THE British Government’s “transplant tsar” insisted yesterday that organ transplants were carried out on the basis of whether they would work – after it emerged a cystic fibrosis sufferer died after receiving the lungs of a long-term smoker.

British experts cast fresh doubt today over claims relating to the forensic evidence at the heart of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

FORENSIC evidence taken by Portuguese police from scientists in Britain appears to be behind the recent dramatic twists in the Madeleine McCann investigation.

THE painstaking task of gathering vital forensic evidence from the blast sites and properties sealed off in yesterday’s raids could take at least a week.