THE widow and daughter of an Australian property tycoon have said that they were “perplexed” by reports linking their luxury yacht to the Madeleine McCann investigation.

Private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann were hunting a “Victoria Beckham lookalike” today, who may have information about the missing girl.

Madeleine McCann’s parents today launched a new appeal for information about their daughter focused on the area where she went missing nearly two years ago.

MOST of the Portuguese police officers who looked for Madeleine McCann after her disappearance had no formal training in missing people searches, case files revealed yesterday.

Police are examining CCTV footage of a girl seen in a Belgian bank which could be Madeleine McCann, it was reported today.

The first pictures of a couple seen by a woman who reported a potential sighting of Madeleine McCann in Holland were released today.

Portuguese detectives made Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects on the “slightest chance” they could have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report revealed today.

Kate and Gerry McCann refused to rule out taking legal action against the Portuguese authorities for wrongly making them suspects in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

British police have travelled to Portugal to meet the public prosecutor in the Madeleine McCann case as the inquiry apparently draws to a close.

People around the world will light candles for missing Madeleine McCann tomorrow as her parents mark an agonising year without her.

Portuguese detectives will today start questioning the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who were with them the night their daughter Madeleine disappeared.

Portuguese police are arriving in the UK tomorrow to sit in as the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are interviewed.

PORTUGUESE police are set to fly to Britain on April 7 as part of a last-gasp attempt to solve the Madeleine McCann mystery.

Tourists who stayed at the resort where Madeleine McCann went missing have been asked to provide DNA samples and fingerprints, it was reported last night.

The family of missing Madeleine McCann are attempting to re-focus attention on the hunt for her, with plans for an £80,000 advertising campaign.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann “are taking stock” and preparing for their legal case after a week of intense speculation about the little girl, a family spokeswoman said today.

Portuguese police expect to hand-deliver the results of their investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance to prosecutors today.

Kate and Gerry McCann were keen to portray a picture of normal family life in Portugal today despite being named as formal suspects over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.

Residents in the McCanns’ home village backed the couple today despite being formally named suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.

From the idea that a grieving parent took Madeleine to the possibility she died the night she went missing, police have ruled out nothing, write John Bingham and Sam Marsden.