Large quantities of hoarded material "stacked from ceiling to floor" have been found in a house blaze which is feared to have killed an elderly couple.

Madeleine McCann’s parents accept she is now probably dead, their spokesman admitted for the first time.

Kate McCann fears she is being “persecuted” by people who believe she is involved in her daughter Madeleine’s disappearance because she does not look maternal enough, her mother said today.