The Scotland Yard police chief leading the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann said his team has carried out new witness interviews and was in a “unique position” in analysing information from police in Portugal and Britain, as well as seven private detective firms.

THE news from Ohio, while sending reverberations of disbelief around the world, may offer a shred of hope to one mother and father many thousands of miles away.

Kate and Gerry McCann will mark the fifth anniversary of their daughter, Madeleine’s, disappearance this week amid renewed hopes she will be found.

The News of the World’s former head of news was told to deliberately mislead the McCanns’ spokesman about the newspaper’s plans to publish Kate McCann’s diary, he said.

KATE and Gerry McCann have put back publication of their book about their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance to avoid clashing with the royal wedding.

MADELEINE McCann’s parents will lodge a complaint with Portuguese police alleging that former detective Goncalo Amaral broke his country’s strict judicial secrecy laws, the couple’s lawyer said.

KATE McCann admitted yesterday that listening to claims that she faked her daughter Madeleine’s abduction was difficult – but said nothing could be as bad as losing her child.

GERRY McCANN yesterday defended his legal action against a Portuguese detective who led the investigation into his daughter’s disappearance, saying his book had damaged the search for Madeleine.

PORTUGUESE police believed Madeleine McCann died in her family’s holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction, a court heard yesterday.

Portuguese police believed Madeleine McCann died in her family’s holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction, a court heard today.

A libel trial will start today of a former senior Portuguese detective who published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann died inside her parents’ apartment.

KATE and Gerry McCann returned to Portugal yesterday for the libel trial of the former Portuguese detective who headed the investigation into their daughter, Madeleine’s, disappearance.

The libel trial of a Portuguese policeman who published a book including claims missing Madeleine McCann was dead is set to start today.

THE decision of a Portuguese policeman to launch his second book on the day a libel trial is to start concerning his first book on Madeleine McCann was described as “regrettable” by her parents’ spokesman yesterday.

Madeleine McCann’s parents will fly to Portugal tomorrow for the start of a libel trial against former Portuguese policeman Goncalo Amaral.

Kate McCann has spoken of how she cries every day for her missing daughter Madeleine.

MADELEINE McCann’s parents were told yesterday they could receive more than £1 million (€1.1m) compensation from a former police detective who claimed she was dead.

THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann said yesterday the reappearance of child kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years after she disappeared “only makes us more determined” to find their daughter.

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

PRIVATE detectives hired by Madeleine McCann’s parents yesterday released an e-fit of a “Victoria Beckham lookalike” they believe may have information about the missing girl.

Private detectives hired by Madeleine McCann’s parents want to trace a “Victoria Beckham lookalike” with an Australian or New Zealand accent, it was reported today.

A CONVICTED British paedophile insisted yesterday he had never seen missing Madeleine McCann other than in posters and on television.

Two retired detectives searching for Madeleine McCann hope to speak to a convicted paedophile linked to the investigation within the next 24 hours “at the latest”, the McCann family spokesman said today.

British police were today hoping to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

Someone living in or around Praia da Luz – the Algarve resort where Madeleine McCann vanished – knows what happened to her, claim the private detectives employed by her parents to find the little girl.

The father of Madeleine McCann has returned to Portugal to advise private detectives filming a reconstruction of her disappearance, it was revealed today.

MADELEINE McCann’s father returned to Britain yesterday after making his first visit to Portugal in 16 months.

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.

PORTUGUESE police wanted to bug the parents of Madeleine McCann but a judge refused to give permission, police case files have revealed.

Portuguese police wanted to bug the parents of missing Madeleine McCann but a judge refused to give permission, their case files have revealed.

Files from the Portuguese police investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have helped her parents to “draw strength” because of the lack of any evidence that their daughter is dead, the family spokesman said 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 yesterday.

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 vowed to continue the search for their daughter, Madeleine, last night after the Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation into the child’s disappearance.

BRITISH forensic analysis produced contradictory results on the key question of whether Madeleine McCann’s DNA was found in her parents’ hire car, according to a leaked Portuguese prosecutors’ report.

Gerry and Kate McCann were given fresh heartbreak today as they waited to learn whether they will be cleared of involvement 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.

Gerry and Kate McCann are to ask an English High Court judge to order the release of police files on their daughter’s disappearance.

MADELEINE McCann’s parents marked their missing daughter’s fifth birthday privately at home yesterday.

Portugal’s attorney-general today appeared to pave the way for the authorities to shelve their investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

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

Private detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann are investigating the attempted abduction of a girl less than 30 miles from where Madeleine went missing, it emerged today.

Madeleine McCann’s parents are hoping some good will come from the leaking of interviews suggesting the young girl was left alone and crying the night before she disappeared, their spokesman said today.

Madeleine McCann asked her mother just hours before her disappearance: “Why didn’t you come when we were crying last night?”, it has emerged.