people believing.. more people with faith… they want to accept anyone regardless of their choices… God will forgive your sins.
The inability to show emotion, is that because they know where she is… I reckon she is somewhere high security being cared for well.
The people in high places that have been protecting them… they have been protecting their interests… their asset… little Madeleine.
Why they will not believe that she is dead.
If anyone goes down for this is will be Gerry McCann… they were aiming for Robert Murat but realised the public wouldn’t buy it with no evidence.
The above is only what I believe, so I personally will not be falling for it this latest lie… such a big lie… but so many to benefit. . For your own information look up the church, Rupert Murdoch and Clarence Mitchell… there will be other government links that I don’t want to explore as it starts to get too outlandish (it is already I hear some of you say!!)
This is based on hours of research and because of the highly secretive nature of the information it’s difficult to pin down definites and can only be a theory.. A thought… until or unless someone blows the lid on it
I wait with patience… I think I’ll need it!
News cuttings from 3rd May 2007 - search on keyword for information at your fingertips...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6623127.stm - Friday 4th May - Family Picture included
Kate and Gerry McCann returned at about 2145 GMT to find an empty bed and the apartment door and window wide open.
The apartment has been cordoned off and local people are helping with a search.
Gill Renwick, a friend of the family, said Madeleine's parents - both doctors - had been having a meal in a tapas restaurant a few hundred yards from the apartment and had been checking on the little girl and her younger brother and sister (two-year-old twins) every half hour. Gill Renwick phoned GMTV.
"They're a devoted family and love their children to bits. They live for their children."
Madeleine was reported missing at about 2200 BST on Thursday and tourists joined the police in an all-night search. Her aunt Trish Cameron, who lives in Glasgow, said she felt certain her niece had been abducted.
"They last checked at half past nine and they were all sound asleep, sleeping, windows shut, shutters shut.
"Kate went back at 10 o'clock to check. The front door was lying open, the window had been tampered with, the shutters had been jemmied open or whatever you call it and Madeleine was missing...
"She's an absolutely beautiful, wee blonde girl, blue-green eyes - one distinguishing feature is that one of her pupils runs into the iris of her right eyes. She's an absolutely gorgeous wee girl."
She added: "We feel that what's been going on in Portugal has been ineffectual.
"My brother and sister-in-law are absolutely distraught."
"As you can imagine Madeleine's parents are distraught and not doing very well at all," Mr Hill said.
"It's still questionable as to whether it's abduction," he said.
Doug Skehan, another consultant cardiologist there, said: "(Dr McGann) is a popular hard working colleague, for whom we have great affection.
"The mood in the hospital is one of great concern and we hope that Kate and Gerry will have their daughter back very soon."
Doug Skehan is now a director of the fund
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6626251.stm - 5th May 2007 - Three photos, Madeleine shown below, family portrait and Kate and Gerry.

Pictures of her have been widely distributed, and ports put on alert.
"We cannot describe the anguish and despair we are feeling as parents of our beautiful daughter Madeleine," he said.
"We request that anyone with any information relating to Madeleine's disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the Portuguese police and help us get her back safely."
He then addressed anyone who may be holding Madeleine, saying: "Please, if you have Madeleine, let her come home to her mummy, daddy, brother and sister."
Mark Warner Ocean Summer Club in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz
"Nothing had been touched in the apartment, no valuables taken, no passports," she said.
"They think someone must have come in the window and gone out the door with her."
Relatives have flown out to the resort from Manchester to be with the distraught couple.
Mark Warner UK Operations Director Craig Mayhew and family liaison officers from Leicestershire police are also travelling to Portugal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6627605.stm - 5th May 2007 - Picture of Kate and Gerry included
Doctors Gerry and Kate McCann have spoken of their "anguish and despair".
Relatives have flown to the Algarve to be with the couple, who were holidaying with their three children.
Speaking to press on Friday evening, Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley, pleaded for the return of their "beautiful" Madeleine.
Mr McCann, with his wife at his side, read out an emotional statement outside the holiday apartments on Friday evening.
"We cannot describe the anguish and despair we are feeling as parents of our beautiful daughter Madeleine," he said.
"We request that anyone with any information relating to Madeleine's disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the Portuguese police and help us get her back safely."
Mr McCann's sister Philomena, criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
She has been in phone contact with her brother.
Speaking from her home in Glasgow, she said: "He thinks it's just too little, too late.
"It was hours before the local police turned up and we're talking two bobbies that totally downplayed the incident and said that Maddie had maybe just wandered off."
However, she said that the family was elated to hear the police believed Madeleine was still alive.
"There was a distinct feeling of elation, you know - but it's been a while since we actually heard it and it's really important to keep your emotions in check," she said.
The Mayor of Lagos, Julio Barraso, defended the police from accusations that they had been too slow to act.
He told BBC News 24: "During all the night of Thursday until Friday they have been here and they started the investigation and I believe that humanly it's not possible to ask for more."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6627493.stm - 5th May 2007 - Headlines
The face of Madeleine McCann, the three-year old British girl feared abducted from a holiday resort in Portugal, appears on many front pages.
The Daily Mail highlights the unlikelihood of such an incident at the retreat for the professional classes.
But the Daily Express says Praia da Luz has become a haven for burglars who target upmarket holidaymakers.
The Express and the Sun both wonder why Madeleine's parents chose not to use the creche and babysitting facilities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6628033.stm - 5th May 2007
When she left the house at 10pm - around the time the McCanns returned to their apartment to find their two-year-old twins still there but Madeleine missing - the streets were deserted, including the one by the McCanns' back gate.
"During the daytime there are lots of people with children, but at that time I saw no one."
The block where the McCanns were staying had no special security precautions, such as a porter or locked gate on to the street.
The family is said to have chosen the resort, run by the company Mark Warner, because of its childcare facilities.
As a second forensics team came in late on Friday to pore over the McCann's apartment once more, residents said nothing like this had ever happened in the village.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6627605.stm - 5th May 2007
In the first official briefing on the case, Guilhermino Encarnacao, director of the judicial police in the Faro region, said officers are working on the assumption she is being held between 3km and 5km (1.8 and 3.1 miles) from the resort. They had about 30 calls from potential witnesses and have created an artist's impression of a suspect.
Madeleine, who turns four next Friday, was last seen by her father at about 2100 local time.
When Mrs McCann went to check on her about an hour later, she found the bedroom's outside shutter and window had been opened and her daughter missing.
British Ambassador John Buck, who is with the McCanns in the Algarve, said they have been joined by three Family Liaison Officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr McCann's sister Philomena, criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
She has been in phone contact with her brother.
Speaking from her home in Glasgow, she said: "He thinks it's just too little, too late.
"It was hours before the local police turned up and we're talking two bobbies that totally downplayed the incident and said that Maddie had maybe just wandered off."
The Mayor of Lagos, Julio Barraso, defended the police from accusations that they had been too slow to act.
He told BBC News 24: "During all the night of Thursday until Friday they have been here and they started the investigation and I believe that humanly it's not possible to ask for more."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6628891.stm - 5th May 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6627799.stm - 6th May 2007
James Wilkinson and his wife, from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, will be going to Mark Warner in Greece for the fourth year running this summer, with their two children aged four and two.
Mr Wilkinson said: "Mark Warner is a fantastic family holiday where parents can get some time to themselves. "The facilities for the children are probably better than the facilities for the adults. They know if the children are happy the parents will be happy.
"What I do know about this Portugal resort is it is quite different from other Mark Warner resorts.
"All the resorts we've been to have been pretty much self-contained and away from the local town.
"I've never once had any concern at all about safety and security."
The firm, which is based in London, says it is committed to doing all it can to support the McCanns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6629471.stm - 6th May 2007
Gerry McCann said the Catholic mass gave them "strength, courage and hope".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6629091.stm - 6th May 2007
Speaking outside their apartment with his wife, Mr McCann said: "We have no further information regarding the investigation but appreciate the significant effort everyone is making on our behalf.
"We would again like to appeal for any information, however small, that may lead to the safe return of Madeleine."
In a statement on Friday Mr McCann made a first appeal for help and spoke of his family's "anguish and despair".
Prayers will be said in churches in Praia Da Luz on Sunday for the safe return of the girl.
When Mrs McCann went to check on her about an hour later, she found the bedroom's outside shutter and window had been opened and her daughter missing.
Resort staff and guests helped the McCanns search the complex grounds into Friday morning and police were notified.
Pictures of Madeleine have been widely distributed, and ports and the Spanish police put on alert.
British Ambassador John Buck, who is with the McCanns in the Algarve, said they had been joined by three family liaison officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr McCann's sister Philomena criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
But she said the family was elated to hear police believed Madeleine was still alive.
"There was a distinct feeling of elation, you know - but it's been a while since we actually heard it and it's really important to keep your emotions in check," she said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6632325.stm - 7th May 2007
Spokesman for PJ appointed after pressure from British Diplomats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6631255.stm - 7th May 2007
Mrs McCann, who had asked to speak to the media, said: "We would like to say a few words to the person who is with our Madeleine, or has been with Madeleine.
"Madeleine is a beautiful, bright, funny and caring little girl. She is so special. Please, please, do not hurt her.
Speaking with husband Gerry at her side, she added: "We beg you to let Madeleine come home. We need our Madeleine."
Her final sentence was in Portuguese - "Por favor, devolva a nossa menina" - which means "Please give our little girl back".
Although they said they had not been well briefed by police, they did know one item they were looking out for was Madeleine's clothing, our correspondent said.
"Police without uniforms moved around a lot about two days ago. They moved around and were asking questions."
Officers have taken records of all boats booked into the marina between 27 April and 6 May.
Asked whether the family were being kept informed, he said: "The family is the number one interest in the case but even then, they must be a little far from the investigation."
Local mayor Julio Barroso told BBC News 24 work was going on behind the scenes to try to find Madeleine.
"Our judicial police are following all the signs, and they are working very hard for all these days and they have many many people involved," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6633759.stm - 7th May 2007 - Headlines
The police operation to find missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann is criticised in the papers.
The Guardian says her parents are "getting frustrated" with the response of police investigating the girl's feared abduction in Portugal.
The Daily Telegraph and Sun say it was the couple, not the police, who decided to make a TV appeal to her abductor.
And it was their idea to detail the pyjamas she was wearing, in an effort to move the investigation forward.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634075.stm - 8th May 2007
Mother relives fear 16 years on - Ben Needhams mum, Kerry Grist
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6633687.stm - 8th May 2007
Dave Shelton from Manchester, who now lives in the village, has been co-ordinating volunteer searchers.
He told BBC News that each morning a group of up to 20 locals and tourists searched an area around the village, concentrating on ruins, wells and bushes.
"Every morning at eight I go to see the police chief and he decides where we go and gives us our little zone, plus a map.
"We go off and do that area and then report back and tell him we have done the area so he can tick it off."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6634283.stm - 8th May 2007
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) advises forces to treat every missing person case as a major crime investigation.
Its guidance reads: "It is always easier to rein back from the early stages of a major inquiry than it is to recover missed opportunities resulting from miscalculating in the early stages.
"In cases where the circumstances are suspicious or are unexplained, use the maxim: If in doubt, think murder."
This means that once a criminal investigation is under way, police cannot reveal anything about that investigation, including any details about potential suspects.
Europol - But the Europol website states "there must be factual indications that an organised criminal network is involved".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6635463.stm - 8th May 2007
Antonio Santana Carlos said the case was of great concern to Portugal.
Manchester United player Christiano Ronaldo, who is Portuguese, made an appeal for information on MUTV.
The McCanns have said their Catholic faith has offered them hope and strength.
Around the marina in the nearby town of Lagos, maritime police have been searching amid claims a man was seen with a small girl in the area.
And tourist Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex said that two weeks ago she saw a man trying to steal a pushchair at the resort when Madeleine went missing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6633835.stm - 8th May 2007
Alison Hipkin, practice manager of the Latham House Surgery where Kate McCann is a GP, said: "I think that, other than the despair you see on the television, I don't think we can say much more than that.
Dr Doug Skehan, a colleague of the McCanns, added: "There were hundreds of people who interrupted what was a busy, post bank holiday day at the hospital to come down and be with us for a ceremony which was dignified and respectful."
Brian Kennedy, the three-year-old's great uncle who lives a few streets away from the McCanns, said the village vigil was a "wonderful idea".
He said Madeleine's mother must be under tremendous strain but seemed to be keeping her spirits up.
"But as the days go on, it must be very difficult," he added.
He said any analysis of the police investigation had to take second place to the hunt to find Madeleine.
"I think the main thing is to keep up the search. Any shortcomings should be looked at afterwards."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6636869.stm - 8th May 2007
He said additional British experts arrived on Monday to work with the Portuguese on the case.
Footballers including England captain John Terry and Portuguese players Cristiano Ronaldo and Paulo Ferreira, who both play in England, have appealed for anyone with information to come forward. Meanwhile, villagers in Rothley, where the McCanns are from, have held a silent vigil to show support for Madeleine.
Staff at Leicester's three hospitals also joined in prayer for the McCann family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6638171.stm - 9th May 2007
Coronation Street cancel story about abduction.
The story was a major plotline due to run in the top-rated drama for "several months", ITV said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6638793.stm - 9th May 2007
A British holidaymaker who stops to look says that he and his wife, like the McCanns, sometimes left their sleeping children alone in a hotel room while they had dinner nearby.
Another man says when he watched the McCanns make their first, painful statement to the media, he thought how easily it could have been him and his wife standing there.
"There, but for the grace of God," he says.
Her youngest daughter says when she heard of Madeleine's abduction, she was afraid she too could be snatched.
On Tuesday night came the first false alarm - a reported sighting of Madeleine in a small town north of Lisbon, around 370 kilometres (250 miles) away.
Half an hour later, we heard it was a little blonde girl with her father, a local man, who was driving a car with Spanish number plates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6637469.stm- 10th May 2007
he parents' statement, read out by Alex Woolfall, spokesman for the operator of the resort where the family were staying, said: "We are grateful to all of those currently taking part in the search for our daughter Madeleine.
Map of resort
"At present, we are channelling all of our emotions and all of our efforts into the steps that are being taken to secure Madeleine's safe return." Police have also been handed CCTV footage showing a woman with a girl fitting Madeleine's description at a service station just a few miles from where she was abducted.
The woman was said to be urging the girl to say "thank you" to staff, but the youngster had appeared reluctant.
British child-abduction experts have flown to Portugal to join in the hunt.
Mrs Healy told Sky News that the couple, who are Catholic, were drawing strength from each other, prayers, support, sympathy and kindness.
The Anglican church in Praia da Luz held a prayer vigil for Madeleine. Its vicar, Father Haynes Hubbard, said he did not know whether Madeleine's parents would attend but they were aware of the service and were grateful for the desire of people there to remember Madeleine in their prayers.
"We all have deep fears and absolute hope," he said.
Mr Healy said that people who criticised the parents for leaving the children are "misguided and have got it wrong".
Mark Warner Holidays, operator of the resort, said it has received more than 400 messages of support for the McCanns from 20 countries.
An online appeal to help find Madeleine has also been set up.
The appeal, created by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the Virtual Global Taskforce, is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish on www.ceop.gov.uk.
Crimestoppers have also set up an international number - +44 1883 731 336 - which people with information can call anonymously.
Meanwhile, Crimestoppers, which has set up a hotline, says it has been given four "useful" pieces of intelligence.
On Thursday, Crimestoppers said its appeal for information from English-speaking people in Portugal has yielded "four pieces of useful intelligence".
They have been passed onto Leicester police, the lead force in the UK.
Meanwhile, Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, from Glasgow, has countered criticism from those who say the couple were wrong to leave their children alone in the holiday apartment while they ate dinner at a nearby restaurant.
"If you look at the layout of that place, it was entirely safe. The issue at stake here was, that the flat was broken into, and wee Madeleine was abducted," he told BBC Radio Five Live.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6641899.stm - 10th May 2007
Portuguese police have refused to confirm or deny reports that they are searching for two men and a woman.
Meanwhile, photographs of Madeleine wearing an Everton FC shirt have been released by the club.
Another service will he held later on Merseyside, organised by friends of the family and led by Father Paul Seddon, who married the McCanns and baptised Madeleine.
Superintendent Graham Hill of Surrey police, who investigated the disappearance and murder of Surrey schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, is among them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6644615.stm - 10th May 2007
Items of clothing found locally did not belong to Madeleine, he said.
Police with dogs searched the McCann's apartment again on Thursday evening, while the family chose to remain at a police station outside the Algarve town.
Police said it is the final time they will search the block to look for clues. The wider search in the area will end in the next few days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6642115.stm - 11 May 2007
Stephen Winyard offered £1m reward.
Prayer vigil in Glasgow. The prayer service in Glasgow will appeal for the safe return of the child, who was abducted in the Algarve.
Monsignor Christopher McElroy, the cathedral administrator, said: "People of all faiths and none have watched with mounting anxiety as the search for Madeleine continues.
"The prayer service we are organising will help people to overcome that sense of helplessness which we all naturally experience.
"We will allow people the opportunity to reflect, to pray and to keep alive their hope that Madeleine can be found alive and well.
"The service is open to people of all faiths. Whether they want to come and simply sit quietly or light a candle, or join in the prayers and hymns they will be very welcome."
Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, said: "Although I won't be able to be present at the vigil in person, due to prior engagements, I will be very much united with all who gather in prayer for Madeleine and her parents.
"My own prayers and those of countless others continue for the safe return of the little girl and an end to this horrific ordeal for the family."
Villagers in Rothley held a silent vigil for the family on Tuesday.
Phil McCann said she was in regular contact with Madeleine's parents in Portugal.
She said they were "overwhelmed" by the reaction in Scotland to their daughter's disappearance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6645559.stm - 11 May 2007
The front of the Belfast Telegraph shows a snapshot of a smiling family on an Easter break in Donegal, with five children licking melting icecream cones in the bright sunshine.
The brother, sisters and cousins are sitting on the kerb in Gweedore, but the headline spells out the tragedy that now casts a dark cloud over the grinning children.
"Maddy: happy in Donegal" depicts the then carefree and the currently missing Madeleine McCann, who should, the paper says "be looking forward to her fourth birthday tomorrow".
The three year-old and her siblings spent Easter with relatives in Dungloe, but the youngster disappeared just over a week ago in Portugal.
Now the paper tells us that the search for the three year-old has been extended across Europe. Madeleine's Ulster-born aunt Phil McCann has designed a Missing poster, which she hopes may be shown on television during the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow night. The Portuguese police search is meanwhile being wound down.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6629399.stm - Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6647585.stm - 11 May 2007
Party plans put on hold.
Led by their chaplain, Father Haynes Hubbard, on Thursday morning they said prayers for Madeleine at the church.
"You go to sleep thinking about her and wake up thinking about her," said Sally, who runs a clothes shop just down the road from the apartment where the McCanns were staying when Madeleine disappeared.
"I've got a guesthouse and everyone's talking about it."
Is this Sally Evleigh - Murat’s cousin?
"The police are amazing," she said.
"They're barely getting any sleep, they're working so hard to try to find her. Many of them have children themselves."
Gerry McCann on Friday told the media outside the resort complex in Praia da Luz where he and his wife Kate are still staying that the couple "remain positive and focused on the investigation".
They had, he said in a prepared statement, "seen at first hand how hard the police are working in the search for Madeleine and their strong desire to find her" and would themselves "leave no stone unturned in the search for our daughter".
The couple spent all Thursday afternoon and much of the evening at the police station in the town of Portimao, where the investigation is being co-ordinated.
The McCanns were interviewed along with some of the friends who had come on holiday with them, but police said that none were suspects.
Jenny Murat, a retired nurse, at lunchtime on Friday set up a roadside stall in the middle of Praia da Luz, decked with posters in Portuguese asking people to come forward with information.
"I know lots of people won't talk to police, for example because they're letting out an apartment that isn't registered with the council, but they can talk to an independent person.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6645341.stm - 11th May 2007
A message from the McCanns thanking people for their support has been read out at a service at St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Glasgow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6647945.stm - 11 May 2007
Hundreds of people attended a prayer service for Madeleine McCann in Glasgow as the search for the missing girl continued in the Algarve.
People queued round the block and many were unable to get inside St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral for the service on Friday evening.
His colleagues in the medical profession organised the vigil, which took place at the cathedral in Clyde Street.
Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, told the prayer service that Mr and Mrs McCann had sent an email message to those attending the vigil.
They said: "Thanks to everyone for their messages and actions of support.
"This is exactly what we need in this trying time. Please continue to drive support around Europe. Get people to access information.
"We remain confident that Madeleine will be found soon and your prayers and efforts will bring this about."
Celtic and Aberdeen footballers will wear yellow ribbons at their game on Saturday, following a request from Madeleine's aunt Phil McCann.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6648865.stm - 11 May 2007 Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6649081.stm - 11 May 2007 - Headlines
The continuing search for Madeleine McCann, who turns four on Saturday, is the lead story in several papers.
The Independent has the headline: "A stolen child, a missed birthday, a baffling mystery".
The Sun urges its readers to wear yellow clothing today to show their support for her family.
And in the Express, it is the cruellest of days for Madeleine's parents. The paper's report is accompanied by the headline: "The saddest birthday".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6631417.stm - 11 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6649351.stm - 12 May 2007
A group of schoolgirls from Madeleine McCann's home village are handing out missing posters to holiday makers at East Midlands Airport. Molly Arthur
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6648995.stm - 12 May 2007
Chancellor Gordon Brown said every parent would be thinking of the McCann family and what they could do to help.
A group of business people and celebrities, backed by the News of the World newspaper, have pledged a total of £1.5m in reward money.
Donors include Sir Richard Branson, Top Shop's Sir Philip Green and the paper itself, which has put up £250,000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6649319.stm - 12 May 2007
Members of Madeleine's family, including her aunt Philomena McCann, were at the game.
They will later hold a private family gathering at the Glasgow home of Madeleine's uncle John McCann, before praying for her safe return.
In a statement, Gerry and Kate McCann asked people to "redouble their efforts" to help find their daughter.
Mr Craddock said the group received some funding from Kent Police but also relied on charity appeals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650159.stm - 12 May 2007
Kate Gurnett, who organised the event said that the idea of tying yellow ribbons dated back to the Second World War when they were placed in windows by the wives of soldiers at the front.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6649951.stm - 12 May 2007
Fifty pink balloons were released at the village of Queniborough, close to Rothley, on Saturday, where Madeleine lived until a year ago.
"Keep looking, please keep praying, please help bring Madeleine home," they said.
"They can join my e-mail campaign sending my poster to everyone that they know," she said.
An official website "Bring Madeleine Home" has been set up by family friends.
"The target is to get Madeleine's face seen and, if she's recognised, there's a Crimestoppers number they can ring."
"Fifteen thousand copies - it was magnificent. and they put Madeleine's image on the big screen several times. Celtic are known as the Lisbon Lions - the links with Portugal are not tenuous.
"We have had such fantastic support from the world of football, business and the general population have been stupendous.
"I've never been cuddled so much in my life as I was today."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6650367.stm - 12 May 2007 - Pictures
Mr McCann, along with wife Kate, said: "Today we should be celebrating the fourth birthday of our daughter Madeleine.
"Instead we have had to remember what a normal, beautiful, vivacious, funny, courageous and loving little girl that we are missing today.
"I like to think about the effects of Madeleine's abduction from us nine days ago like a tidal wave."
He said: "The devastation affects everyone we meet here in the resort and has affected this community. "The tidal wave did not stop here, it has travelled many miles across Europe, across the sea to Glasgow, Liverpool, Leicester, Ireland, America, Canada, New Zealand and continental Europe, where we have many friends and family."
He thanked those who had prayed or shown support to the family, such as sticking up posters or emailing friends and contacts throughout Europe.
"They have taken our strength and they are taking action, these actions are to make Madeleine's disappearance more public in the hope that we will get her back sooner as a result."
Fifty pink balloons were released at the village of Queniborough, close to Rothley, on Saturday, where Madeleine lived until a year ago.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650765.stm - 13 May 2007 - Headlines
The Sunday Express, along with News of the World and the Sunday Telegraph suggest Madeleine may have been bundled into a white van.
They report a police source said one was seen several days in a row outside the McCann's Algarve apartment complex.
But the Independent on Sunday dismisses it saying it is no more significant than many other leads that have "evaporated in the past ten days".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6650951.stm - 13 May 2007
Fitness coach Nicola Gill who is a friend of Madeleine's mother, Liverpool-born GP Kate McCann, has flown back from Portugal for the run.
Many runners are also expected to be wearing T shirts showing Madeleine's picture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6651037.stm - 13 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
The Scottish News of the World says it has put up a record £1.5m reward for the toddler's safe return.
The Sunday Herald reports that the family have issued a distinctive picture of the missing youngster in the hope that it will help the public identify her.
Scotland on Sunday deals with the family's distress on what was Madeleine's fourth birthday.
It was the cruellest day any mother could face, writes the Sunday Mirror.
The Scottish Sunday Express describes a "tidal wave" of devastation wreaked by the abduction.
The family of snatched Madeleine McCann will use Bryan Adams' biggest hit in an emotional video appeal, reports the Sunday Mail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6649647.stm - 13 May 2007
Diane McCann handed out posters and T-shirts and urged runners to wear yellow ribbons.
Before the race in Glasgow, Diane McCann told BBC Scotland: "We're hoping to show solidarity for the family and show everybody that we are rooting for Madeleine to come home as soon as possible.
"We hope that as many women as possible want to wear a T-shirt or will pin the poster of Madeleine on the back of the T-shirt that they have on." Madeleine's uncle John, who also stays in Glasgow, said the nature of a planned party to mark her fourth birthday changed.
He said: "We had a significant moment of contemplation and prayer and wishing she was back with us again."
Meanwhile, Madeleine's granmother appealed to those holding their "shining star" to "take her somewhere safe" so she can be returned home.
Susan Healy told BBC News that people should look out for her granddaughter's distinctive "black flash" in her eye, where her pupil runs into her iris.
Mrs Healy was speaking while attending the annual Liverpool 10K race, where runners were also wearing T-shirts bearing Madeleine's photo to raise awareness of the missing youngster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650711.stm - 13 May 2007
Relatives have released posters drawing attention to a distinctive marking in the youngster's right eye.
They hope that the picture - which clearly shows how Madeleine's pupil runs into her blue-green iris - will make her easily recognisable.
Some of the nine people who were questioned on Thursday and Friday - mainly family and friends of the McCanns - may be asked to make formal court statements, BBC correspondent Alison Roberts said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6651307.stm - 13 May 2007
Joining the service was the English priest who married Kate and Gerry McCann and later baptised Madeleine. Father Paul Seddon, of the Our Lady of Compassion church in Formby, near Liverpool, flew out to support the couple in Portugal.
A legal team has flown out to assist the family in Praia da Luz.
The lawyers are understood to be helping set up a special "fighting fund" to continue the search for Madeleine using donations from the public and to help the family with liaison.
Asking people to look out for her granddaughter, Mrs Healy said: "Please look at children, don't be afraid, go and look at children, look for this black flash that goes from her pupil to the iris of the eye.
"And if the people who have got Madeleine realise that she has this distinctive marking, take her somewhere safe. Leave her, you can run off, we don't care whether you get caught, that doesn't matter. We just want Madeleine back."
Describing the little girl, she said: "Madeleine is a bright, shiny star .... she is special".
They have formally interviewed a 12th person as part of their investigations, but say no individual is being considered a suspect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652611.stm - 14 May 2007
The legal team, which has flown out to Portugal, will reveal details of the fund within the next few days.
The lawyers will help with liaison and will not interfere with the inquiry, Madeleine's uncle John McCann has said.
A spokesman for the International Family Law Group, the legal company helping the McCanns, said: "Gerry and Kate are very grateful for all the support and generous offers of help that they are receiving.
"Details of how contributions can be made to help get Madeleine back to the safety of her own family will be made available in the next couple of days."
Meanwhile, a group of about 10 British people, including the McCanns and their friends, have been reinterviewed to clarify their statements.
They are expected to record video evidence in court this week for any future trial.
Local lawyer Artur Rego said the procedure was only used in exceptional circumstances when a large number of witnesses were foreigners.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652757.stm - 14 May 2007
A bleak assessment of the search for Madeleine McCann is revealed in several of Monday's newspapers.
The Sun quotes a Portuguese police inspector admitting that his team do not have a single lead.
The Daily Telegraph takes a similar line, saying the police are back at "square one."
And the Mirror's front page is dominated by its news that Gerry and Kate McCann have vowed to stay in Portugal until their daughter is found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6653307.stm - 14 May 2007
How effective are rewards?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6655073.stm - 14 May 2007
Mr Morgan said he was prompted to organise the prayer vigil by "simple human feelings" as he watched some of his 10 grandchildren play .
"You cannot inflict a bigger hurt on parents than this and I just want to let Madeleine's parents know that they are in the thoughts of, and have the supoprt of people, in this part of the world," he said.
They have also said that they believe that Madeleine is being cared for wherever she is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652937.stm - 14 May 2007
He said they considered that until there was "concrete evidence to the contrary, we believe Madeleine is safe and is being looked after".
Mr McCann added: "The thrust of the search for Madeleine is the investigation, which we are fully supporting.
"We have brought in the lawyers to advise us what else can be done. I don't know what that is at the minute."
His wife said: "We can't even consider returning home at the moment, can't even let it enter my head."
A spokesman for the International Family Law Group, the legal company helping the McCanns, said: "Gerry and Kate are very grateful for all the support and generous offers of help that they are receiving.
"Details of how contributions can be made to help get Madeleine back to the safety of her own family will be made available in the next couple of days."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6655263.stm - 14 May 2007
She said: "It's all about a young, vulnerable person being taken away from the bosom of their family where they belong and that has hit everybody really hard."
Asked how the child's parents were bearing up, she said: "When I see Gerry, that's not him. That's a stressed-out individual that I barely recognise.
"When I see him and Kate, I just worry about the level of stress on them because they look exhausted. You hear it in his voice all the time, it's cracking."
She said: "We are a huge conglomerate now of countries that are joined together without borders.
"There is nothing to stop her abductor taking her anywhere and we just need to know that it is as big a priority in Europe as it is in this country finding her."
“All of us in parliament, I am sure, would wish to do what we can to learn any lessons there may be from this particular incident in order to ensure that European law enforcement agencies work together effectively and quickly in these circumstances in the future." - Jack McConnell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6655907.stm - 15 May 2007
The search began on Monday after Sunday Mirror journalist Lori Campbell spoke to police and the British Embassy about Mr Murat, who has become well known to journalists during the search for Madeleine.
Mr Murat, who described himself as half-Portuguese and told journalists he had been helping police with translation work during the investigation, is a frequent visitor to Casa Liliana.
He is believed to have moved on his own to Portugal three years ago. He had been living with his wife and family in Hockering, Norfolk.
"And the family has a very good reputation and a very good name." - Catherine Roberts
The British ambassador to Portugal, John Buck, said the McCanns were showing "remarkable resilience and dignity".
He also said there were "impressive resources" being devoted to the investigation by the Portuguese authorities.
The collaboration between the Portuguese and British police was "truly exceptional", Mr Buck added.
In the UK, a text message urging mothers to pray for Madeleine's safe return to her family is being passed on by mobile phone and in internet forums.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6656471.stm - 15 May 2007 - Headlines
Most carry a picture of Robert Murat, a British man believed to be being questioned by Portuguese police.
A Daily Telegraph journalist says he was the first person she met on her arrival, while a Daily Mail reporter says he looked like an official.
In the Daily Express British ambassador John Buck praises the work of the Portuguese authorities in the inquiry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6656599.stm - 15 May 2007 - Headlines
Journalist Fionola Meredith takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning papers.
As the search for little Madeleine McCann continues, the Portuguese police have only confirmed that more than one person is being questioned, but not arrested.
Despite that minimal information, there are many column-inches - especially in the red-tops - devoted to the supposed identity of those under question and to the intensive police searches of a villa close to where Madeleine went missing.
The Irish News leads with this story and the Belfast Telegraph launches a poster appeal, aimed at local people going on holiday in Portugal, and featuring a striking image of the distinctive "black flash" on the iris of the child's right eye.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6656599.stm - 15 May 2007
BBC correspondent Richard Bilton said a British man in his 30s has been given arguido status.
It is understood the other people questioned were a German woman and a Portuguese man.
Mr Murat's uncle, Ralph Eveleigh, who runs a bed and breakfast in the nearby village of Burgau, said his nephew had an alibi for the night Madeleine went missing.
"His mother says that on the night the kid disappeared they were both in the house together all night," he said.
"Robert is so sweet and good-natured. He was just trying to help."
Mr Murat's cousin, Sally Eveleigh, said there was "absolutely no way" he could have had anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance
On Monday, her parents Kate and Gerry McCann said they would not return to the UK until she was found safe and well.
Mr McCann, who is originally from Glasgow, said the couple would continue to believe she was being cared for until they received "concrete evidence to the contrary".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6659327.stm - 16 May 2007
In an off-camera interview, Mr Murat, the father of a four-year-old daughter, told Sky News: "This has ruined my life and made my life very difficult for my family here and in Britain.
"The only way I will survive this is if they catch Madeleine's abductor."
He added: "I've been made a scapegoat for something I did not do."
The suspect has signed an identity and residence statement which prevents him from moving house or leaving the country, and requires him to regularly report to police.
Meanwhile, Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann were joined by about 15 of their friends and several villagers at a private church service in Praia da Luz.
The service was held jointly by a Portuguese priest and Father Paul Seddon who baptised Madeleine and has flown out to the Algarve to support her family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660351.stm - 15 May 2007
The man named as the sole suspect in the hunt for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal is again pictured on many front pages.
The Daily Telegraph says despite the questioning of Briton Robert Murat and a search at his home, police do not have the evidence to charge him.
The Daily Mail says Mr Murat claims his life has been ruined by being named as a suspect in the case.
Meanwhile, the Sun claims Mr Murat had been involved in a "love triangle".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6660759.stm - 15 May 2007
The man formally named as a suspect in the case, Robert Murat, appears on many of the front pages.
The Daily Telegraph and the Mirror both report on what the latter describes as "his tangled love life".
The Sun and the Mail both report on the main suspect's denial of any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.
The Mail says he has complained of "being made a scapegoat", and he was under surveillance for a week before being questioned.
After all the concentration on Tony Blair in the past week, the Guardian carries a wide-ranging interview with an almost forgotten man - the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.
Among other things, he tells the paper that he is "immensely proud of his contribution to the government".
The Independent bids him a less charitable farewell, looking at his "less than expert use of the English language".
The paper notes that he "often dispensed with verbs".
It carries a quote from Matthew Parris, of the Times, who said: "Once a Prescott speech begins, nobody - least of all Mr Prescott - can be sure where it'll end.
"Nothing is certain except that sooner or later the wheels will come off."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660621.stm - 16 May 2007
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had given a brief news conference earlier in the day - the first time they took questions from journalists as well as giving a statement.
They seemed to be settling in for the long haul - setting up a fighting fund to continue the search for Madeleine and engaging lawyers.
Even their anguish at Madeleine's disappearance had lost its frenzied, keening edge and had taken on a tone of valiant determination.
Rewards had been offered; awareness had been raised, both in Portugal and in Britain. There had been prayer vigils, campaigns launched, appeals by footballers, tycoons and JK Rowling.
None of them had succeeded in returning Madeleine to her parents.
The media had gathered at the police barrier outside the McCanns' holiday apartment to wait for a statement from the British ambassador to Portugal, John Buck.
Not that anyone expected him to say anything radically new. There seemed nothing new left to say.
Road run
Suddenly, there was a flurry of movement - photographers and reporters were running down the road, away from the crash barrier and the police van that have stood outside the Mark Warner apartment complex since 4 May, the morning after Madeleine's disappearance.
I ran after them. There wasn't far to go. They, and I, skidded to a halt about 100 yards (90 metres) away, at the end of the street, the gated entrance to a low white villa, only partly visible through the hedge. Casa Liliana, it said on the blue-and-white tile at the entrance. Police were guarding the entrance. Over the gate, we could see figures moving around in the courtyard. One of them appeared to be wearing a white forensic suit.
"That's Robert's house!" The word went round in seconds.
All the journalists who'd been there since the beginning knew Robert. In his neatly pressed chinos and short-sleeved shirts, hair slicked back, eyes half-obscured behind tinted spectacles, he looked like some kind of official, perhaps from the British embassy.
I'd spoken to him myself.
"Just call me Robert," he said, as we sat on the pavement under the shade of the trees outside the McCanns' apartment.
He didn't want to give his surname. He had grown up in Portugal, he told me, before returning to Britain in his mid-teens. He spoke both English and Portuguese fluently, so was helping the police with translation and liaising with the media, he said. He'd recently come back to the Algarve and was doing something in property.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660009.stm - 16 May 2007
Glasgow MP Mohammed Sarwar, who will accompany her, said the McCann family had "the full support of the British government".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6657977.stm - 16 May 2007
Q and A on arguido status
Arguido status gives a range of legal protections, such as the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer during questioning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6661113.stm - 16 May 2007
Chancellor Gordon Brown has told relatives of missing Madeleine McCann he will help "in any way he can".
Philomena McCann, lobbying MPs for support in the search for her niece, four, said he was "extremely helpful".
British suspect Robert Murat, 33, has said he is "a scapegoat". Police have searched his mother's Algarve villa, close to where Madeleine was last seen.
A fighting fund will be launched later at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester, to help cover escalating legal bills.
She said Mr Brown had offered support on "a practical and a personal level" in their meeting.
She added: "For someone to abduct Madeleine, we're aware they would want such a beautiful, caring little girl as she is, and I can totally understand them.
"But give her back, she isn't yours, we want her home and safe."
Tuck Price, a friend of the family, said Mr Murat was keen to get the focus "back on Madeleine and away from him".
"His daughter is now in hiding in the UK," he added.
"The one thing, the compassionate thing, that made him get involved in the case has put his daughter in this horrible position."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6658465.stm - 16 May 2007
Gerry has read out clear and simple statements appealing for information about Madeleine with his wife, visibly distressed, often by his side.
Not only have the McCanns appeared before the cameras at the resort where they were staying in Praia da Luz, Algarve, they have also released a steady stream of pictures of their daughter.
Photographs of "Maddy" - as newspapers have begun to refer to her - smiling in an Everton shirt or wearing a pink hat have become instantly recognisable in countries across the world.
Extended members of the McCann family in the UK have also played their part, giving media interviews and launching a chain e-mail campaign.
As part of the fighting fund launch, the website www.findmadeleine.com was set up.
Paul Tuohy, chief executive of the National Missing Persons Helpline, said: "The media strategy of the family has been a huge success.
David Hodson, of the International Family Law Group, which is advising the McCann family, said: "The family have been very aware of the importance of the media being used as a means to find their daughter.
"They have not been giving individual interviews. They have taken a view they want to reach the maximum number of people."
http://www.davidhodson.com/biog/biog_3.asp - Lawyer
"This fund will be a vehicle to help our family get our darling, wee niece back."
It was also announced that any money raised not needed for the search for Madeleine would be used to help find missing children in the UK, Portugal and elsewhere.
"If, as a result of this fund, and as a result of getting Madeleine back, we can help other families in a similar situation that would be fantastic," Mr McCann added.
Also at the launch, colleagues of Madeleine's mother Kate and father Gerry paid tribute to the couple as "very successful doctors within our community".
She is a GP and he is a consultant cardiologist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6662723.stm - 16 May 2007
The fund was launched at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester by Madeleine's uncle John McCann.
Earlier, Chancellor Gordon Brown told relatives of the four-year-old he would help "in any way he can".
Speaking at the launch, Mr McCann said: "This fund will be a vehicle to help our family get our darling, wee niece back."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6663289.stm - 16 May 2007
After all the complaints from British journalists about poor communications on the part of police, local journalists are, Freitas adds, now faced with a Foreign Office-appointed spokeswoman for the McCann family who does not speak the local language.
"This is a very British case," admits Mr Freitas.
"The parents are British, resort staff are British and now so is the suspect. But it is a strange situation - her not speaking Portuguese."
The villa - less than 100 yards from the McCann's holiday apartment - from which the man later declared a suspect was taken, is inhabited by a retired British nurse, Jenny Murat, and her son Robert.
The next day, with his life and character ruthlessly dissected by the British tabloids, he reportedly said he was being made a scapegoat and that only if Madeleine's abductor is found will he survive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6664081.stm - 16 May 2006
The pictures of Madeleine received warm applause during the clash between Sevilla and Espanyol at Hampden Park.
The two-minute, Find Madeleine film was screened in a bid to raise awareness of the case in Spain, amid fears abductors may have taken her there from Portugal.
Leaflets with pictures of the four-year-old were also put on seats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6663177.stm - 16 May 2007
Sally Eveleigh, speaking in the Algarve on behalf of Robert Murat, 33, said her relative vehemently denied involvement in the four-year-old's disappearance.
Police have removed computer equipment from another house in Praia da Luz and taken a Russian man for questioning.
Meanwhile, a fighting fund to cover rising search costs has been launched.
Mr Murat's estranged wife Dawn said she was "assisting police in any way she could".
Mrs Murat, of Hockering, Norfolk, said she was going through a "very difficult time" as a result of the focus on her husband.
"This is a very difficult time for my family," said Mrs Murat in a statement issued via Norfolk Police.
"I am assisting the police in any way I can."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6664071.stm
More than 100 people have gathered in Downpatrick to hold a vigil in support of missing child Madeleine McCann.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6664473.stm - Headlines - Irish
The News Letter joins many of the other papers in carrying several pages on the search for Madeleine McCann.
It focuses in particular on the words of the DUP MP Iris Robinson, who met Madeleine's aunt and uncle at Westminster on Wednesday. She urges everyone to pray for her safe return.
The angle on the story in the British papers is the questioning of a Russian man in connection with the disappearance.
According to the Daily Express, he was picked up after a conversation between him and the British suspect, Robert Murat, was captured on a bugged phone.
The Russian man, Sergey Malinka, apparently helped to set up Mr Murat's website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6664271.stm - 17 May 2007
Mr Malinka is believed to have designed a website for Mr Murat's property business. He is said to have contacted detectives himself after reading reports police were probing connections between Mr Murat and a Russian.
On Wednesday, Madeleine's aunt, Philomena McCann, visited Parliament to lobby MPs and peers and a fighting fund to help cover the cost of the search was launched.
Any money raised not needed for the search for Madeleine would be used to help find missing children in the UK, Portugal and elsewhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6666645.stm - 17 May 2007
Michael Wright, a close relative of Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate, said a campaign website has had more than five million visitors.
Speaking in Praia da Luz, Mr Wright said: "Gerry and Kate are taking immense strength from the support and good wishes that they are receiving from all over the world.
"They have been totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations.
"Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
He said a fund launched with the website on Wednesday would pay for the campaign and to hire experts in publicity and detection.
There has been speculation the family may hire private investigators to look for Madeleine, who vanished from her bed when her parents were at a nearby restaurant on 3 May.
Mr Wright said companies had agreed to include Madeleine's image on outgoing emails while others have promised text message campaigns, poster distribution and financial support.
Speaking in Praia da Luz, Mr Wright said: "Gerry and Kate are taking immense strength from the support and good wishes that they are receiving from all over the world.
"They have been totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations.
"Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
He said a fund launched with the website on Wednesday would pay for the campaign and to hire experts in publicity and detection.
There has been speculation the family may hire private investigators to look for Madeleine, who vanished from her bed when her parents were at a nearby restaurant on 3 May.
Mr Wright said companies had agreed to include Madeleine's image on outgoing emails while others have promised text message campaigns, poster distribution and financial support.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6667247.stm - 17 May 2007
The notices in Hockering, near Norwich, contain Robert Murat's photograph and the words: "Rob is innocent."
The Norfolk posters were made by Carla Cunha, 33, a Portuguese care worker who lives in Hockering.
Mrs Cunha and her husband Antonio, said Mr Murat and his wife Dawn, helped them find work when they first came to the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6667307.stm - 17 May 2007
Portuguese police searching for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann insist their inquiry is not struggling.
Ch Insp Olegario de Sousa told a news conference the inquiry was "going on" but emphasised that Portuguese law restricted what police could reveal.
Any information given to the police was studied and various departments were analysing photos, he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6668547.stm - 18 May 2007
A British businessman has paid for 20,000 posters of missing Madeleine McCann to give to motorists.
John Sandford-Hart will hand out the self-adhesive posters to car, lorry and van drivers on the A303 from Andover, Hants, to Amesbury, Wilts.
Mr Sandford-Hart said the story was brought home to him as he has a three-year-old son. He added that he had received the backing of police.
"We will also have donation buckets out for the fighting fund."
"It's important that everybody helps. If one poster out of 20,000 makes a difference, it's worth it."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6668479.stm - 18 May 2007
The DVD entitled Find Madeleine will be shown at the match between Chelsea and Manchester United, the FA said.
The film, made by the campaign to raise awareness of Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal on 3 May, has already been shown at the Uefa Cup final.
Producers of a website set up to find the four-year-old from Leicestershire say it has received more than 58m hits.
Figures for donations to a cash fund to pay for the campaign are expected to be revealed later.
The website, meanwhile, has received more than 16,000 messages of support since its launch on Wednesday.
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry were said by one of the campaign organisers to have been "totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations".
Michael Wright, Mrs McCann's brother-in-law, added: "Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6671023.stm - 19 May 2007
Madeleine's great-uncle Brian Kennedy, said: "It's the tip of the iceberg. The figure I have heard likely to be contributed is very considerable."
NatWest's David Brinsford said: "As yet funds taken in over the counters of NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland have not hit the account and will swell the balance further when they start to filter through next week."
A DVD entitled Find Madeleine will be shown at the match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, the FA said.
"He has told me he has experienced something in the church which set him on his way. "He spoke to me about feeling like he was in a tunnel but not at the far end where light seems far away."
A Leicestershire police spokeswoman also confirmed that a Portuguese detective inspector had visited the English force's incident room to speak to officers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6672013.stm - 19 May 2007 - Headlines
The story of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann dominates the front pages again.
The Daily Mirror focuses on a possible sighting of the little girl in Marrakech, Morocco by a Norwegian tourist.
The Daily Mail claims conmen are cashing in on the case by launching bogus, profit-making websites with similar names to the official one set up by relatives.
And the Daily Telegraph says Portuguese police are under fire again, this time for not checking CCTV footage of traffic leaving the resort of Praia da Luz after Madeleine disappeared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6652779.stm - 19 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
The Daily Record says Portuguese police are investigating a possible sighting of missing Madeleine McCann in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.
The Scottish Daily Express also reports on the case of the missing toddler and says the main suspect at the centre of the investigation reportedly asked a number of people to give him an alibi for the night she was snatched.
The Scottish Daily Mail says the desperate search for Madeleine has been hijacked by conmen cashing in on her family's heartache.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6672003.stm - 19 May 2007
The two-minute video to Simple Minds' song Don't You (Forget About Me) was shown on big screens at Wembley Stadium before kick-off and during half-time.
The force said a number of reported sightings were being investigated, including one made by a Norwegian tourist in Marrakech on 9 May.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673601.stm - 20 May 2007
Kate and Gerry McCann let cameras capture them laughing with two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
The family are seen eating beans on toast and sausages, and playing with a Thomas the Tank Engine toy.
He said they made time to play games and tell stories to the twins, who "still think they're on holiday".
The two-year-olds spend much of the day at the resort's Kids' Club, where "Amelie particularly likes to look after 'babies'", Mr McCann added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673651.stm - 20 May 2007
The dignity being showed by Madeleine McCann's family is widely covered in the morning's newspapers.
The Sunday Mirror's front page is dominated by a newly-released picture of Kate and Gerry McCann - showing the couple with their two-year-old twins.
The News of the World remarks that after 17 days of torment, the McCanns are still displaying awe-inspiring strength and dignity.
The papers also publish extracts from a diary being kept by the McCanns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6675369.stm - 21 May 2007 - Headlines
The anguish of the family of Madeleine McCann also remains in the news, as her father returns to the UK for the first time since she disappeared.
The Times reports that the McCanns are considering hiring private detectives to help find the four-year-old.
The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, says a minute's silence will be held at noon on Monday in Portugal to remember Madeleine.
Kate and Gerry McCann plan to set off on "a worldwide mission" to the "four corners of the earth" to find their daughter, the Daily Express claims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6674623.stm - 21 May 2007
The father of missing Madeleine McCann has flown back to the UK from Portugal to meet organisers of the campaign to find his daughter.
Gerry McCann is expected to spend just over 24 hours away from his wife Kate and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
He will also deal with personal matters during the family's first time apart since Madeleine's abduction on 3 May.
Madeleine's great-uncle, Brian Kennedy, said "astonishing" public support had kept them going through "bleak" times.
Mr McCann arrived at East Midlands Airport in the early hours of Monday morning.
In addition to meeting campaign organisers, it is thought his visit will also help arrange for the family to stay in Portugal for the foreseeable future.
Mr McCann will return to Portugal on Tuesday morning.
A spokeswoman for the family in the Algarve, said Mr McCann was returning "to deal with some personal matters and he will be talking to the people who are organising the fund".
She emphasised he was returning to Britain for "very practical reasons" and would return as quickly as he could.
Mr Kennedy said Madeleine's relatives were aware of Mr McCann's "brief, private visit home" which "was mainly regarding legal matters"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6668801.stm - 21 May 2007
But in this case, the community affected has grown exponentially. England's cricketers wore yellow ribbons for the lost girl during the first test against the West Indies. So, too, did many MPs last Wednesday, when Madeleine's aunt came to meet Gordon Brown and John Prescott (Tony Blair being otherwise engaged at the White House).
But when disaster strikes closer to home and to child one half recognises - many see their own daughter, sister, grand-daughter or cousin in Madeleine's round face and open smile - it brings to the surface our darkest and least rational fears.
"There are thousands of distressing things happening every day, but this has touched me as much - it collides so much with my safe little world," says Claude Knights, of the charity Kidscape.
"Madeleine's face, Sarah Payne's face, Holly and Jessica in their red shirts under the clock - because these are vivid images, they bypass the logical centres in one's brain and that deep primal instinct to protect is triggered. It makes us more and more fearful and this is damaging in itself to childhood."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6677037.stm - 21 May 2007
One minute silence in Portugal.
The silence was initiated by an anonymous chain email circulated around the country at the weekend, and was observed at midday.
Mr McCann is a consultant cardiologist at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital and his friend and colleague Dr Doug Skehan said he would be involved in meetings for most of Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6679045.stm - 22 May 2007
Mothers raise money for Madeleine
The 50-strong United Mothers group was formed as a result of the child's disappearance in Portugal 19 days ago.
As well as hosting a fundraiser, they ae urging all Northern Ireland primary schools to have a 'yellow ribbon day', to support Madeleine's family.
The campaign's Aine Elmore said that rather than just thinking about what happened, they wanted to take action.
"I have a daughter who's three months younger than Madeleine. I wake up in the night thinking about her and to check on her," she said.
"I can really feel for the McCann family and think 'what are they going through?' and rather than sitting thinking about it let's do something about it - let's try and get Madeleine back home.
"Mothers were standing at the school gate and thought let's get together and raise some money for the Madeleine Fund."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6679113.stm - 22 May 2007
The hunt for Madeleine McCann still attracts a lot of coverage.
Several papers report the police appeal for people who've been on holiday in the Algarve to send them their holiday snaps, just in case Maddy's pictured in any of them.
The Mirror's main headline talks of a father's pain and shows Gerry McCann visiting the yellow ribbon tributes in the Leicestershire village where he lives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6677803.stm - 22 May 2007
They want anyone who was in the Praia da Luz area in the two weeks before the four-year-old disappeared on 3 May to send their photos to a new website.
Officers will cross-reference them with a database of UK paedophiles.
Madeleine's father Gerry has returned to Portugal to rejoin his wife and children after a brief trip to the UK.
As well as meeting organisers of the campaign to find her, it is believed his visit was also intended to enable the family to stay in Portugal for the foreseeable future.
Jim Gamble, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, said: "No matter how small or insignificant the information may seem to you, it could be the missing part of the jigsaw, so let us decide if it is important.
"We are looking for anyone who was at the Ocean Club Resort or surrounding area in the two weeks leading up to Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May, who have photographs that might help our work."
Detective Chief Superintendent Anne Harrison, of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), said it was possible Madeleine was still being hidden in Praia da Luz.
A number of UK law enforcement agencies are helping the Portuguese authorities, including Leicestershire Constabulary, the Association of Chief Police Officers, CEOP and the NPIA.
Chief inspector Olegario Sousa said the clue was "being verified" and that the Moroccan authorities had been contacted.
Portuguese people have also been asked to pray for Madeleine on Tuesday night in a nationwide e-mail from Carmelite nuns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6681023.stm - 22 May 2007
Gerry McCann said he and wife Kate would play a key part in trying to find her, including travelling around Europe to raise recognition of her plight.
Mr McCann said that since Madeleine may no longer be in Portugal the search for her would extend "far and wide".
Some of the money collected by the fund will be used to appoint a campaign manager. Hiring private investigators was not on the agenda at the moment, said Mr McCann.
Mr McCann said: "It was extremely difficult to leave here without Kate and when I went to Rothley I knew we should have been coming home as a family of five, there's no doubt about that."
Standing by his side, Mrs McCann said: "It was quite moving for me to see Gerry in Rothley again. It has just emphasised to us how much support we have got there and everywhere really, and that really helps."
On Wednesday, the couple, who say they have drawn strength and support from their faith, plan to visit the Roman Catholic shrine in Fatima, in central Portugal, to pray for Madeleine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6682939.stm -23 May 2007
he plot was due to revolve around Kara Tointon's character Dawn Swann, who is currently pregnant in the programme.
"It was felt any storyline that included child abduction would be inappropriate and could cause distress to our viewers," a spokeswoman said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6682669.stm - 23 May 2007
Gerry and Kate McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, who say their Catholic faith has kept them strong, spent time at the Marian shrine of Fatima.
Meanwhile, police in Portimao, in the Algarve, have re-interviewed a female witness and plan to question a man.
It is believed the pair are Michaela Walczuch - the German girlfriend of the sole official suspect, Briton Robert Murat - and her estranged husband, Portuguese national Luis Antonio.
According to friends, she had hoped to make the four-hour trip to the shrine before Madeleine was abducted, and had been even keener to do so since.
Her religious faith is long-standing, while Mr McCann is said to have had his renewed during their ordeal.
On the weekend of Madeleine's fourth birthday earlier this month, 300,000 pilgrims flocked to Fatima, including many who carried the girl's picture and prayed for her return.
They were marking the 90th anniversary of a vision of the Virgin Mary appearing to three shepherd children - Lucia Santos, her cousin Francisco Marto and his six-year-old sister Jacinta - at the site north of Lisbon.
Mary is said to have disclosed three secrets to the children and predicted Jacinta and Francisco's deaths.
The shrine attracts millions of pilgrims every year, many of whom show their devotion by approaching it on their hands and knees.
During services in the village church in Praia da Luz, which the McCanns have been attending, churchgoers have chanted: "Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us now."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6686851.stm - 24 May 2007
They have attached "Find Madeleine" posters to their bags appealing for information. Head teacher Tony Gavin said he was proud of the pupils.
Mr Gavin said the youngsters had approached teachers with the idea.
The pupils have also asked if their school bus and the ferry they take to France can carry posters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6688037.stm - 24 May 2007
Meanwhile, Kate and Gerry McCann have released the last known photograph of Madeleine, sitting by a swimming pool.
They have also met British Ambassador to Portugal John Buck, British police and consular officials.
The photograph of Madeleine was taken by her mother at the holiday complex where she disappeared in Praia da Luz, Algarve, on 3 May.
It shows the four-year-old smiling and dangling her feet in the pool alongside her father and younger brother Sean.
Back in the UK, thousands of green and yellow wristbands symbolising Madeleine's plight have gone on sale in her home county of Leicestershire.
It had been reported that a source claimed Madeleine's parents were happy with the "overall thrust" of the police investigation, but "frustrated" that certain questions and concerns were not being addressed quickly enough.
Portuguese law means police cannot release details of an ongoing investigation, even to the family involved.
The McCanns are now said to be preparing to travel around Europe in an effort to raise the profile of her case.
Meanwhile, the Catholic bishop of the Algarve, Manuel Neto Quintas has offered to become a go-between with any kidnapper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6691503.stm - 25 May 2007
The key was to realise that there was a channel of support, said Mr McCann.
And the charity launched an official yellow Missing People ribbon to symbolise support for all missing people.
People have been urged to wear yellow ribbons to mark their support for the McCanns since Madeleine was snatched from their holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz.
He joined Paul Tuohy, chief executive of Missing People, as he re-launched the charity.
"We are re-launching at a peculiarly ironic time - when the level of interest in missing people has perhaps never been higher, when 'missing' as a social issue is on the lips of politicians, radio and TV presenters, newspaper editors, and men, women and young people the length and breadth of the country."
Mr Tuohy also announced a direct mailing appeal for a missing child, which will be delivered to half a million homes on Friday.
It carries an appeal for a girl named Carmel Fenech who was 16 when she disappeared from Crawley, West Sussex, on May 23, 1998.
The EU Justice Commissioner marked the day with a plea not to forget the McCanns' plight.
Franco Frattini said: "The public support shown throughout Europe to the parents of Madeleine McCann has illustrated European citizens' solidarity with the families of missing children and the importance they attach to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our children."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6691711.stm - 25 May 2007
"We are aware of the situation with Madeleine McCann's family. Our thoughts are with them and we hope they have as happy an outcome as we have had."
Ch Insp Kevin Findlater, who led the investigation, said a lot of effort had been put into finding Sadie.
"We put a lot of resources in to finding Sadie - around 50 officers - but we are glad the story has a happy ending," he told the press office.
"We knocked on doors and thanks to good old fashioned policing, we found Sadie behind one of them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6693091.stm - 25 May 2007
Gerry McCann, asked this week by journalists whether the couple had met Mr Murat, declined to comment.
Mr McCann did say, however, that he hoped the media and public would not rush to judgment on anyone.
"As a family we hope that all suspects are treated as we would be - innocent until charged and convicted," he said.
Artur Rego, a local lawyer, expressed surprise that Robert Murat had been declared a suspect by police before they had sufficient evidence to arrest him.
In an interview with the BBC, he said: "I believe that if one single hair of Madeleine had been found in the house he would have been arrested by now."
Interpol is co-ordinating ongoing contacts between police in Portugal, the UK and Morocco.
This is just one of several aspects in which British police have been involved.
From the early days, two officers from Leicestershire were in Praia da Luz and Portimao, and others have since joined them.
Numbers have fluctuated but there are currently five British specialists based in Portugal, while the Portuguese have one in Leicestershire.
A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann confirmed that "at times it can be frustrating" for them, "especially when their questions take time to be answered", although he stressed that the McCanns were aware of the legal restrictions.
The same day, when the McCanns were again visited by Britain's ambassador to Portugal, John Buck, a Portuguese detective was sent in to brief them on the investigation as far as was possible, according to a police spokesman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6692161.stm -25 May 2007

Kate and Gerry McCann told the BBC "no-one will ever feel as guilty as we do" after she disappeared from their apartment as they ate dinner nearby.
The couple said it was "every parent's worst nightmare", but that thousands of other people would have done the same.
Police say they are looking for a white man aged 35 to 40 who was seen in Praia da Luz on the night Madeleine vanished.
The couple said they loved their daughter "more than anyone could imagine" and still believed the "extroverted, vivacious and lively" little girl would be found safe and well.
"If anything really bad had happened we would have found her by now," Mr McCann said.
"She might look like Kate, but in terms of personality she is more of a McCann. She is very funny and often a little ringleader in nursery and with her friends," he said.
Mr McCann said it was "no secret" that the "information void" in the first 48 hours of the investigation was the "hardest thing for Kate and I to deal with".
"It took us back to the darkest places that we didn't want to do and ultimately doesn't help you.
"The worst feeling was helplessness and being completely out of control of anything in terms of getting Madeleine back."
Mrs McCann said: "The first 48 hours were incredibly difficult and we were almost non-functioning I'd say, but after that we got strength from somewhere."
The McCanns said "communication channels" had opened since then: "Certainly at the minute we are happy about how information is conveyed to us."
The couple said criticism of their decision to leave their children in the apartment while they ate had been "hard to deal with".
"No-one will ever feel as guilty as we do over the fact that we weren't with Madeleine at the time when she was abducted," Mr McCann said.
"Whether we were in the bedroom next door we would still feel as guilty."
He said the restaurant had a direct line of sight to the apartment and was "not dissimilar to having dinner in your garden".
And he insisted their half-hourly checks on the children were just as "rigorous" as any official babysitting service.
"If you thought for a moment that someone could abduct your child of course you would never have left them, but that was the furthest thing from our mind after what up until then was an idyllic holiday."
"They'll include her if they're saying, 'Who wants a biscuit?'"
And Mr McCann said the twins helped them carry on and be positive.
"If we had discovered all three of our children had gone we would not have had the same strength, resolution and determination to find Madeleine as Sean and Amelie give us.
"Life continues, but we need to bring Madeleine back as much for them, as for Madeleine, as for us," he added.
He said the fighting fund which has raised almost £300,000 had allowed them to set up a "comprehensive legal team", but at present the family was happy to follow advice not to call in private investigators.
Mr McCann repeated the plea for anyone with information to come forward and to send any photographs of strangers in the resort to the police.
"We believe the public will hold the key. Someone knows something," Mr McCann added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6693463.stm - 25 May 2007
Police searching for Madeleine McCann have issued a description of a man seen walking close to her apartment on the night she disappeared.
The white man, said to be 35 to 40 years old, was seen at about 9.30pm on 3 May in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
He is said to be 5ft 10in, medium build with short hair, and wearing a dark jacket, beige trousers and dark shoes.
Police told a news conference the man was "carrying a child or an object that could have been taken as a child".
Ch Insp Olegario de Sousa urged the man or anyone who had seen him to come forward.
"They will be taking time to consider what the police have said before making any comment," he added.
The McCanns said criticism of them for leaving her was "hard to deal with", but insisted that thousands of other people would have done the same "in such a safe resort".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694303.stm - 26 May 2007
They were spoken by Gerry and Kate McCann in their first major interview since their daughter Madeleine went missing in the Algarve on 3 May.
The Sun believes publicity is the only weapon the McCanns have left.
The Daily Telegraph focuses on the hunt by Portuguese police. A source tells the paper the police have done a good job of liaising with the parents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694275.stm - 26 May 2007

Portuguese police went public with the appeal after pressure from the McCann family to move the investigation on.
BBC correspondent Steve Kingstone in the Algarve said it was the first time the police had given a detailed description of a man they wanted to question.
But it is not known how long detectives had known this information or whether they believed the man abducted Madeleine on 3 May, he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6686567.stm - 26 May 2007
"The guilt will never leave us" is the headline in the Daily Record, The Scotsman, the Scottish Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror.
They report how the parents of kidnapped four-year-old Madeleine McCann told of their guilt over leaving her in their holiday flat while they went out.
The Herald says that police searching for Madeleine issued a detailed description of a possible suspect who was seen on the night she disappeared.
The Press and Journal reveals a friend of Madeleine's parents may have seen her being carried away from their holiday apartment the night she vanished.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694999.stm - 26 May 2007
Mr Brown offered both parents Gerry and Kate "his full support" in their efforts to find the four-year-old, who vanished on the night of 3 May.
In a statement, Mr McCann said the sighting of the man was "significant".
A spokesman for the McCanns said: "I can confirm that telephone conversations have taken place between Gerry McCann and Chancellor Gordon Brown.
"During them, Mr Brown offered both Gerry and Kate his full support in their efforts to find Madeleine, although details of the conversations will remain private.
"The conversations took place against the background of the chancellor's earlier offer to help when he met and spoke to other members of the McCann family in the UK."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6695129.stm - 26 May 2007
He said the sighting of a man "with what appeared to be a child in his arms" was both "significant and relevant to Madeleine's abduction".
The man is said to be white, 5ft 7ins, medium build with short hair.
He was seen on the night Madeleine was taken from the Praia da Luz apartment in the Algarve, Portugal.
Portuguese police went public with the description of the man seen on the night after pressure from the McCann family to move the investigation on.
But the family later said that police had got a crucial fact wrong in the description of the man.
The height of the man given on the Portuguese press release was 170cm (5ft 7ins) but it mistakenly appeared as 5ft 10ins in the English version.
Spokesman for the McCanns, Clarence Mitchell, said the family were happy that a description had been released but hoped every detail "would be absolutely accurate in every respect".
In a statement made to the press, Mr McCann said he and his wife welcomed the release of the "important" information which had come following an amicable and very constructive meeting with Portuguese police.
"We feel sure that this sighting of a man with what appeared to be a child in his arms, is both significant and relevant to Madeleine's abduction," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6693961.stm - 26 May 2007
Stormont Presbyterian Church on the Upper Newtownards Road hosted the prayer service for the missing youngster.
Ministers from Knock Methodist Church, St Mark's Church of Ireland, St Colmcilles's Catholic and Stormont Presbyterian led the prayers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6695743.stm - 27 May 2007

Briton Robert Murat says the details released by detectives were too vague to rule him out of the investigation.
The man was described as white, 5ft 7ins, medium build with short hair.
Madeleine's father, Gerry, said the sighting of the man "with what appeared to be a child in his arms" was "significant" to his daughter's case.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6696497.stm - 27 May 2007
The parents of four-year-old Madeleine McCann are set to visit the Pope to discuss the plight of their daughter, who vanished 24 days ago.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is helping arrange for the McCanns' visit.
"The cardinal is conscious of the prayers of the entire Catholic community in this country for the McCann family at this distressing time.
"Having spoken to Dr Gerry McCann, the cardinal is facilitating the presence of the McCanns at an audience with the Holy Father as soon as is feasible.
"The cardinal also assured Dr McCann of his prayers for the safe release of Madeleine and for the rest of the family."
Mrs McCann told how she and her husband cannot now bear to be parted from their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie at night now and sleep with them in their bed.
Mrs McCann said: "They help us to get through this. We are a strong family and they were so close to
Madeleine, only 20 months apart."
Mrs McCann, 38, described how the couple had struggled to have children and had waited five years for a baby.
When Madeleine arrived she was "absolutely everything" to them, she said.
Describing the "terrifying" moment Madeleine had been taken, she said: "You just don't expect in a million years that this could happen."
But Mr McCann said he still "truly believed" his daughter was alive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6698215.stm - 28 May 2007
A family spokesman said they were "delighted" by the invitation.
Mr McCann said: "We have thanked everyone on several occasions but, you know, some people are just going to absolutely extraordinary lengths to help us. "We'd like to again thank the thousands, if not millions, of people who are doing little things in their own way - either making donations to the fund, distributing posters, taking posters on holiday - anything that people are doing to raise the awareness of Madeleine's disappearance.
"You know, we thank them from the bottoms of our heart and we believe this will make a difference in the search for her."
Later, the two-minute Find Madeleine appeal DVD was shown at Wembley Stadium at the Coca-Cola Championship play-off final between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion.
Advertising business workers Chris Lennox and Les Harle drove the billboard, which is 800 sq ft (75 sq m) when inflated, from Scotland to Portugal over three days.
The pair, who both have children, said the McCann's plight inspired them to act.
Mr Lennox, 35, said: "My heartstrings have been pulled on this and I want to help. I have a family with small kids and my wife has been following this from day one.
"She told me to come out here and do what I could. I am clearly here to help raise awareness."
Kate and Gerry McCann returned at about 2145 GMT to find an empty bed and the apartment door and window wide open.
The apartment has been cordoned off and local people are helping with a search.
Gill Renwick, a friend of the family, said Madeleine's parents - both doctors - had been having a meal in a tapas restaurant a few hundred yards from the apartment and had been checking on the little girl and her younger brother and sister (two-year-old twins) every half hour. Gill Renwick phoned GMTV.
"They're a devoted family and love their children to bits. They live for their children."
Madeleine was reported missing at about 2200 BST on Thursday and tourists joined the police in an all-night search. Her aunt Trish Cameron, who lives in Glasgow, said she felt certain her niece had been abducted.
"They last checked at half past nine and they were all sound asleep, sleeping, windows shut, shutters shut.
"Kate went back at 10 o'clock to check. The front door was lying open, the window had been tampered with, the shutters had been jemmied open or whatever you call it and Madeleine was missing...
"She's an absolutely beautiful, wee blonde girl, blue-green eyes - one distinguishing feature is that one of her pupils runs into the iris of her right eyes. She's an absolutely gorgeous wee girl."
She added: "We feel that what's been going on in Portugal has been ineffectual.
"My brother and sister-in-law are absolutely distraught."
"As you can imagine Madeleine's parents are distraught and not doing very well at all," Mr Hill said.
"It's still questionable as to whether it's abduction," he said.
Doug Skehan, another consultant cardiologist there, said: "(Dr McGann) is a popular hard working colleague, for whom we have great affection.
"The mood in the hospital is one of great concern and we hope that Kate and Gerry will have their daughter back very soon."
Doug Skehan is now a director of the fund
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6626251.stm - 5th May 2007 - Three photos, Madeleine shown below, family portrait and Kate and Gerry.

Pictures of her have been widely distributed, and ports put on alert.
"We cannot describe the anguish and despair we are feeling as parents of our beautiful daughter Madeleine," he said.
"We request that anyone with any information relating to Madeleine's disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the Portuguese police and help us get her back safely."
He then addressed anyone who may be holding Madeleine, saying: "Please, if you have Madeleine, let her come home to her mummy, daddy, brother and sister."
Mark Warner Ocean Summer Club in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz
"Nothing had been touched in the apartment, no valuables taken, no passports," she said.
"They think someone must have come in the window and gone out the door with her."
Relatives have flown out to the resort from Manchester to be with the distraught couple.
Mark Warner UK Operations Director Craig Mayhew and family liaison officers from Leicestershire police are also travelling to Portugal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6627605.stm - 5th May 2007 - Picture of Kate and Gerry included
Doctors Gerry and Kate McCann have spoken of their "anguish and despair".
Relatives have flown to the Algarve to be with the couple, who were holidaying with their three children.
Speaking to press on Friday evening, Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley, pleaded for the return of their "beautiful" Madeleine.
Mr McCann, with his wife at his side, read out an emotional statement outside the holiday apartments on Friday evening.
"We cannot describe the anguish and despair we are feeling as parents of our beautiful daughter Madeleine," he said.
"We request that anyone with any information relating to Madeleine's disappearance, no matter how trivial, contact the Portuguese police and help us get her back safely."
Mr McCann's sister Philomena, criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
She has been in phone contact with her brother.
Speaking from her home in Glasgow, she said: "He thinks it's just too little, too late.
"It was hours before the local police turned up and we're talking two bobbies that totally downplayed the incident and said that Maddie had maybe just wandered off."
However, she said that the family was elated to hear the police believed Madeleine was still alive.
"There was a distinct feeling of elation, you know - but it's been a while since we actually heard it and it's really important to keep your emotions in check," she said.
The Mayor of Lagos, Julio Barraso, defended the police from accusations that they had been too slow to act.
He told BBC News 24: "During all the night of Thursday until Friday they have been here and they started the investigation and I believe that humanly it's not possible to ask for more."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6627493.stm - 5th May 2007 - Headlines
The face of Madeleine McCann, the three-year old British girl feared abducted from a holiday resort in Portugal, appears on many front pages.
The Daily Mail highlights the unlikelihood of such an incident at the retreat for the professional classes.
But the Daily Express says Praia da Luz has become a haven for burglars who target upmarket holidaymakers.
The Express and the Sun both wonder why Madeleine's parents chose not to use the creche and babysitting facilities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6628033.stm - 5th May 2007
When she left the house at 10pm - around the time the McCanns returned to their apartment to find their two-year-old twins still there but Madeleine missing - the streets were deserted, including the one by the McCanns' back gate.
"During the daytime there are lots of people with children, but at that time I saw no one."
The block where the McCanns were staying had no special security precautions, such as a porter or locked gate on to the street.
The family is said to have chosen the resort, run by the company Mark Warner, because of its childcare facilities.
As a second forensics team came in late on Friday to pore over the McCann's apartment once more, residents said nothing like this had ever happened in the village.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6627605.stm - 5th May 2007
In the first official briefing on the case, Guilhermino Encarnacao, director of the judicial police in the Faro region, said officers are working on the assumption she is being held between 3km and 5km (1.8 and 3.1 miles) from the resort. They had about 30 calls from potential witnesses and have created an artist's impression of a suspect.
Madeleine, who turns four next Friday, was last seen by her father at about 2100 local time.
When Mrs McCann went to check on her about an hour later, she found the bedroom's outside shutter and window had been opened and her daughter missing.
British Ambassador John Buck, who is with the McCanns in the Algarve, said they have been joined by three Family Liaison Officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr McCann's sister Philomena, criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
She has been in phone contact with her brother.
Speaking from her home in Glasgow, she said: "He thinks it's just too little, too late.
"It was hours before the local police turned up and we're talking two bobbies that totally downplayed the incident and said that Maddie had maybe just wandered off."
The Mayor of Lagos, Julio Barraso, defended the police from accusations that they had been too slow to act.
He told BBC News 24: "During all the night of Thursday until Friday they have been here and they started the investigation and I believe that humanly it's not possible to ask for more."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6628891.stm - 5th May 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6627799.stm - 6th May 2007
James Wilkinson and his wife, from Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, will be going to Mark Warner in Greece for the fourth year running this summer, with their two children aged four and two.
Mr Wilkinson said: "Mark Warner is a fantastic family holiday where parents can get some time to themselves. "The facilities for the children are probably better than the facilities for the adults. They know if the children are happy the parents will be happy.
"What I do know about this Portugal resort is it is quite different from other Mark Warner resorts.
"All the resorts we've been to have been pretty much self-contained and away from the local town.
"I've never once had any concern at all about safety and security."
The firm, which is based in London, says it is committed to doing all it can to support the McCanns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6629471.stm - 6th May 2007
Gerry McCann said the Catholic mass gave them "strength, courage and hope".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6629091.stm - 6th May 2007
Speaking outside their apartment with his wife, Mr McCann said: "We have no further information regarding the investigation but appreciate the significant effort everyone is making on our behalf.
"We would again like to appeal for any information, however small, that may lead to the safe return of Madeleine."
In a statement on Friday Mr McCann made a first appeal for help and spoke of his family's "anguish and despair".
Prayers will be said in churches in Praia Da Luz on Sunday for the safe return of the girl.
When Mrs McCann went to check on her about an hour later, she found the bedroom's outside shutter and window had been opened and her daughter missing.
Resort staff and guests helped the McCanns search the complex grounds into Friday morning and police were notified.
Pictures of Madeleine have been widely distributed, and ports and the Spanish police put on alert.
British Ambassador John Buck, who is with the McCanns in the Algarve, said they had been joined by three family liaison officers from Leicestershire Police.
Mr McCann's sister Philomena criticised the Portuguese police for initially "playing down" their response to the disappearance.
But she said the family was elated to hear police believed Madeleine was still alive.
"There was a distinct feeling of elation, you know - but it's been a while since we actually heard it and it's really important to keep your emotions in check," she said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6632325.stm - 7th May 2007
Spokesman for PJ appointed after pressure from British Diplomats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6631255.stm - 7th May 2007
Mrs McCann, who had asked to speak to the media, said: "We would like to say a few words to the person who is with our Madeleine, or has been with Madeleine.
"Madeleine is a beautiful, bright, funny and caring little girl. She is so special. Please, please, do not hurt her.
Speaking with husband Gerry at her side, she added: "We beg you to let Madeleine come home. We need our Madeleine."
Her final sentence was in Portuguese - "Por favor, devolva a nossa menina" - which means "Please give our little girl back".
Although they said they had not been well briefed by police, they did know one item they were looking out for was Madeleine's clothing, our correspondent said.
"Police without uniforms moved around a lot about two days ago. They moved around and were asking questions."
Officers have taken records of all boats booked into the marina between 27 April and 6 May.
Asked whether the family were being kept informed, he said: "The family is the number one interest in the case but even then, they must be a little far from the investigation."
Local mayor Julio Barroso told BBC News 24 work was going on behind the scenes to try to find Madeleine.
"Our judicial police are following all the signs, and they are working very hard for all these days and they have many many people involved," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6633759.stm - 7th May 2007 - Headlines
The police operation to find missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann is criticised in the papers.
The Guardian says her parents are "getting frustrated" with the response of police investigating the girl's feared abduction in Portugal.
The Daily Telegraph and Sun say it was the couple, not the police, who decided to make a TV appeal to her abductor.
And it was their idea to detail the pyjamas she was wearing, in an effort to move the investigation forward.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6634075.stm - 8th May 2007
Mother relives fear 16 years on - Ben Needhams mum, Kerry Grist
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6633687.stm - 8th May 2007
Dave Shelton from Manchester, who now lives in the village, has been co-ordinating volunteer searchers.
He told BBC News that each morning a group of up to 20 locals and tourists searched an area around the village, concentrating on ruins, wells and bushes.
"Every morning at eight I go to see the police chief and he decides where we go and gives us our little zone, plus a map.
"We go off and do that area and then report back and tell him we have done the area so he can tick it off."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6634283.stm - 8th May 2007
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) advises forces to treat every missing person case as a major crime investigation.
Its guidance reads: "It is always easier to rein back from the early stages of a major inquiry than it is to recover missed opportunities resulting from miscalculating in the early stages.
"In cases where the circumstances are suspicious or are unexplained, use the maxim: If in doubt, think murder."
This means that once a criminal investigation is under way, police cannot reveal anything about that investigation, including any details about potential suspects.
Europol - But the Europol website states "there must be factual indications that an organised criminal network is involved".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6635463.stm - 8th May 2007
Antonio Santana Carlos said the case was of great concern to Portugal.
Manchester United player Christiano Ronaldo, who is Portuguese, made an appeal for information on MUTV.
The McCanns have said their Catholic faith has offered them hope and strength.
Around the marina in the nearby town of Lagos, maritime police have been searching amid claims a man was seen with a small girl in the area.
And tourist Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex said that two weeks ago she saw a man trying to steal a pushchair at the resort when Madeleine went missing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6633835.stm - 8th May 2007
Alison Hipkin, practice manager of the Latham House Surgery where Kate McCann is a GP, said: "I think that, other than the despair you see on the television, I don't think we can say much more than that.
Dr Doug Skehan, a colleague of the McCanns, added: "There were hundreds of people who interrupted what was a busy, post bank holiday day at the hospital to come down and be with us for a ceremony which was dignified and respectful."
Brian Kennedy, the three-year-old's great uncle who lives a few streets away from the McCanns, said the village vigil was a "wonderful idea".
He said Madeleine's mother must be under tremendous strain but seemed to be keeping her spirits up.
"But as the days go on, it must be very difficult," he added.
He said any analysis of the police investigation had to take second place to the hunt to find Madeleine.
"I think the main thing is to keep up the search. Any shortcomings should be looked at afterwards."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6636869.stm - 8th May 2007
He said additional British experts arrived on Monday to work with the Portuguese on the case.
Footballers including England captain John Terry and Portuguese players Cristiano Ronaldo and Paulo Ferreira, who both play in England, have appealed for anyone with information to come forward. Meanwhile, villagers in Rothley, where the McCanns are from, have held a silent vigil to show support for Madeleine.
Staff at Leicester's three hospitals also joined in prayer for the McCann family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6638171.stm - 9th May 2007
Coronation Street cancel story about abduction.
The story was a major plotline due to run in the top-rated drama for "several months", ITV said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6638793.stm - 9th May 2007
A British holidaymaker who stops to look says that he and his wife, like the McCanns, sometimes left their sleeping children alone in a hotel room while they had dinner nearby.
Another man says when he watched the McCanns make their first, painful statement to the media, he thought how easily it could have been him and his wife standing there.
"There, but for the grace of God," he says.
Her youngest daughter says when she heard of Madeleine's abduction, she was afraid she too could be snatched.
On Tuesday night came the first false alarm - a reported sighting of Madeleine in a small town north of Lisbon, around 370 kilometres (250 miles) away.
Half an hour later, we heard it was a little blonde girl with her father, a local man, who was driving a car with Spanish number plates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6637469.stm- 10th May 2007
he parents' statement, read out by Alex Woolfall, spokesman for the operator of the resort where the family were staying, said: "We are grateful to all of those currently taking part in the search for our daughter Madeleine.
Map of resort
"At present, we are channelling all of our emotions and all of our efforts into the steps that are being taken to secure Madeleine's safe return." Police have also been handed CCTV footage showing a woman with a girl fitting Madeleine's description at a service station just a few miles from where she was abducted.
The woman was said to be urging the girl to say "thank you" to staff, but the youngster had appeared reluctant.
British child-abduction experts have flown to Portugal to join in the hunt.
Mrs Healy told Sky News that the couple, who are Catholic, were drawing strength from each other, prayers, support, sympathy and kindness.
The Anglican church in Praia da Luz held a prayer vigil for Madeleine. Its vicar, Father Haynes Hubbard, said he did not know whether Madeleine's parents would attend but they were aware of the service and were grateful for the desire of people there to remember Madeleine in their prayers.
"We all have deep fears and absolute hope," he said.
Mr Healy said that people who criticised the parents for leaving the children are "misguided and have got it wrong".
Mark Warner Holidays, operator of the resort, said it has received more than 400 messages of support for the McCanns from 20 countries.
An online appeal to help find Madeleine has also been set up.
The appeal, created by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the Virtual Global Taskforce, is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish on www.ceop.gov.uk.
Crimestoppers have also set up an international number - +44 1883 731 336 - which people with information can call anonymously.
Meanwhile, Crimestoppers, which has set up a hotline, says it has been given four "useful" pieces of intelligence.
On Thursday, Crimestoppers said its appeal for information from English-speaking people in Portugal has yielded "four pieces of useful intelligence".
They have been passed onto Leicester police, the lead force in the UK.
Meanwhile, Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, from Glasgow, has countered criticism from those who say the couple were wrong to leave their children alone in the holiday apartment while they ate dinner at a nearby restaurant.
"If you look at the layout of that place, it was entirely safe. The issue at stake here was, that the flat was broken into, and wee Madeleine was abducted," he told BBC Radio Five Live.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6641899.stm - 10th May 2007
Portuguese police have refused to confirm or deny reports that they are searching for two men and a woman.
Meanwhile, photographs of Madeleine wearing an Everton FC shirt have been released by the club.
Another service will he held later on Merseyside, organised by friends of the family and led by Father Paul Seddon, who married the McCanns and baptised Madeleine.
Superintendent Graham Hill of Surrey police, who investigated the disappearance and murder of Surrey schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, is among them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6644615.stm - 10th May 2007
Items of clothing found locally did not belong to Madeleine, he said.
Police with dogs searched the McCann's apartment again on Thursday evening, while the family chose to remain at a police station outside the Algarve town.
Police said it is the final time they will search the block to look for clues. The wider search in the area will end in the next few days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6642115.stm - 11 May 2007
Stephen Winyard offered £1m reward.
Prayer vigil in Glasgow. The prayer service in Glasgow will appeal for the safe return of the child, who was abducted in the Algarve.
Monsignor Christopher McElroy, the cathedral administrator, said: "People of all faiths and none have watched with mounting anxiety as the search for Madeleine continues.
"The prayer service we are organising will help people to overcome that sense of helplessness which we all naturally experience.
"We will allow people the opportunity to reflect, to pray and to keep alive their hope that Madeleine can be found alive and well.
"The service is open to people of all faiths. Whether they want to come and simply sit quietly or light a candle, or join in the prayers and hymns they will be very welcome."
Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, said: "Although I won't be able to be present at the vigil in person, due to prior engagements, I will be very much united with all who gather in prayer for Madeleine and her parents.
"My own prayers and those of countless others continue for the safe return of the little girl and an end to this horrific ordeal for the family."
Villagers in Rothley held a silent vigil for the family on Tuesday.
Phil McCann said she was in regular contact with Madeleine's parents in Portugal.
She said they were "overwhelmed" by the reaction in Scotland to their daughter's disappearance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6645559.stm - 11 May 2007
The front of the Belfast Telegraph shows a snapshot of a smiling family on an Easter break in Donegal, with five children licking melting icecream cones in the bright sunshine.
The brother, sisters and cousins are sitting on the kerb in Gweedore, but the headline spells out the tragedy that now casts a dark cloud over the grinning children.
"Maddy: happy in Donegal" depicts the then carefree and the currently missing Madeleine McCann, who should, the paper says "be looking forward to her fourth birthday tomorrow".
The three year-old and her siblings spent Easter with relatives in Dungloe, but the youngster disappeared just over a week ago in Portugal.
Now the paper tells us that the search for the three year-old has been extended across Europe. Madeleine's Ulster-born aunt Phil McCann has designed a Missing poster, which she hopes may be shown on television during the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow night. The Portuguese police search is meanwhile being wound down.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6629399.stm - Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6647585.stm - 11 May 2007
Party plans put on hold.
Led by their chaplain, Father Haynes Hubbard, on Thursday morning they said prayers for Madeleine at the church.
"You go to sleep thinking about her and wake up thinking about her," said Sally, who runs a clothes shop just down the road from the apartment where the McCanns were staying when Madeleine disappeared.
"I've got a guesthouse and everyone's talking about it."
Is this Sally Evleigh - Murat’s cousin?
"The police are amazing," she said.
"They're barely getting any sleep, they're working so hard to try to find her. Many of them have children themselves."
Gerry McCann on Friday told the media outside the resort complex in Praia da Luz where he and his wife Kate are still staying that the couple "remain positive and focused on the investigation".
They had, he said in a prepared statement, "seen at first hand how hard the police are working in the search for Madeleine and their strong desire to find her" and would themselves "leave no stone unturned in the search for our daughter".
The couple spent all Thursday afternoon and much of the evening at the police station in the town of Portimao, where the investigation is being co-ordinated.
The McCanns were interviewed along with some of the friends who had come on holiday with them, but police said that none were suspects.
Jenny Murat, a retired nurse, at lunchtime on Friday set up a roadside stall in the middle of Praia da Luz, decked with posters in Portuguese asking people to come forward with information.
"I know lots of people won't talk to police, for example because they're letting out an apartment that isn't registered with the council, but they can talk to an independent person.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6645341.stm - 11th May 2007
A message from the McCanns thanking people for their support has been read out at a service at St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Glasgow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6647945.stm - 11 May 2007
Hundreds of people attended a prayer service for Madeleine McCann in Glasgow as the search for the missing girl continued in the Algarve.
People queued round the block and many were unable to get inside St Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral for the service on Friday evening.
His colleagues in the medical profession organised the vigil, which took place at the cathedral in Clyde Street.
Madeleine's uncle, John McCann, told the prayer service that Mr and Mrs McCann had sent an email message to those attending the vigil.
They said: "Thanks to everyone for their messages and actions of support.
"This is exactly what we need in this trying time. Please continue to drive support around Europe. Get people to access information.
"We remain confident that Madeleine will be found soon and your prayers and efforts will bring this about."
Celtic and Aberdeen footballers will wear yellow ribbons at their game on Saturday, following a request from Madeleine's aunt Phil McCann.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6648865.stm - 11 May 2007 Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6649081.stm - 11 May 2007 - Headlines
The continuing search for Madeleine McCann, who turns four on Saturday, is the lead story in several papers.
The Independent has the headline: "A stolen child, a missed birthday, a baffling mystery".
The Sun urges its readers to wear yellow clothing today to show their support for her family.
And in the Express, it is the cruellest of days for Madeleine's parents. The paper's report is accompanied by the headline: "The saddest birthday".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6631417.stm - 11 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6649351.stm - 12 May 2007
A group of schoolgirls from Madeleine McCann's home village are handing out missing posters to holiday makers at East Midlands Airport. Molly Arthur
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6648995.stm - 12 May 2007
Chancellor Gordon Brown said every parent would be thinking of the McCann family and what they could do to help.
A group of business people and celebrities, backed by the News of the World newspaper, have pledged a total of £1.5m in reward money.
Donors include Sir Richard Branson, Top Shop's Sir Philip Green and the paper itself, which has put up £250,000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6649319.stm - 12 May 2007
Members of Madeleine's family, including her aunt Philomena McCann, were at the game.
They will later hold a private family gathering at the Glasgow home of Madeleine's uncle John McCann, before praying for her safe return.
In a statement, Gerry and Kate McCann asked people to "redouble their efforts" to help find their daughter.
Mr Craddock said the group received some funding from Kent Police but also relied on charity appeals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650159.stm - 12 May 2007
Kate Gurnett, who organised the event said that the idea of tying yellow ribbons dated back to the Second World War when they were placed in windows by the wives of soldiers at the front.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6649951.stm - 12 May 2007
Fifty pink balloons were released at the village of Queniborough, close to Rothley, on Saturday, where Madeleine lived until a year ago.
"Keep looking, please keep praying, please help bring Madeleine home," they said.
"They can join my e-mail campaign sending my poster to everyone that they know," she said.
An official website "Bring Madeleine Home" has been set up by family friends.
"The target is to get Madeleine's face seen and, if she's recognised, there's a Crimestoppers number they can ring."
"Fifteen thousand copies - it was magnificent. and they put Madeleine's image on the big screen several times. Celtic are known as the Lisbon Lions - the links with Portugal are not tenuous.
"We have had such fantastic support from the world of football, business and the general population have been stupendous.
"I've never been cuddled so much in my life as I was today."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6650367.stm - 12 May 2007 - Pictures
Mr McCann, along with wife Kate, said: "Today we should be celebrating the fourth birthday of our daughter Madeleine.
"Instead we have had to remember what a normal, beautiful, vivacious, funny, courageous and loving little girl that we are missing today.
"I like to think about the effects of Madeleine's abduction from us nine days ago like a tidal wave."
He said: "The devastation affects everyone we meet here in the resort and has affected this community. "The tidal wave did not stop here, it has travelled many miles across Europe, across the sea to Glasgow, Liverpool, Leicester, Ireland, America, Canada, New Zealand and continental Europe, where we have many friends and family."
He thanked those who had prayed or shown support to the family, such as sticking up posters or emailing friends and contacts throughout Europe.
"They have taken our strength and they are taking action, these actions are to make Madeleine's disappearance more public in the hope that we will get her back sooner as a result."
Fifty pink balloons were released at the village of Queniborough, close to Rothley, on Saturday, where Madeleine lived until a year ago.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650765.stm - 13 May 2007 - Headlines
The Sunday Express, along with News of the World and the Sunday Telegraph suggest Madeleine may have been bundled into a white van.
They report a police source said one was seen several days in a row outside the McCann's Algarve apartment complex.
But the Independent on Sunday dismisses it saying it is no more significant than many other leads that have "evaporated in the past ten days".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6650951.stm - 13 May 2007
Fitness coach Nicola Gill who is a friend of Madeleine's mother, Liverpool-born GP Kate McCann, has flown back from Portugal for the run.
Many runners are also expected to be wearing T shirts showing Madeleine's picture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6651037.stm - 13 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
The Scottish News of the World says it has put up a record £1.5m reward for the toddler's safe return.
The Sunday Herald reports that the family have issued a distinctive picture of the missing youngster in the hope that it will help the public identify her.
Scotland on Sunday deals with the family's distress on what was Madeleine's fourth birthday.
It was the cruellest day any mother could face, writes the Sunday Mirror.
The Scottish Sunday Express describes a "tidal wave" of devastation wreaked by the abduction.
The family of snatched Madeleine McCann will use Bryan Adams' biggest hit in an emotional video appeal, reports the Sunday Mail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6649647.stm - 13 May 2007
Diane McCann handed out posters and T-shirts and urged runners to wear yellow ribbons.
Before the race in Glasgow, Diane McCann told BBC Scotland: "We're hoping to show solidarity for the family and show everybody that we are rooting for Madeleine to come home as soon as possible.
"We hope that as many women as possible want to wear a T-shirt or will pin the poster of Madeleine on the back of the T-shirt that they have on." Madeleine's uncle John, who also stays in Glasgow, said the nature of a planned party to mark her fourth birthday changed.
He said: "We had a significant moment of contemplation and prayer and wishing she was back with us again."
Meanwhile, Madeleine's granmother appealed to those holding their "shining star" to "take her somewhere safe" so she can be returned home.
Susan Healy told BBC News that people should look out for her granddaughter's distinctive "black flash" in her eye, where her pupil runs into her iris.
Mrs Healy was speaking while attending the annual Liverpool 10K race, where runners were also wearing T-shirts bearing Madeleine's photo to raise awareness of the missing youngster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6650711.stm - 13 May 2007
Relatives have released posters drawing attention to a distinctive marking in the youngster's right eye.
They hope that the picture - which clearly shows how Madeleine's pupil runs into her blue-green iris - will make her easily recognisable.
Some of the nine people who were questioned on Thursday and Friday - mainly family and friends of the McCanns - may be asked to make formal court statements, BBC correspondent Alison Roberts said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6651307.stm - 13 May 2007
Joining the service was the English priest who married Kate and Gerry McCann and later baptised Madeleine. Father Paul Seddon, of the Our Lady of Compassion church in Formby, near Liverpool, flew out to support the couple in Portugal.
A legal team has flown out to assist the family in Praia da Luz.
The lawyers are understood to be helping set up a special "fighting fund" to continue the search for Madeleine using donations from the public and to help the family with liaison.
Asking people to look out for her granddaughter, Mrs Healy said: "Please look at children, don't be afraid, go and look at children, look for this black flash that goes from her pupil to the iris of the eye.
"And if the people who have got Madeleine realise that she has this distinctive marking, take her somewhere safe. Leave her, you can run off, we don't care whether you get caught, that doesn't matter. We just want Madeleine back."
Describing the little girl, she said: "Madeleine is a bright, shiny star .... she is special".
They have formally interviewed a 12th person as part of their investigations, but say no individual is being considered a suspect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652611.stm - 14 May 2007
The legal team, which has flown out to Portugal, will reveal details of the fund within the next few days.
The lawyers will help with liaison and will not interfere with the inquiry, Madeleine's uncle John McCann has said.
A spokesman for the International Family Law Group, the legal company helping the McCanns, said: "Gerry and Kate are very grateful for all the support and generous offers of help that they are receiving.
"Details of how contributions can be made to help get Madeleine back to the safety of her own family will be made available in the next couple of days."
Meanwhile, a group of about 10 British people, including the McCanns and their friends, have been reinterviewed to clarify their statements.
They are expected to record video evidence in court this week for any future trial.
Local lawyer Artur Rego said the procedure was only used in exceptional circumstances when a large number of witnesses were foreigners.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652757.stm - 14 May 2007
A bleak assessment of the search for Madeleine McCann is revealed in several of Monday's newspapers.
The Sun quotes a Portuguese police inspector admitting that his team do not have a single lead.
The Daily Telegraph takes a similar line, saying the police are back at "square one."
And the Mirror's front page is dominated by its news that Gerry and Kate McCann have vowed to stay in Portugal until their daughter is found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6653307.stm - 14 May 2007
How effective are rewards?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6655073.stm - 14 May 2007
Mr Morgan said he was prompted to organise the prayer vigil by "simple human feelings" as he watched some of his 10 grandchildren play .
"You cannot inflict a bigger hurt on parents than this and I just want to let Madeleine's parents know that they are in the thoughts of, and have the supoprt of people, in this part of the world," he said.
They have also said that they believe that Madeleine is being cared for wherever she is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6652937.stm - 14 May 2007
He said they considered that until there was "concrete evidence to the contrary, we believe Madeleine is safe and is being looked after".
Mr McCann added: "The thrust of the search for Madeleine is the investigation, which we are fully supporting.
"We have brought in the lawyers to advise us what else can be done. I don't know what that is at the minute."
His wife said: "We can't even consider returning home at the moment, can't even let it enter my head."
A spokesman for the International Family Law Group, the legal company helping the McCanns, said: "Gerry and Kate are very grateful for all the support and generous offers of help that they are receiving.
"Details of how contributions can be made to help get Madeleine back to the safety of her own family will be made available in the next couple of days."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6655263.stm - 14 May 2007
She said: "It's all about a young, vulnerable person being taken away from the bosom of their family where they belong and that has hit everybody really hard."
Asked how the child's parents were bearing up, she said: "When I see Gerry, that's not him. That's a stressed-out individual that I barely recognise.
"When I see him and Kate, I just worry about the level of stress on them because they look exhausted. You hear it in his voice all the time, it's cracking."
She said: "We are a huge conglomerate now of countries that are joined together without borders.
"There is nothing to stop her abductor taking her anywhere and we just need to know that it is as big a priority in Europe as it is in this country finding her."
“All of us in parliament, I am sure, would wish to do what we can to learn any lessons there may be from this particular incident in order to ensure that European law enforcement agencies work together effectively and quickly in these circumstances in the future." - Jack McConnell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6655907.stm - 15 May 2007
The search began on Monday after Sunday Mirror journalist Lori Campbell spoke to police and the British Embassy about Mr Murat, who has become well known to journalists during the search for Madeleine.
Mr Murat, who described himself as half-Portuguese and told journalists he had been helping police with translation work during the investigation, is a frequent visitor to Casa Liliana.
He is believed to have moved on his own to Portugal three years ago. He had been living with his wife and family in Hockering, Norfolk.
"And the family has a very good reputation and a very good name." - Catherine Roberts
The British ambassador to Portugal, John Buck, said the McCanns were showing "remarkable resilience and dignity".
He also said there were "impressive resources" being devoted to the investigation by the Portuguese authorities.
The collaboration between the Portuguese and British police was "truly exceptional", Mr Buck added.
In the UK, a text message urging mothers to pray for Madeleine's safe return to her family is being passed on by mobile phone and in internet forums.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6656471.stm - 15 May 2007 - Headlines
Most carry a picture of Robert Murat, a British man believed to be being questioned by Portuguese police.
A Daily Telegraph journalist says he was the first person she met on her arrival, while a Daily Mail reporter says he looked like an official.
In the Daily Express British ambassador John Buck praises the work of the Portuguese authorities in the inquiry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6656599.stm - 15 May 2007 - Headlines
Journalist Fionola Meredith takes a look at what is making the headlines in Tuesday's morning papers.
As the search for little Madeleine McCann continues, the Portuguese police have only confirmed that more than one person is being questioned, but not arrested.
Despite that minimal information, there are many column-inches - especially in the red-tops - devoted to the supposed identity of those under question and to the intensive police searches of a villa close to where Madeleine went missing.
The Irish News leads with this story and the Belfast Telegraph launches a poster appeal, aimed at local people going on holiday in Portugal, and featuring a striking image of the distinctive "black flash" on the iris of the child's right eye.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6656599.stm - 15 May 2007
BBC correspondent Richard Bilton said a British man in his 30s has been given arguido status.
It is understood the other people questioned were a German woman and a Portuguese man.
Mr Murat's uncle, Ralph Eveleigh, who runs a bed and breakfast in the nearby village of Burgau, said his nephew had an alibi for the night Madeleine went missing.
"His mother says that on the night the kid disappeared they were both in the house together all night," he said.
"Robert is so sweet and good-natured. He was just trying to help."
Mr Murat's cousin, Sally Eveleigh, said there was "absolutely no way" he could have had anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance
On Monday, her parents Kate and Gerry McCann said they would not return to the UK until she was found safe and well.
Mr McCann, who is originally from Glasgow, said the couple would continue to believe she was being cared for until they received "concrete evidence to the contrary".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6659327.stm - 16 May 2007
In an off-camera interview, Mr Murat, the father of a four-year-old daughter, told Sky News: "This has ruined my life and made my life very difficult for my family here and in Britain.
"The only way I will survive this is if they catch Madeleine's abductor."
He added: "I've been made a scapegoat for something I did not do."
The suspect has signed an identity and residence statement which prevents him from moving house or leaving the country, and requires him to regularly report to police.
Meanwhile, Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann were joined by about 15 of their friends and several villagers at a private church service in Praia da Luz.
The service was held jointly by a Portuguese priest and Father Paul Seddon who baptised Madeleine and has flown out to the Algarve to support her family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660351.stm - 15 May 2007
The man named as the sole suspect in the hunt for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal is again pictured on many front pages.
The Daily Telegraph says despite the questioning of Briton Robert Murat and a search at his home, police do not have the evidence to charge him.
The Daily Mail says Mr Murat claims his life has been ruined by being named as a suspect in the case.
Meanwhile, the Sun claims Mr Murat had been involved in a "love triangle".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6660759.stm - 15 May 2007
The man formally named as a suspect in the case, Robert Murat, appears on many of the front pages.
The Daily Telegraph and the Mirror both report on what the latter describes as "his tangled love life".
The Sun and the Mail both report on the main suspect's denial of any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.
The Mail says he has complained of "being made a scapegoat", and he was under surveillance for a week before being questioned.
After all the concentration on Tony Blair in the past week, the Guardian carries a wide-ranging interview with an almost forgotten man - the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.
Among other things, he tells the paper that he is "immensely proud of his contribution to the government".
The Independent bids him a less charitable farewell, looking at his "less than expert use of the English language".
The paper notes that he "often dispensed with verbs".
It carries a quote from Matthew Parris, of the Times, who said: "Once a Prescott speech begins, nobody - least of all Mr Prescott - can be sure where it'll end.
"Nothing is certain except that sooner or later the wheels will come off."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660621.stm - 16 May 2007
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had given a brief news conference earlier in the day - the first time they took questions from journalists as well as giving a statement.
They seemed to be settling in for the long haul - setting up a fighting fund to continue the search for Madeleine and engaging lawyers.
Even their anguish at Madeleine's disappearance had lost its frenzied, keening edge and had taken on a tone of valiant determination.
Rewards had been offered; awareness had been raised, both in Portugal and in Britain. There had been prayer vigils, campaigns launched, appeals by footballers, tycoons and JK Rowling.
None of them had succeeded in returning Madeleine to her parents.
The media had gathered at the police barrier outside the McCanns' holiday apartment to wait for a statement from the British ambassador to Portugal, John Buck.
Not that anyone expected him to say anything radically new. There seemed nothing new left to say.
Road run
Suddenly, there was a flurry of movement - photographers and reporters were running down the road, away from the crash barrier and the police van that have stood outside the Mark Warner apartment complex since 4 May, the morning after Madeleine's disappearance.
I ran after them. There wasn't far to go. They, and I, skidded to a halt about 100 yards (90 metres) away, at the end of the street, the gated entrance to a low white villa, only partly visible through the hedge. Casa Liliana, it said on the blue-and-white tile at the entrance. Police were guarding the entrance. Over the gate, we could see figures moving around in the courtyard. One of them appeared to be wearing a white forensic suit.
"That's Robert's house!" The word went round in seconds.
All the journalists who'd been there since the beginning knew Robert. In his neatly pressed chinos and short-sleeved shirts, hair slicked back, eyes half-obscured behind tinted spectacles, he looked like some kind of official, perhaps from the British embassy.
I'd spoken to him myself.
"Just call me Robert," he said, as we sat on the pavement under the shade of the trees outside the McCanns' apartment.
He didn't want to give his surname. He had grown up in Portugal, he told me, before returning to Britain in his mid-teens. He spoke both English and Portuguese fluently, so was helping the police with translation and liaising with the media, he said. He'd recently come back to the Algarve and was doing something in property.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6660009.stm - 16 May 2007
Glasgow MP Mohammed Sarwar, who will accompany her, said the McCann family had "the full support of the British government".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6657977.stm - 16 May 2007
Q and A on arguido status
Arguido status gives a range of legal protections, such as the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer during questioning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6661113.stm - 16 May 2007
Chancellor Gordon Brown has told relatives of missing Madeleine McCann he will help "in any way he can".
Philomena McCann, lobbying MPs for support in the search for her niece, four, said he was "extremely helpful".
British suspect Robert Murat, 33, has said he is "a scapegoat". Police have searched his mother's Algarve villa, close to where Madeleine was last seen.
A fighting fund will be launched later at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester, to help cover escalating legal bills.
She said Mr Brown had offered support on "a practical and a personal level" in their meeting.
She added: "For someone to abduct Madeleine, we're aware they would want such a beautiful, caring little girl as she is, and I can totally understand them.
"But give her back, she isn't yours, we want her home and safe."
Tuck Price, a friend of the family, said Mr Murat was keen to get the focus "back on Madeleine and away from him".
"His daughter is now in hiding in the UK," he added.
"The one thing, the compassionate thing, that made him get involved in the case has put his daughter in this horrible position."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6658465.stm - 16 May 2007
Gerry has read out clear and simple statements appealing for information about Madeleine with his wife, visibly distressed, often by his side.
Not only have the McCanns appeared before the cameras at the resort where they were staying in Praia da Luz, Algarve, they have also released a steady stream of pictures of their daughter.
Photographs of "Maddy" - as newspapers have begun to refer to her - smiling in an Everton shirt or wearing a pink hat have become instantly recognisable in countries across the world.
Extended members of the McCann family in the UK have also played their part, giving media interviews and launching a chain e-mail campaign.
As part of the fighting fund launch, the website www.findmadeleine.com was set up.
Paul Tuohy, chief executive of the National Missing Persons Helpline, said: "The media strategy of the family has been a huge success.
David Hodson, of the International Family Law Group, which is advising the McCann family, said: "The family have been very aware of the importance of the media being used as a means to find their daughter.
"They have not been giving individual interviews. They have taken a view they want to reach the maximum number of people."
http://www.davidhodson.com/biog/biog_3.asp - Lawyer
"This fund will be a vehicle to help our family get our darling, wee niece back."
It was also announced that any money raised not needed for the search for Madeleine would be used to help find missing children in the UK, Portugal and elsewhere.
"If, as a result of this fund, and as a result of getting Madeleine back, we can help other families in a similar situation that would be fantastic," Mr McCann added.
Also at the launch, colleagues of Madeleine's mother Kate and father Gerry paid tribute to the couple as "very successful doctors within our community".
She is a GP and he is a consultant cardiologist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6662723.stm - 16 May 2007
The fund was launched at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester by Madeleine's uncle John McCann.
Earlier, Chancellor Gordon Brown told relatives of the four-year-old he would help "in any way he can".
Speaking at the launch, Mr McCann said: "This fund will be a vehicle to help our family get our darling, wee niece back."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6663289.stm - 16 May 2007
After all the complaints from British journalists about poor communications on the part of police, local journalists are, Freitas adds, now faced with a Foreign Office-appointed spokeswoman for the McCann family who does not speak the local language.
"This is a very British case," admits Mr Freitas.
"The parents are British, resort staff are British and now so is the suspect. But it is a strange situation - her not speaking Portuguese."
The villa - less than 100 yards from the McCann's holiday apartment - from which the man later declared a suspect was taken, is inhabited by a retired British nurse, Jenny Murat, and her son Robert.
The next day, with his life and character ruthlessly dissected by the British tabloids, he reportedly said he was being made a scapegoat and that only if Madeleine's abductor is found will he survive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6664081.stm - 16 May 2006
The pictures of Madeleine received warm applause during the clash between Sevilla and Espanyol at Hampden Park.
The two-minute, Find Madeleine film was screened in a bid to raise awareness of the case in Spain, amid fears abductors may have taken her there from Portugal.
Leaflets with pictures of the four-year-old were also put on seats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6663177.stm - 16 May 2007
Sally Eveleigh, speaking in the Algarve on behalf of Robert Murat, 33, said her relative vehemently denied involvement in the four-year-old's disappearance.
Police have removed computer equipment from another house in Praia da Luz and taken a Russian man for questioning.
Meanwhile, a fighting fund to cover rising search costs has been launched.
Mr Murat's estranged wife Dawn said she was "assisting police in any way she could".
Mrs Murat, of Hockering, Norfolk, said she was going through a "very difficult time" as a result of the focus on her husband.
"This is a very difficult time for my family," said Mrs Murat in a statement issued via Norfolk Police.
"I am assisting the police in any way I can."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6664071.stm
More than 100 people have gathered in Downpatrick to hold a vigil in support of missing child Madeleine McCann.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6664473.stm - Headlines - Irish
The News Letter joins many of the other papers in carrying several pages on the search for Madeleine McCann.
It focuses in particular on the words of the DUP MP Iris Robinson, who met Madeleine's aunt and uncle at Westminster on Wednesday. She urges everyone to pray for her safe return.
The angle on the story in the British papers is the questioning of a Russian man in connection with the disappearance.
According to the Daily Express, he was picked up after a conversation between him and the British suspect, Robert Murat, was captured on a bugged phone.
The Russian man, Sergey Malinka, apparently helped to set up Mr Murat's website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6664271.stm - 17 May 2007
Mr Malinka is believed to have designed a website for Mr Murat's property business. He is said to have contacted detectives himself after reading reports police were probing connections between Mr Murat and a Russian.
On Wednesday, Madeleine's aunt, Philomena McCann, visited Parliament to lobby MPs and peers and a fighting fund to help cover the cost of the search was launched.
Any money raised not needed for the search for Madeleine would be used to help find missing children in the UK, Portugal and elsewhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6666645.stm - 17 May 2007
Michael Wright, a close relative of Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate, said a campaign website has had more than five million visitors.
Speaking in Praia da Luz, Mr Wright said: "Gerry and Kate are taking immense strength from the support and good wishes that they are receiving from all over the world.
"They have been totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations.
"Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
He said a fund launched with the website on Wednesday would pay for the campaign and to hire experts in publicity and detection.
There has been speculation the family may hire private investigators to look for Madeleine, who vanished from her bed when her parents were at a nearby restaurant on 3 May.
Mr Wright said companies had agreed to include Madeleine's image on outgoing emails while others have promised text message campaigns, poster distribution and financial support.
Speaking in Praia da Luz, Mr Wright said: "Gerry and Kate are taking immense strength from the support and good wishes that they are receiving from all over the world.
"They have been totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations.
"Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
He said a fund launched with the website on Wednesday would pay for the campaign and to hire experts in publicity and detection.
There has been speculation the family may hire private investigators to look for Madeleine, who vanished from her bed when her parents were at a nearby restaurant on 3 May.
Mr Wright said companies had agreed to include Madeleine's image on outgoing emails while others have promised text message campaigns, poster distribution and financial support.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/6667247.stm - 17 May 2007
The notices in Hockering, near Norwich, contain Robert Murat's photograph and the words: "Rob is innocent."
The Norfolk posters were made by Carla Cunha, 33, a Portuguese care worker who lives in Hockering.
Mrs Cunha and her husband Antonio, said Mr Murat and his wife Dawn, helped them find work when they first came to the UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6667307.stm - 17 May 2007
Portuguese police searching for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann insist their inquiry is not struggling.
Ch Insp Olegario de Sousa told a news conference the inquiry was "going on" but emphasised that Portuguese law restricted what police could reveal.
Any information given to the police was studied and various departments were analysing photos, he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6668547.stm - 18 May 2007
A British businessman has paid for 20,000 posters of missing Madeleine McCann to give to motorists.
John Sandford-Hart will hand out the self-adhesive posters to car, lorry and van drivers on the A303 from Andover, Hants, to Amesbury, Wilts.
Mr Sandford-Hart said the story was brought home to him as he has a three-year-old son. He added that he had received the backing of police.
"We will also have donation buckets out for the fighting fund."
"It's important that everybody helps. If one poster out of 20,000 makes a difference, it's worth it."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6668479.stm - 18 May 2007
The DVD entitled Find Madeleine will be shown at the match between Chelsea and Manchester United, the FA said.
The film, made by the campaign to raise awareness of Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal on 3 May, has already been shown at the Uefa Cup final.
Producers of a website set up to find the four-year-old from Leicestershire say it has received more than 58m hits.
Figures for donations to a cash fund to pay for the campaign are expected to be revealed later.
The website, meanwhile, has received more than 16,000 messages of support since its launch on Wednesday.
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry were said by one of the campaign organisers to have been "totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies, and large multi-national corporations".
Michael Wright, Mrs McCann's brother-in-law, added: "Both of them are firmly fixed on the campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine's profile right across Europe and ensure we bring her home."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6671023.stm - 19 May 2007
Madeleine's great-uncle Brian Kennedy, said: "It's the tip of the iceberg. The figure I have heard likely to be contributed is very considerable."
NatWest's David Brinsford said: "As yet funds taken in over the counters of NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland have not hit the account and will swell the balance further when they start to filter through next week."
A DVD entitled Find Madeleine will be shown at the match between Chelsea and Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, the FA said.
"He has told me he has experienced something in the church which set him on his way. "He spoke to me about feeling like he was in a tunnel but not at the far end where light seems far away."
A Leicestershire police spokeswoman also confirmed that a Portuguese detective inspector had visited the English force's incident room to speak to officers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6672013.stm - 19 May 2007 - Headlines
The story of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann dominates the front pages again.
The Daily Mirror focuses on a possible sighting of the little girl in Marrakech, Morocco by a Norwegian tourist.
The Daily Mail claims conmen are cashing in on the case by launching bogus, profit-making websites with similar names to the official one set up by relatives.
And the Daily Telegraph says Portuguese police are under fire again, this time for not checking CCTV footage of traffic leaving the resort of Praia da Luz after Madeleine disappeared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6652779.stm - 19 May 2007 - Scottish Headlines
The Daily Record says Portuguese police are investigating a possible sighting of missing Madeleine McCann in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.
The Scottish Daily Express also reports on the case of the missing toddler and says the main suspect at the centre of the investigation reportedly asked a number of people to give him an alibi for the night she was snatched.
The Scottish Daily Mail says the desperate search for Madeleine has been hijacked by conmen cashing in on her family's heartache.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6672003.stm - 19 May 2007
The two-minute video to Simple Minds' song Don't You (Forget About Me) was shown on big screens at Wembley Stadium before kick-off and during half-time.
The force said a number of reported sightings were being investigated, including one made by a Norwegian tourist in Marrakech on 9 May.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673601.stm - 20 May 2007
Kate and Gerry McCann let cameras capture them laughing with two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
The family are seen eating beans on toast and sausages, and playing with a Thomas the Tank Engine toy.
He said they made time to play games and tell stories to the twins, who "still think they're on holiday".
The two-year-olds spend much of the day at the resort's Kids' Club, where "Amelie particularly likes to look after 'babies'", Mr McCann added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6673651.stm - 20 May 2007
The dignity being showed by Madeleine McCann's family is widely covered in the morning's newspapers.
The Sunday Mirror's front page is dominated by a newly-released picture of Kate and Gerry McCann - showing the couple with their two-year-old twins.
The News of the World remarks that after 17 days of torment, the McCanns are still displaying awe-inspiring strength and dignity.
The papers also publish extracts from a diary being kept by the McCanns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6675369.stm - 21 May 2007 - Headlines
The anguish of the family of Madeleine McCann also remains in the news, as her father returns to the UK for the first time since she disappeared.
The Times reports that the McCanns are considering hiring private detectives to help find the four-year-old.
The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, says a minute's silence will be held at noon on Monday in Portugal to remember Madeleine.
Kate and Gerry McCann plan to set off on "a worldwide mission" to the "four corners of the earth" to find their daughter, the Daily Express claims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6674623.stm - 21 May 2007
The father of missing Madeleine McCann has flown back to the UK from Portugal to meet organisers of the campaign to find his daughter.
Gerry McCann is expected to spend just over 24 hours away from his wife Kate and two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
He will also deal with personal matters during the family's first time apart since Madeleine's abduction on 3 May.
Madeleine's great-uncle, Brian Kennedy, said "astonishing" public support had kept them going through "bleak" times.
Mr McCann arrived at East Midlands Airport in the early hours of Monday morning.
In addition to meeting campaign organisers, it is thought his visit will also help arrange for the family to stay in Portugal for the foreseeable future.
Mr McCann will return to Portugal on Tuesday morning.
A spokeswoman for the family in the Algarve, said Mr McCann was returning "to deal with some personal matters and he will be talking to the people who are organising the fund".
She emphasised he was returning to Britain for "very practical reasons" and would return as quickly as he could.
Mr Kennedy said Madeleine's relatives were aware of Mr McCann's "brief, private visit home" which "was mainly regarding legal matters"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6668801.stm - 21 May 2007
But in this case, the community affected has grown exponentially. England's cricketers wore yellow ribbons for the lost girl during the first test against the West Indies. So, too, did many MPs last Wednesday, when Madeleine's aunt came to meet Gordon Brown and John Prescott (Tony Blair being otherwise engaged at the White House).
But when disaster strikes closer to home and to child one half recognises - many see their own daughter, sister, grand-daughter or cousin in Madeleine's round face and open smile - it brings to the surface our darkest and least rational fears.
"There are thousands of distressing things happening every day, but this has touched me as much - it collides so much with my safe little world," says Claude Knights, of the charity Kidscape.
"Madeleine's face, Sarah Payne's face, Holly and Jessica in their red shirts under the clock - because these are vivid images, they bypass the logical centres in one's brain and that deep primal instinct to protect is triggered. It makes us more and more fearful and this is damaging in itself to childhood."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6677037.stm - 21 May 2007
One minute silence in Portugal.
The silence was initiated by an anonymous chain email circulated around the country at the weekend, and was observed at midday.
Mr McCann is a consultant cardiologist at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital and his friend and colleague Dr Doug Skehan said he would be involved in meetings for most of Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6679045.stm - 22 May 2007
Mothers raise money for Madeleine
The 50-strong United Mothers group was formed as a result of the child's disappearance in Portugal 19 days ago.
As well as hosting a fundraiser, they ae urging all Northern Ireland primary schools to have a 'yellow ribbon day', to support Madeleine's family.
The campaign's Aine Elmore said that rather than just thinking about what happened, they wanted to take action.
"I have a daughter who's three months younger than Madeleine. I wake up in the night thinking about her and to check on her," she said.
"I can really feel for the McCann family and think 'what are they going through?' and rather than sitting thinking about it let's do something about it - let's try and get Madeleine back home.
"Mothers were standing at the school gate and thought let's get together and raise some money for the Madeleine Fund."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6679113.stm - 22 May 2007
The hunt for Madeleine McCann still attracts a lot of coverage.
Several papers report the police appeal for people who've been on holiday in the Algarve to send them their holiday snaps, just in case Maddy's pictured in any of them.
The Mirror's main headline talks of a father's pain and shows Gerry McCann visiting the yellow ribbon tributes in the Leicestershire village where he lives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6677803.stm - 22 May 2007
They want anyone who was in the Praia da Luz area in the two weeks before the four-year-old disappeared on 3 May to send their photos to a new website.
Officers will cross-reference them with a database of UK paedophiles.
Madeleine's father Gerry has returned to Portugal to rejoin his wife and children after a brief trip to the UK.
As well as meeting organisers of the campaign to find her, it is believed his visit was also intended to enable the family to stay in Portugal for the foreseeable future.
Jim Gamble, of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, said: "No matter how small or insignificant the information may seem to you, it could be the missing part of the jigsaw, so let us decide if it is important.
"We are looking for anyone who was at the Ocean Club Resort or surrounding area in the two weeks leading up to Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May, who have photographs that might help our work."
Detective Chief Superintendent Anne Harrison, of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), said it was possible Madeleine was still being hidden in Praia da Luz.
A number of UK law enforcement agencies are helping the Portuguese authorities, including Leicestershire Constabulary, the Association of Chief Police Officers, CEOP and the NPIA.
Chief inspector Olegario Sousa said the clue was "being verified" and that the Moroccan authorities had been contacted.
Portuguese people have also been asked to pray for Madeleine on Tuesday night in a nationwide e-mail from Carmelite nuns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6681023.stm - 22 May 2007
Gerry McCann said he and wife Kate would play a key part in trying to find her, including travelling around Europe to raise recognition of her plight.
Mr McCann said that since Madeleine may no longer be in Portugal the search for her would extend "far and wide".
Some of the money collected by the fund will be used to appoint a campaign manager. Hiring private investigators was not on the agenda at the moment, said Mr McCann.
Mr McCann said: "It was extremely difficult to leave here without Kate and when I went to Rothley I knew we should have been coming home as a family of five, there's no doubt about that."
Standing by his side, Mrs McCann said: "It was quite moving for me to see Gerry in Rothley again. It has just emphasised to us how much support we have got there and everywhere really, and that really helps."
On Wednesday, the couple, who say they have drawn strength and support from their faith, plan to visit the Roman Catholic shrine in Fatima, in central Portugal, to pray for Madeleine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6682939.stm -23 May 2007
he plot was due to revolve around Kara Tointon's character Dawn Swann, who is currently pregnant in the programme.
"It was felt any storyline that included child abduction would be inappropriate and could cause distress to our viewers," a spokeswoman said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6682669.stm - 23 May 2007
Gerry and Kate McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, who say their Catholic faith has kept them strong, spent time at the Marian shrine of Fatima.
Meanwhile, police in Portimao, in the Algarve, have re-interviewed a female witness and plan to question a man.
It is believed the pair are Michaela Walczuch - the German girlfriend of the sole official suspect, Briton Robert Murat - and her estranged husband, Portuguese national Luis Antonio.
According to friends, she had hoped to make the four-hour trip to the shrine before Madeleine was abducted, and had been even keener to do so since.
Her religious faith is long-standing, while Mr McCann is said to have had his renewed during their ordeal.
On the weekend of Madeleine's fourth birthday earlier this month, 300,000 pilgrims flocked to Fatima, including many who carried the girl's picture and prayed for her return.
They were marking the 90th anniversary of a vision of the Virgin Mary appearing to three shepherd children - Lucia Santos, her cousin Francisco Marto and his six-year-old sister Jacinta - at the site north of Lisbon.
Mary is said to have disclosed three secrets to the children and predicted Jacinta and Francisco's deaths.
The shrine attracts millions of pilgrims every year, many of whom show their devotion by approaching it on their hands and knees.
During services in the village church in Praia da Luz, which the McCanns have been attending, churchgoers have chanted: "Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us now."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6686851.stm - 24 May 2007
They have attached "Find Madeleine" posters to their bags appealing for information. Head teacher Tony Gavin said he was proud of the pupils.
Mr Gavin said the youngsters had approached teachers with the idea.
The pupils have also asked if their school bus and the ferry they take to France can carry posters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6688037.stm - 24 May 2007
Meanwhile, Kate and Gerry McCann have released the last known photograph of Madeleine, sitting by a swimming pool.
They have also met British Ambassador to Portugal John Buck, British police and consular officials.
The photograph of Madeleine was taken by her mother at the holiday complex where she disappeared in Praia da Luz, Algarve, on 3 May.
It shows the four-year-old smiling and dangling her feet in the pool alongside her father and younger brother Sean.
Back in the UK, thousands of green and yellow wristbands symbolising Madeleine's plight have gone on sale in her home county of Leicestershire.
It had been reported that a source claimed Madeleine's parents were happy with the "overall thrust" of the police investigation, but "frustrated" that certain questions and concerns were not being addressed quickly enough.
Portuguese law means police cannot release details of an ongoing investigation, even to the family involved.
The McCanns are now said to be preparing to travel around Europe in an effort to raise the profile of her case.
Meanwhile, the Catholic bishop of the Algarve, Manuel Neto Quintas has offered to become a go-between with any kidnapper.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6691503.stm - 25 May 2007
The key was to realise that there was a channel of support, said Mr McCann.
And the charity launched an official yellow Missing People ribbon to symbolise support for all missing people.
People have been urged to wear yellow ribbons to mark their support for the McCanns since Madeleine was snatched from their holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz.
He joined Paul Tuohy, chief executive of Missing People, as he re-launched the charity.
"We are re-launching at a peculiarly ironic time - when the level of interest in missing people has perhaps never been higher, when 'missing' as a social issue is on the lips of politicians, radio and TV presenters, newspaper editors, and men, women and young people the length and breadth of the country."
Mr Tuohy also announced a direct mailing appeal for a missing child, which will be delivered to half a million homes on Friday.
It carries an appeal for a girl named Carmel Fenech who was 16 when she disappeared from Crawley, West Sussex, on May 23, 1998.
The EU Justice Commissioner marked the day with a plea not to forget the McCanns' plight.
Franco Frattini said: "The public support shown throughout Europe to the parents of Madeleine McCann has illustrated European citizens' solidarity with the families of missing children and the importance they attach to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our children."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6691711.stm - 25 May 2007
"We are aware of the situation with Madeleine McCann's family. Our thoughts are with them and we hope they have as happy an outcome as we have had."
Ch Insp Kevin Findlater, who led the investigation, said a lot of effort had been put into finding Sadie.
"We put a lot of resources in to finding Sadie - around 50 officers - but we are glad the story has a happy ending," he told the press office.
"We knocked on doors and thanks to good old fashioned policing, we found Sadie behind one of them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6693091.stm - 25 May 2007
Gerry McCann, asked this week by journalists whether the couple had met Mr Murat, declined to comment.
Mr McCann did say, however, that he hoped the media and public would not rush to judgment on anyone.
"As a family we hope that all suspects are treated as we would be - innocent until charged and convicted," he said.
Artur Rego, a local lawyer, expressed surprise that Robert Murat had been declared a suspect by police before they had sufficient evidence to arrest him.
In an interview with the BBC, he said: "I believe that if one single hair of Madeleine had been found in the house he would have been arrested by now."
Interpol is co-ordinating ongoing contacts between police in Portugal, the UK and Morocco.
This is just one of several aspects in which British police have been involved.
From the early days, two officers from Leicestershire were in Praia da Luz and Portimao, and others have since joined them.
Numbers have fluctuated but there are currently five British specialists based in Portugal, while the Portuguese have one in Leicestershire.
A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann confirmed that "at times it can be frustrating" for them, "especially when their questions take time to be answered", although he stressed that the McCanns were aware of the legal restrictions.
The same day, when the McCanns were again visited by Britain's ambassador to Portugal, John Buck, a Portuguese detective was sent in to brief them on the investigation as far as was possible, according to a police spokesman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6692161.stm -25 May 2007

Kate and Gerry McCann told the BBC "no-one will ever feel as guilty as we do" after she disappeared from their apartment as they ate dinner nearby.
The couple said it was "every parent's worst nightmare", but that thousands of other people would have done the same.
Police say they are looking for a white man aged 35 to 40 who was seen in Praia da Luz on the night Madeleine vanished.
The couple said they loved their daughter "more than anyone could imagine" and still believed the "extroverted, vivacious and lively" little girl would be found safe and well.
"If anything really bad had happened we would have found her by now," Mr McCann said.
"She might look like Kate, but in terms of personality she is more of a McCann. She is very funny and often a little ringleader in nursery and with her friends," he said.
Mr McCann said it was "no secret" that the "information void" in the first 48 hours of the investigation was the "hardest thing for Kate and I to deal with".
"It took us back to the darkest places that we didn't want to do and ultimately doesn't help you.
"The worst feeling was helplessness and being completely out of control of anything in terms of getting Madeleine back."
Mrs McCann said: "The first 48 hours were incredibly difficult and we were almost non-functioning I'd say, but after that we got strength from somewhere."
The McCanns said "communication channels" had opened since then: "Certainly at the minute we are happy about how information is conveyed to us."
The couple said criticism of their decision to leave their children in the apartment while they ate had been "hard to deal with".
"No-one will ever feel as guilty as we do over the fact that we weren't with Madeleine at the time when she was abducted," Mr McCann said.
"Whether we were in the bedroom next door we would still feel as guilty."
He said the restaurant had a direct line of sight to the apartment and was "not dissimilar to having dinner in your garden".
And he insisted their half-hourly checks on the children were just as "rigorous" as any official babysitting service.
"If you thought for a moment that someone could abduct your child of course you would never have left them, but that was the furthest thing from our mind after what up until then was an idyllic holiday."
"They'll include her if they're saying, 'Who wants a biscuit?'"
And Mr McCann said the twins helped them carry on and be positive.
"If we had discovered all three of our children had gone we would not have had the same strength, resolution and determination to find Madeleine as Sean and Amelie give us.
"Life continues, but we need to bring Madeleine back as much for them, as for Madeleine, as for us," he added.
He said the fighting fund which has raised almost £300,000 had allowed them to set up a "comprehensive legal team", but at present the family was happy to follow advice not to call in private investigators.
Mr McCann repeated the plea for anyone with information to come forward and to send any photographs of strangers in the resort to the police.
"We believe the public will hold the key. Someone knows something," Mr McCann added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6693463.stm - 25 May 2007
Police searching for Madeleine McCann have issued a description of a man seen walking close to her apartment on the night she disappeared.
The white man, said to be 35 to 40 years old, was seen at about 9.30pm on 3 May in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
He is said to be 5ft 10in, medium build with short hair, and wearing a dark jacket, beige trousers and dark shoes.
Police told a news conference the man was "carrying a child or an object that could have been taken as a child".
Ch Insp Olegario de Sousa urged the man or anyone who had seen him to come forward.
"They will be taking time to consider what the police have said before making any comment," he added.
The McCanns said criticism of them for leaving her was "hard to deal with", but insisted that thousands of other people would have done the same "in such a safe resort".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694303.stm - 26 May 2007
They were spoken by Gerry and Kate McCann in their first major interview since their daughter Madeleine went missing in the Algarve on 3 May.
The Sun believes publicity is the only weapon the McCanns have left.
The Daily Telegraph focuses on the hunt by Portuguese police. A source tells the paper the police have done a good job of liaising with the parents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694275.stm - 26 May 2007

Portuguese police went public with the appeal after pressure from the McCann family to move the investigation on.
BBC correspondent Steve Kingstone in the Algarve said it was the first time the police had given a detailed description of a man they wanted to question.
But it is not known how long detectives had known this information or whether they believed the man abducted Madeleine on 3 May, he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6686567.stm - 26 May 2007
"The guilt will never leave us" is the headline in the Daily Record, The Scotsman, the Scottish Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror.
They report how the parents of kidnapped four-year-old Madeleine McCann told of their guilt over leaving her in their holiday flat while they went out.
The Herald says that police searching for Madeleine issued a detailed description of a possible suspect who was seen on the night she disappeared.
The Press and Journal reveals a friend of Madeleine's parents may have seen her being carried away from their holiday apartment the night she vanished.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6694999.stm - 26 May 2007
Mr Brown offered both parents Gerry and Kate "his full support" in their efforts to find the four-year-old, who vanished on the night of 3 May.
In a statement, Mr McCann said the sighting of the man was "significant".
A spokesman for the McCanns said: "I can confirm that telephone conversations have taken place between Gerry McCann and Chancellor Gordon Brown.
"During them, Mr Brown offered both Gerry and Kate his full support in their efforts to find Madeleine, although details of the conversations will remain private.
"The conversations took place against the background of the chancellor's earlier offer to help when he met and spoke to other members of the McCann family in the UK."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6695129.stm - 26 May 2007
He said the sighting of a man "with what appeared to be a child in his arms" was both "significant and relevant to Madeleine's abduction".
The man is said to be white, 5ft 7ins, medium build with short hair.
He was seen on the night Madeleine was taken from the Praia da Luz apartment in the Algarve, Portugal.
Portuguese police went public with the description of the man seen on the night after pressure from the McCann family to move the investigation on.
But the family later said that police had got a crucial fact wrong in the description of the man.
The height of the man given on the Portuguese press release was 170cm (5ft 7ins) but it mistakenly appeared as 5ft 10ins in the English version.
Spokesman for the McCanns, Clarence Mitchell, said the family were happy that a description had been released but hoped every detail "would be absolutely accurate in every respect".
In a statement made to the press, Mr McCann said he and his wife welcomed the release of the "important" information which had come following an amicable and very constructive meeting with Portuguese police.
"We feel sure that this sighting of a man with what appeared to be a child in his arms, is both significant and relevant to Madeleine's abduction," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6693961.stm - 26 May 2007
Stormont Presbyterian Church on the Upper Newtownards Road hosted the prayer service for the missing youngster.
Ministers from Knock Methodist Church, St Mark's Church of Ireland, St Colmcilles's Catholic and Stormont Presbyterian led the prayers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6695743.stm - 27 May 2007

Briton Robert Murat says the details released by detectives were too vague to rule him out of the investigation.
The man was described as white, 5ft 7ins, medium build with short hair.
Madeleine's father, Gerry, said the sighting of the man "with what appeared to be a child in his arms" was "significant" to his daughter's case.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6696497.stm - 27 May 2007
The parents of four-year-old Madeleine McCann are set to visit the Pope to discuss the plight of their daughter, who vanished 24 days ago.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is helping arrange for the McCanns' visit.
"The cardinal is conscious of the prayers of the entire Catholic community in this country for the McCann family at this distressing time.
"Having spoken to Dr Gerry McCann, the cardinal is facilitating the presence of the McCanns at an audience with the Holy Father as soon as is feasible.
"The cardinal also assured Dr McCann of his prayers for the safe release of Madeleine and for the rest of the family."
Mrs McCann told how she and her husband cannot now bear to be parted from their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie at night now and sleep with them in their bed.
Mrs McCann said: "They help us to get through this. We are a strong family and they were so close to
Madeleine, only 20 months apart."
Mrs McCann, 38, described how the couple had struggled to have children and had waited five years for a baby.
When Madeleine arrived she was "absolutely everything" to them, she said.
Describing the "terrifying" moment Madeleine had been taken, she said: "You just don't expect in a million years that this could happen."
But Mr McCann said he still "truly believed" his daughter was alive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6698215.stm - 28 May 2007
A family spokesman said they were "delighted" by the invitation.
Mr McCann said: "We have thanked everyone on several occasions but, you know, some people are just going to absolutely extraordinary lengths to help us. "We'd like to again thank the thousands, if not millions, of people who are doing little things in their own way - either making donations to the fund, distributing posters, taking posters on holiday - anything that people are doing to raise the awareness of Madeleine's disappearance.
"You know, we thank them from the bottoms of our heart and we believe this will make a difference in the search for her."
Later, the two-minute Find Madeleine appeal DVD was shown at Wembley Stadium at the Coca-Cola Championship play-off final between Derby County and West Bromwich Albion.
Advertising business workers Chris Lennox and Les Harle drove the billboard, which is 800 sq ft (75 sq m) when inflated, from Scotland to Portugal over three days.
The pair, who both have children, said the McCann's plight inspired them to act.
Mr Lennox, 35, said: "My heartstrings have been pulled on this and I want to help. I have a family with small kids and my wife has been following this from day one.
"She told me to come out here and do what I could. I am clearly here to help raise awareness."
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
McCann Mystery and Intrigue
Everyone will have heard of the McCanns by now. Most will have formed their own opinion. Many questions have arisen since 3rd May 2007, the main one being "Why did you leave your children that night?". It has been asked many times and the best that Kate and Gerry can do for an answer is rationalisation, pure and simple. We have heard the "It was like dining in the back garden" and "What we did was not irresponsible". In later posts, I will personally take you through each day since the 3 May 2007 and the effects of the media that the articles in print have on the public and the McCanns. For now, I will give you an outline of my thoughts.A basic look at newspapers after the 14 May illustrates the apparent, in fact, blindingly obvious fact that the Great British Media were extremely biased. Investigative journalism died in May 2007, along with balanced and opinion free reporting. Our opinions have been forced upon us, or at least that was the intention, from various angles. The few free thinkers were silenced at every opportunity, comments sections were shut down and discussions were ended and deleted on the discussion boards. There was nowhere to turn and people felt like we were back in Germany 70 years ago... "First they burn the books...". Luckily for the people who wanted to air an opinion that didn't meet the requirements of the 'campaign', they had the Mirror forum.
The Mirror Forum
Many people were looking for somewhere that would allow them to voice their opinion in the midst of all the secrecy and deceit. It became apparent that very few places would allow this apart from the DailyMirror. Through time it became the hub of information... where people would go to receive the information they craved. What were the Portuguese saying? What did other people think about the McCanns? Evidently many people had voiced their concern... and they were still doing so with gusto. Blogs such as Mike Hitchens and Postman Patel were being referred to over and above the national and tabloid outlets. Why? Simply because they were providing information that people were seeking. An alternative viewpoint. I personally frequent the Mirror forums and must say how I admire the determination and effort that goes into in depth research... what some journalists used to be paid to do! What I don't like however, but I accept as a part of the vehicle of free speech, is the outright insinuations and allegations of the McCanns. It doesn't make nice reading but it's the price you have to pay for being able to see things from both sides of the 'argument'.
The media
So why was the media so reluctant to provide the information it usually revels in. The dirt digging that hacks do on family, friends, acquaintances and people that saw you in the shop last week. Where are they? Where are all the offerings of defence and support? Why the wall of silence. I can analyse and give you my brief conclusion or I can answer it in a few words... "It was one of them". The journalists have no qualms about dishing out the dirt on the working class, those lower down the social spectrum.
Was it that journalists couldn't betray 'one of their own'? Had they been instructed? Was there reporting restrictions placed on our media. This leads me on to the theory... and not many people are a) going to like it and b) going to believe it. I didn't publish this for popularity or attention... it's because this is what I truly believe.
Universal McCann
Universal McCann is the worlds largest advertising agency. They provide for Coca Cola, Exxon Mobil, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Mastercard, Microsoft, SC Johnson and Sony. Their sister company is McCann Erikson. It is the sister company who are advertising the Madeleine McCann image alongside the CEOP. It informs, almost instructs in fact, to "Help find Madeleine McCann". When you click on it, this takes you to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection. When you reach CEOP, you'd be hard pushed to believe the amount of coverage one little girl has... if you ask me the amount the tyke's picture has been used and abused by multinational companies is tantamount to child abuse.
Brian Child was the CEO at McCann Erikson and is now one of the team at River Media. The same River Media that created the Madeleine appeal video. Where is all this going I hear you ask... well read on.
Who would want to impress McCann Erikson/Universal McCann? Why would so many people seemingly uninvolved suddenly want to become involved? It is unprecedented... unless their is an ulterior motive... an agenda.
Rupert Murdoch
Most of us will know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, whether we want to admit it or not. We will ask ourselves one question for now, before coming back to RM in later posts... who would he be seeking approval from and why.
I have set the scene, for now... it's a lot to take in. Next post tomorrow.....
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