Nostalgia for Christmas past differs between the generations but that doesn’t lessen the magic for children - no matter what era they grow up in, writes Richard Hogan

More than £11m (€12.5m) has been spent on the probe to find the missing girl, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal 2007.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have been offered fresh hope after police asked for more funds to keep the investigation alive.

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to ask for more funds to extend their search, it has been reported.

A decade after Maddie McCann disappeared, Barry Kitchener looks at how the case has descended into a feud between her parents and Portuguese police.

British detectives working on the Madeleine McCann case are still pursuing "critical" leads as the 10th anniversary of her disappearance approaches, a Scotland Yard chief has revealed.

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Frederik Tylicki remained in a stable condition in intensive care yesterday following his fall at Kempton on Monday.

The British investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance may finish in the next few months.

An appeals court in Portugal has overturned the libel conviction of a former Portuguese detective who published a book alleging the parents of Madeleine McCann were involved in their daughter's disappearance, their lawyer said.

Detectives still hope that Madeleine McCann could be found alive, despite the drastic scaling back of the police investigation into her disappearance.

Kate McCann has said she believes her daughter’s kidnapper did not take her “a million miles” from the Algarve.

Kate McCann has said she believes her daughter's kidnapper did not take her "a million miles" from the Algarve.

Met stresses ‘focused lines of investigation’ still to be pursued

Kate and Gerry McCann’s decision to close their Find Madeleine Campaign Twitter account because of online abuse has been criticised by the mother of snatched toddler Ben Needham.

The Ballynogluten 100% Gluten Free Roadshow. In association with SuperValu organised by the Coeliac Society of Ireland and held at Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. 

The remains of a child found dumped in a suitcase in the South Australian bush are highly unlikely to be those of British girl Madeline McCann, police say.

Madeleine D’Arcy’s first short story won an award. Her first collection may too says Colette Sheridan.

Social media awareness campaigns help to keep the memories of missing children alive, according to the ISPCC.

A former detective has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to Gerry and Kate McCann following a libel case in a Portuguese court.

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Magic Moment: At the launch of her debut collection of subtly-crafted short stories, Waiting for the Bullet, at Triskel Christchurch, Madeleine D’Arcy read the desperately sad Clocking Out, her story about a naive young woman, a lonely outsider, who gives birth in a field.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann were expected to begin questioning 11 people yesterday.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are expected to begin questioning 11 people today.

A teenager suffering from cancer has been named Ireland’s young carer of the year at an awards ceremony yesterday.

A British man and woman are among seven people due to be questioned over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it has been reported.

A British man and woman are among seven people due to be questioned over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it has been reported.

A "notorious" British paedophile — previously convicted for raping an eight-year-old girl in Australia — is being held in Malta, suspected of having links to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

A convicted paedophile is to be questioned by police in England investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Is social media having a worrying impact on our capacity for human empathy? asks Áilín Quinlan.

Police officers acting on behalf of a coroner will investigate the run-up to the death of Brenda Leyland — whose body was found after being accused of directing online abuse against Madeleine McCann’s parents.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have won £55,000 in libel damages from the Sunday Times over a story which suggested that they had kept evidence from authorities investigating their daughter’s disappearance.

A dossier of online abuse directed at the parents of Madeleine McCann is being examined by police.

A dossier of online abuse directed at the parents of Madeleine McCann is being examined by police.

Chances are you'll drop the ring.

The authors of a new book on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say the publication is being targeted by a sustained campaign of abuse online.

Competition between British police forces hindered the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and have had a long-term negative effect on the case, according to the author of an unpublished Home Office report.

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The McCanns fear that their daughter Madeleine’s kidnapper may "strike again" and believe he or she will have been "laughing" at claims that they hid their daughter’s body.

The McCanns told a court of their “devastation, desperation, anxiety and pain” when a former Portuguese detective accused them of faking their daughter’s abduction and hiding her body.

Kate and Gerry McCann are back in Portugal today for the latest hearing in their ongoing libel trial against a former police chief.