A PORTUGUESE judge has banned further sales or publications of a former policeman’s book which claimed Madeleine McCann is dead, a spokesman for the missing girl’s parents said.

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

PORTUGUESE police are set to stage a reconstruction of the events surrounding Madeleine McCann’s disappearance later this month, it emerged yesterday.

Demands for a referendum on the European Union Reform Treaty were reignited today after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown signed Britain up to the document in the Portuguese capital.

UK prime minister Gordon Brown today looked set to carry out his threatened boycott of a crucial EU-Africa summit after Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe confirmed he would be attending.

EXPLORATION company Ormonde Mining had good news for shareholders yesterday when it published results from its latest drilling programme at a gold and copper site in southern Spain. The share price added 3% on the news.

A woman accused of abandoning her baby near a Portuguese airport says she can't wait to get her child back.