Officers photograph digging site as Madeleine McCann searches enter day three

Searches continue in Portugal as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (Yui Mok/PA)

Police have begun photographing an excavation site near the banks of a remote reservoir in Portugal as the fresh Madeleine McCann searches entered a third day.

Officers maintained their focus on an area of woodland on a peninsula at the Barragem do Arade on Thursday after a digging operation was commenced on Wednesday afternoon.