A British couple on holiday in the Algarve resort where Madeleine McCann was abducted told today how frantic staff knocked on the doors of holidaymakers to get them involved in a search for the missing girl.

Phillip Carter, who is missing following a helicopter crash, is an honorary vice-president of Chelsea and was on his way back from the club's Champions League semi-final against Liverpool.

Logistics group Wincanton today said it had signed a deal with GlaxoSmithKline that will overhaul the drug company’s supply chain in the north of England.