The fund to help find Madeleine McCann is likely to run dry by the end of the year, her father has said.

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.

SINCE Madeleine McCann went missing from the Ocean Club resort in the Algarve village of Praia da Luz in the earliest days of May, the story has hardly left the front pages of Europe’s newspapers.

WHEN a family endures the death of a young child, the pain can be almost unimaginable. When a child disappears, with no indication of whether the youngster is dead or alive, the grief must be all but unbearable.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann showed signs of strain today as they faced a growing backlash in Portugal.

The lawyer of the only suspect for the disappearance of Madeleine McCann today criticised her parents’ “strange” behaviour in leaving her alone on the night she vanished.

Madeleine McCann's friends and family may have destroyed vital evidence in the first few hours after her abduction, according to Portuguese police.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann marked their daughter’s fourth birthday today with a simple plea: “Please keep looking, please keep praying.”