Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are looking for a lone intruder who sexually abused five girls during break-ins at holiday homes.

Amid all the indignation — righteous or not — over Joe Brolly’s Colm Cooper and Kerry remarks, it may have been lost on many that the substantive prosecution charge was that Kerry are bottlers.

NOT SO long ago The National Trust published a list — the 50 things every child should experience before they reach 11 and three quarters.

French pair Jade Schaeffer and Sophie Giquel, Swede Louise Stahle and Australia's Joanne Mills shared the lead after the second round of the Ladies Open de Portugal on the Algarve today.