British police have returned to Portugal to help interview suspects in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, according to reports.

Detectives from Scotland Yard are understood to have arrived in Portugal to help with the excavation of a number of sites as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Kate and Gerry McCann said today they have "no doubt" that the Portuguese authorities will eventually reopen the investigation into their daughter Madeleine's disappearance.

The UK's Home Secretary Theresa May will meet with Kate and Gerry McCann to discuss how the search for their missing daughter Madeleine is progressing, the Home Office said today.

The release by Portuguese police to British newspapers of previously unseen files on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was “incomprehensible” and “upsetting”, her family said today.

Kate and Gerry McCann today criticised the “heartbreaking” failure by police to investigate new leads in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance as they called for a full case review.

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 today 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.

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

KATE and Gerry McCann’s four-year-old twins have started saying they want to find and fight the person who took their missing sister, the couple said yesterday.

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

BRITISH police were yesterday preparing to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

A convicted paedophile is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The parents of Madeleine McCann hope today will bring a significant response to the release of an image of how the little girl may look now if still alive.

MADELEINE McCANN was probably abducted after walking out of her holiday apartment in search of her parents, an expert on her disappearance said yesterday.

More than £1m (€1.23m) has been spent hunting for missing Madeleine McCann, her parents revealed today.

The secrets of Portuguese detectives’ investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance were laid bare today with the official release of thousands of pages of evidence.

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.

British police have travelled to Portugal to meet the public prosecutor in the Madeleine McCann case as the inquiry apparently draws to a close.

Madeleine McCann’s parents embarked on a series of meetings with MEPs in Strasbourg today in a renewed effort to secure backing for a Europe-wide child abduction alert system.

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

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

Kate and Gerry McCann tonight threatened to pull out of plans to return to Portugal to help police reconstruct the events around their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance amid a furious row over leaked interviews.

Portuguese detectives continue to sit in on interviews with friends of Kate and Gerry McCann, police confirmed today.

KATE MCCANN is “upset” at a decision by police to invite her and Gerry back to Portugal to take part in a reconstruction, a friend of the couple said yesterday.

PORTUGUESE detectives arrived in Britiain to sit in on interviews with the so-called Tapas Seven.

British and Portuguese police have met to discuss re-interviewing the friends who dined with Madeleine McCann's parents on the day she disappeared.

The lawyer for Robert Murat, the first suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, expects him to be cleared – but does not know when, he has said.

Only one British sex offender with links to the Algarve remains a suspect in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, a television documentary claims today.

The parents of Madeleine McCann thanked their supporters today as they prepared for “an incredibly difficult” Christmas.

A solicitor attempted to launch a private prosecution against the parents of Madeleine McCann today on grounds of alleged child neglect.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have 100 new questions to put to her parents and their circle of friends, it was reported today.

Kate and Gerry McCann were today given fresh hope that Madeleine is alive after learning of the discovery of a bag of clothes with a possible DNA link to their daughter.

THE parents of Madeleine McCann joined about 200 people at a prayer vigil on Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of the youngster’s disappearance.

The fund set up to support the search for Madeleine McCann was used by her parents to make two mortgage payments, it has emerged.

The father of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann is considering a return to work before Christmas, it was confirmed today.

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

Lawyers acting for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann travelled to Portugal last week in an effort to have their suspect status removed, it was revealed today.

KATE and Gerry McCann remain “philosophical” about the hunt for their missing daughter, despite the disappointment that a young girl spotted in Morocco was not Madeleine, relatives said last night.

Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a private security firm to investigate the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, it was reported today.

The parents of Madeleine McCann were not expecting a visit by Portuguese police today despite widespread speculation that detectives have arrived in the UK.

Efforts to clear the parents of Madeleine McCann of any suspicion were being stepped up today amid expectations of fresh police questioning.

Portuguese detectives have flown in to the UK with a list of fresh questions for the parents of Madeleine McCann, it was reported tonight.

The case against the parents of missing Madeleine McCann appeared to be weakening today after a Portuguese judge refused to order Kate McCann to return to Portugal for questioning.