Unprecedented publicity - an overview

The following is a list of headlines from the Daily Mail ( a few Mirror ones may have crept in but I'm keeping each paper separate - help in this will be gratefully received - it is best to click the quote button of the post headed either 'Mail, Mirror or Star and others'.
I thought it might be a useful exercise to do this.

DAILY MAIL:

16-4
Madeleine McCann missing: Kate McCann says she could forgive daughter's abductor
25-4
'I saw girl who looked like Maddie on tram in Brussels': New sighting as McCanns' detectives focus on Belgium
1-5
Madeleine McCann: Parents have not lost hope that missing daughter will be found six years after disappearance

3/5
Madeleine McCann: Picture timeline of disappearance as parents mark six years since she vanished
4/5
A tearful and emotional Gerry and Kate McCann mark the sixth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance by attending ceremony in home village

4-5
Six years on Madeleine McCann is still in our minds
5-5
Madeleine McCann parents pray for mum and dad of tragic April Jones
7-5
Kate McCann returns to Praia da Luz to 'feel closer to missing Madeleine'
8-5
Inspiring mothers who fought for missing daughters keep hope of Madeleine McCann miracle alive
8-5
Here's proof Kate McCann's right never to give up hope
9-5
Kate McCann returns to Portuguese resort on sixth anniversary of daughter Maddie's disappearance as she reveals renewed hopes of finding her

12-5
Flowers of hope for Madeleine as parents stage low-key gathering to mark missing daughter's tenth birthday

18-5
'There is a possibility she is still alive': Scotland Yard identify 20 new suspects in hunt for Madeleine McCann - but Portuguese will not re-open inquiry

19-5
Scotland Yard hunt six British cleaners driving a white van in search for missing Maddie

19-5
Did Madeleine McCann abductor stay in same resort? Investigators probe new leads amid claims couple 'soothed' crying three-year-old before she disappeared

25-5
Was Maddie snatched by the monster who killed this little lookalike? British detectives uncover dramatic new lead... so why are the Portuguese refusing to investigate

26-5
Maddie mystery of ex-soldier and his camper van: Police contacted Army for information days before confirming they had identified new 'persons of interest'

1-5
Madeleine McCann Parents have not lost hope that missing duaghter will be found

3-5
Madeleine McCann : Picture timeline of disappearance
4-5
Six years on Madeleine McCann is still in our minds
5-5
Madeleine McCann parents pray for mum and dad of tragic April Jones

7-5
Kate McCann returns to Praia da Luz to feel closer to missing Madeleine.
8-5
Inspiring mothers who fought for missing daughters keep hope of Madeleine McCann miracle alive


Madeleine McCann's parents given fresh hope after kidnapped girls found alive in Cleveland
Madeleine Mccann 08-05-2013
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from a home where they had been chained up for 10 years

Madeleine McCann disappearance: Missing girl's parents "pleased" with police review after it indentifies potential suspects
Madeleine Mccann 17-05-2013
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on May 3, 2007

Madeleine McCann may still be alive: Police identify list of new abduction suspects
Madeleine Mccann 17-05-2013
The release of three women from the House of Horror in Ohio has given police new energy in the hunt for the youngster

Kevin Halligen: Madeleine McCann parents may sue fraudster accused of £300,000 fund con
Madeleine Mccann 18-05-2013
It is understood that Kate and Gerry McCann are now considering suing Halligen for allegedly fleecing their fund

Is this where kidnapper spied on Madeleine McCann? Police narrow search to FOUR apartment blocks
Madeleine Mccann 19-05-2013
A British property owner in the resort of Praia Da Luz said the police had pinpointed “persons of interest” to the block

Madeleine McCann: Monster who killed lookalike is linked by police
Madeleine Mccann 26-05-2013
Urs Hans von Aesch shot himself dead after poisoning and ­abusing Ylenia Lenhard, who resembled Maddie.

Madeleine McCann: Witness saw 'weird' stranger lurking near apartment
Madeleine Mccann 29-05-2013
He is convinced the lurker was involved in the kidnap and spoke out after the Daily Mirror visited his home in the Algarve

(A few of the Mirror headlines got mixed up in the Mail ones as I was doing the list by hand.)


HUNT FOR NEW MADDIE FIEND
Thursday 11th April 2013 9:28pm
A BRIT has spoken of the “shocking” moment his daughter was caught up in a suspected kidnap bid that mirrored the Madeleine McCann case....

Madeleine McCann cops quiz kidnap Brit suspect
Friday 12th April 2013 12:00am
A BRITISH gardener was last night being quizzed over the alleged attempted kidnap of a three-year-old girl on holiday....

Maddie snatcher 'forgiven'
Wednesday 17th April 2013 12:00am
MADELEINE McCann’s mum has forgiven the beast who snatched her little girl during a family holiday in Portugal six years ago....

McCann fears for twins
Friday 19th April 2013 12:00am
THE mother of Madeleine McCann is terrified for her other two children after receiving sick online death threats....

McCanns finding 'new normality'
Wednesday 1st May 2013 8:48am
Madeleine McCann's parents have refused to give up hope that they might find their daughter as they prepare to mark the sixth anniversary of her disappeara...

McCanns: We still hope Maddie will be found
Thursday 2nd May 2013 7:14pm
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann insisted yesterday: “We haven’t lost hope.”...

McCanns mark sixth anniversary
Friday 3rd May 2013 4:07am
Missing Madeleine McCann's parents will mark the sixth anniversary of her disappearance with a small ceremony in their village....

MCCANNS THINKING OF APRIL
Sunday 5th May 2013 12:00am
THE parents of Madeleine McCann remembered murdered schoolgirl April Jones during a service to pray for the return of their missing daughter.

Former Madeleine McCann suspect calls for reconstruction of her disappearance
Monday 6th May 2013 5:58pm
A FORMER Madeleine McCann suspect has called for a reconstruction of her disappearance complete with everyone there at

McCanns encouraged as women foundTuesday 7th May 2013 6:23pm
The discovery of three women who went missing separately 10 years ago in the US has given the parents of Madeleine McCann renewed hope that she will be fou...

Kate McCann jets back to Portugal to mark anniversary
Tuesday 7th May 2013 8:24pm
MADELEINE McCann’s mum yesterday made an emotional return to the holiday resort where her daughter vanished. ...

[b]Madeleine McCann's parents encouraged by Ohio freeing
W[/b]ednesday 8th May 2013 8:29pm

Kate McCann and mum pray for Madeleine at Portugese church
Thursday 9th May 2013 7:07pm
KATE MCCANN prayed for her daughter at a small church close to where Madeleine was abducted....
  
Broken-hearted Kate’s presents for Maddie on tenth birthday
Sunday 12th May 2013 12:00am
KATE McCann will place birthday presents in her missing daughter’s bedroom today and hopes one day she will be back home to open them..

McCanns 'very pleased' with review
Friday 17th May 2013 3:39pm
Madeleine McCann's parents are said to be "very, very pleased" with Scotland Yard's review of their daughter's disappearance, as it emerged detectives have...

POLICE ID MADDIE SUSPECTS
Saturday 18th May 2013 12:00am
BRITISH police have identified “more than a handful” of suspects who could have snatched Madeleine McCann, Scotland Yard’s top detective revealed yesterday...


Maddie cops hunt 8 Brits
Monday 20th May 2013 12:00am
EIGHT Brits are on the police hitlist of new suspects wanted for questioning over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. ...

Maddie suspects named by police
Tuesday 28th May 2013 8:10pm
THREE paedophiles thought to have been in Portugal when Madeleine McCann vanished are on a list of suspects drawn up by British police....

Gran's new plea: I don’t want people to ever forget my Maddie
Wednesday 29th May 2013 12:00am
MADELEINE McCann’s gran last night said she wished the missing youngster’s photo was “on the front page of every single newspaper every day”....

That's it! My eyes are watering. Where are the articles on the 'Soothing couple? etc? I'm sure I'm missing as many as I've put down and remember they're going back to mid april at the most. For the Mirror I only scanned May.

Over to you add the other headlines and we'll see the whole pattern of this campaign more clearly.

Maybe the Mail needs cash?

Wow Tigger, that really is saturation level!

02 May 2013
Madeleine McCann's Parents 'Closer' To Truth Kate and Gerry McCann Kate ask the public to remain vigilant as they talk to Sky News about adapting to life without Madeleine..

17 May 2013
Madeleine McCann: New Suspects Identified and our work is happening to support the Portuguese." A spokesman for the McCann family, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry continue to be encou…

20 May 2013
Madeleine Suspects 'Not Fully Investigated' evening of May 3, 2007. It was just days before her fourth birthday. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had been enjoying a holiday meal with friends…Martin Brunt having made a personal appearance to PdL

All the McCanns 'coverage' coincided with Tia Sharp case and then April Jones case.
The McCanns could not bear to have those two little ones getting the headlines and photos.
NO other child that demands coverage is tolerated by the McCanns.

Well done Tigger.

Every article is about reinforcing how Mr&Mrs (and gran thrown in for good measure (publicity)) wont give up and want people to "remember" Maddie. At the same time they gave us a list of 'suspects' who could have got Maddie.

Not one message is for Maddie. They said she is alive and not harmed but they did not think of giving her personal message.

It's all about a continual "fund boosting campaign.

When parents of a child missing under mysterious circumstances whose case is under review, yet continue to court the media, surpassing even the royals, politicians, perverts and paedo***** in hoarding headlines then something is not right, even idiots know that. You have to wonder why they want public relation to be maintained to that extent when they could as easily use the airtime constructively to lobby for reopening of the case and get the Police (not the public) to search.

Of the four Ps (Parents, Police, Press and Public), only two entities out of those four have the lawful duty to find Madeleine, and it ain't the press or the public.

Portia wrote:Maybe the Mail needs cash?

Well, maybe the flat chest Mrs is their page 3 girl that sells papers.
Dont forget she said if she was heavy busted people would not be skeptical of her.
The mail is milking her EGO.
And, it's the Mrs who needs cash, apart from paying kevin she has to pay mortgage and do her hair.

tigger wrote:1-5
Madeleine McCann Parents have not lost hope that missing duaghter will be found
By who they didnt say. We know the dogs found her.


3-5
Madeleine McCann : Picture timeline of disappearance
4-5
Six years on Madeleine McCann is still in our minds
Sure, she is also in our minds. We want justice for her.
It ("in our mind") is such a stupid thing for the parents and gran to state the obvious.
That should be obvious one would have thought - no need for them to tell the public - so what was their objective when they state the bleeding obvious?

5-5
Madeleine McCann parents pray for mum and dad of tragic April Jones

Yeah, we heard how religious and god fearing people they were.
They even have keys to trepass Churches in private to pray ..quite why they think they need to sneak into God's House when no body is there is an enigma.

7-5
Kate McCann returns to Praia da Luz to feel closer to missing Madeleine.
Ya,,,she has Maddie's room in-situ in Rothley, and she travelled to a resort to feel close to Maddie. Pigs could fly first.

8-5
Inspiring mothers who fought for missing daughters keep hope of Madeleine McCann miracle alive


Here it says "keep hope of MM miracle alive" and not "hope of MM alive". They will need more than miracle to get back a dead person

Madeleine McCann's parents given fresh hope after kidnapped girls found alive in Cleveland
Madeleine Mccann 08-05-2013
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from a home where they had been chained up for 10 years
Can;t bear to think kept alive in that scenario.


Madeleine McCann disappearance: Missing girl's parents "pleased" with police review after it indentifies potential suspects
Madeleine Mccann 17-05-2013
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on May 3, 2007
Ya, so 'pleased' they did not ask who the handful suspects were...they made up their own list instead.


Madeleine McCann may still be alive: Police identify list of new abduction suspects
Madeleine Mccann 17-05-2013
The release of three women from the House of Horror in Ohio has given police new energy in the hunt for the youngster
More shit spewing from the Pink HQs


Kevin Halligen: Madeleine McCann parents may sue fraudster accused of £300,000 fund con
Madeleine Mccann 18-05-2013
It is understood that Kate and Gerry McCann are now considering suing Halligen for allegedly fleecing their fund
That will NEVER happen. Another one of their NATO (No Action Talk Only) craps .


Is this where kidnapper spied on Madeleine McCann? Police narrow search to FOUR apartment blocks
Madeleine Mccann 19-05-2013
A British property owner in the resort of Praia Da Luz said the police had pinpointed “persons of interest” to the block
We heard it all now...perverts were spying from four corners on the mccanns!



Madeleine McCann: Monster who killed lookalike is linked by police
Madeleine Mccann 26-05-2013
Urs Hans von Aesch shot himself dead after poisoning and ­abusing Ylenia Lenhard, who resembled Maddie.
Tze Tze Tze...pinky's naughty to come up with this one!


Madeleine McCann: Witness saw 'weird' stranger lurking near apartment
Madeleine Mccann 29-05-2013
He is convinced the lurker was involved in the kidnap and spoke out after the Daily Mirror visited his home in the Algarve
According to pink operation quarter, every one is weird or weirdo ....even we are weirdos to them ....so it says it all isnt it?. the weird stranger is probably as normal as you and I.



(A few of the Mirror headlines got mixed up in the Mail ones as I was doing the list by hand.)

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I am not surprised they complained about intrusive Press covereage ! !

Kate McCann: 'Living in limbo with this void and uncertainty is dreadful'
UK   /   Published: Wed, April 17, 2013
FEW people would have the strength. But Kate McCann has revealed that she might be able to forgive the abductor of her daughter Madeleine “whatever the circumstances” – thanks in part to her Catholic faith

Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann quiz bill soars to £4.5m
UK   /   Published: Sun, April 28, 2013
THE cost of Operation Grange, the Scotland Yard review of the Madeleine McCann mystery, has risen to ­£4.5million, the Sunday Express can reveal today.

McCanns finding 'new normality'
UK   /   Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Madeleine McCann's parents have refused to give up hope that they might find their daughter as they prepare to mark the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.

We’re close to finding truth about Madeleine, say McCanns
UK   /   Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
THE PARENTS of Madeleine McCann said yesterday they are closer than ever to finding out what happened to their missing daughter.

McCanns mark sixth anniversary
UK   /   Published: Fri, May 3, 2013
Missing Madeleine McCann's parents will mark the sixth anniversary of her disappearance with a small ceremony in their village.

McCanns light candles for April Jones at emotional service
UK   /   Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
THE parents of Madeleine McCann remembered five-year-old April Jones in an emotional service to pray for the safe return of their own missing daughter.

Madeleine world exclusive: 'Bring them all back to Portugal’
ROBERT MURAT today appeals for Scotland Yard to stage a filmed reconstruction of all the events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Police must keep up effort to solve Madeleine riddle
EXPRESS COMMENT   /   Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
SIX years have now passed since Madeleine McCann went missing during a family holiday in Portugal.

McCanns encouraged as women found
UK   /   Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
The discovery of three women who went missing separately 10 years ago in the US has given the parents of Madeleine McCann renewed hope that she will be found, they say.

McCanns tell of new hope over Madeleine after three women found alive
UK   /   Published: Wed, May 8, 2013
THE parents of Madeleine McCann told how they had been given fresh hope after the three women kidnapped in America were found alive.

Sometimes miracles do happen

COLUMNISTS   /   Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
WHEN I heard about the remarkable escape of three young women in Ohio after 10 years in captivity inside an ordinary suburban house, the first person I thought of was Kate McCann.

Ohio gives McCanns hope
UK   /   Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
KATE and Gerry McCann will mark their missing daughter Madeleine’s 10th birthday today with a small “celebration” as a relative of an Ohio kidnap survivor urged them never to give up their search for her.

McCanns 'very pleased' with review
UK   /   Published: Fri, May 17, 2013
Madeleine McCann's parents are said to be "very, very pleased" with Scotland Yard's review of their daughter's disappearance, as it emerged detectives have identified "more than a handful of people of interest" in the case.

SCOTLAND YARD have identified a new list of potential suspects in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, it was revealed yesterday.
Police confirm new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann
UK   /   Published: Fri, May 17, 2013
THE hunt for Madeleine McCann was given new hope today as Scotland Yard confirmed that a number of new suspects, who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, had been identified.

Madeleine McCann hope as Scotland Yard identify ‘handful’ of suspects
UK   /   Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
SCOTLAND YARD have identified a new list of potential suspects in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, it was revealed yesterday.

Mystery couple seen going into McCanns’ flat on night before sobbing Madeleine disappeared
UK   /   Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
SCOTLAND YARD detectives are trying to find a middle-aged couple said to have entered Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment to comfort her because she was crying, we can reveal today.

British holidaymakers can help in the hunt for Madeleine, says Kate McCann
UK   /   Published: Sun, June 2, 2013
KATE MCCANN has begged holidaymakers “Please don’t forget Madeleine” as she urges them to take posters of her missing daughter with them.
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Amanda Platel pointed out that they had a bit of a nerve(sumat like that) complaining about the press when the press have bent over backwards to help them.

I don't think the parents are quite the pulling power they once were and I think people are fed up to the back teeth with them. Why they brought out Granny last week I don't know, maybe tug at the heartstrings but I do not think it will work.

Beggars belief that they still expect the public to be donating and searching when times are hard enough looking after their own families and feeding them. Many cant afford to go out wining and dining, so why keep begging for help.

Get of their backsides and go search themselves would be my advice, maybe then some of the general public will follow suit.

News 17 May 2013
New Madeleine McCann suspects
MET’S top detective says there are 'good number' of people who should be questioned over missing girl
...may have abducted Madeleine McCann, it was sensationally revealed today. Scotland Yard’s top...

News 20 May 2013
Maddie’s kidnapper may still live here
WORRIED expats told of their fears that Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper is still living among them in Portugal ‘as one of us’
...their fears that Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper is still living among them in Portugal. As UK...

News 18 May 2013  
Brit cops list 20 Maddie suspects
MISSING Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann say they are ‘greatly encouraged’ by development in the case
...abducting missing Madeleine McCann. Scotland Yard yesterday revealed investigators drew up the...

Sky News 17 May 2013
New Maddie McCann suspects identified
POLICE have identified a number of suspects in the case of missing Madeleine McCann



News 01 May 2013  
Kate: Maddie’s room the same as when she vanished
McCANNS reveal they have not given up on finding her 6 years later but mum says she’s not ready to ‘move on’
MADELEINE McCann's parents have revealed how they haven’t changed their missing girl's bedroom...

News 15 March 2013
Maddie: Hunt for 6 Brit cleaners
EXCLUSIVE: COPS are trying to trace Brits working in Portugal when Maddie, then just three, vanished from resort in 2007
...investigating the Madeleine McCann case are trying to trace six British cleaners working in...

News 13 February 2013
Maddie lookalike is not missing girl
MEMBERS of the public had twice mistaken the youngster because of the similar defect in her right eye
...have confirmed the Madeleine McCann lookalike spotted in New Zealand is not the missing girl.


Features 25 May 2013
Please tweet today to help us find our missing kids
HEARTFELT plea from Kate McCann, mother of missing Madeleine, on International Missing Children’s Day
KATE McCANN is urging Sun readers to get involved in today’s Big Tweet – and help find missing...

Irish News 27 May 2013
Torn apart by tragedy
TEEN Amy Fitzpatrick’s disappearance in Spain in 2008 shattered her family’s dream of a new life on the Costa del Sol
...the spokesman for missing Madeleine McCann’s parents. Separately, her dad Christopher hired a...

Sky News 01 May 2013
Madeleine McCann: Fresh appeal
KATE and Gerry McCann give interview to mark six years since their daughter vanished in Portugal

News 17 May 2013
New Madeleine McCann suspects
MET’S top detective says there are 'good number' of people who should be questioned over missing girl
...may have abducted Madeleine McCann, it was sensationally revealed today. Scotland Yard’s top...

News 20 May 2013
Maddie’s kidnapper may still live here
WORRIED expats told of their fears that Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper is still living among them in Portugal ‘as one of us’
...their fears that Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper is still living among them in Portugal. As UK...

News 18 May 2013
Brit cops list 20 Maddie suspects
MISSING Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann say they are ‘greatly encouraged’ by development in the case
...abducting missing Madeleine McCann. Scotland Yard yesterday revealed investigators drew up the...

Sky News 17 May 2013
New Maddie McCann suspects identified
POLICE have identified a number of suspects in the case of missing Madeleine McCann

News 01 May 2013
Kate: Maddie’s room the same as when she vanished
McCANNS reveal they have not given up on finding her 6 years later but mum says she’s not ready to ‘move on’
MADELEINE McCann's parents have revealed how they haven’t changed their missing girl's bedroom...

News 15 March 2013
Maddie: Hunt for 6 Brit cleaners
EXCLUSIVE: COPS are trying to trace Brits working in Portugal when Maddie, then just three, vanished from resort in 2007
...investigating the Madeleine McCann case are trying to trace six British cleaners working in...

News 13 February 2013
Maddie lookalike is not missing girl
MEMBERS of the public had twice mistaken the youngster because of the similar defect in her right eye
...have confirmed the Madeleine McCann lookalike spotted in New Zealand is not the missing girl.


Note: the Sun does not give a list of consecutive dates but comes up with a random number of old and new articles. As there are some 900+ listed this post isn't the sum total of the articles published in the last six weeks. I included a few earlier ones because the cleaners and the New Zealand girl are easily forgotten - the cleaners came up in March and were regurgitated in May.

In short order we have:

Kate forgiving the abductor.
McCanns finding new normality
Kate returning to Portugal with photo opportunities for her and her mother.
Madeleine’s room the same as on 3/5/07. (although no photo has ever been shown).
McCanns (not) suing Halligen for loss of money from their Ltd. Company.

SY producing:
a handful or twenty ‘suspects’.
SY bill soars to 4.5 million
statement (allegedly) that Maddie could still be alive.

Maddie spotting:
New Zealand girl had to give DNA to prove she wasn’t Maddie despite having more than adequate evidence without that intrusion.
Sighting in Brussels
Request British holiday makers to buy posters from the Ltd. Company to ‘look for Maddie’.

Linking to:
April Jones (not Tia as far as I can see - too unsavoury?)
Three systematically abused women in Cleveland
Amy Fitzpatrick


Rehashed suspects plus one new set:
A soothing mystery couple
Six British cleaners
A monster
An ex-soldier in a camper van
Weird stranger
Eight Brits
Three paedophiles
The ‘SY twenty’
A dead Swiss paedo/murderer.
Kidnapper who may still live in the Algarve.

Sum total of information digested by British public:
For the bargain price of 4.5. million we are giving you not one, not two - but well over twenty ‘new’ suspects.
Kate has forgiven the abductor, the McCanns are attaining ‘normality’ and hoping that Maddie is in a similar situation to the Ohio/Kampush/Jaycee teenage abductees, all of whom have been systematically abused over a long period.

Excellent thread, spot on.

But one headline we did NOT see was "Maddie Mother Begs PDL Locals for Aid", when she missed the opportunity during her recent visit to go round local shops etc with faithful friend SH, to persuade people to put up the latest posters currently for sale on their website, despite misgivings about the effect on business. Of course people there are wary of any continued association of their family friendly resort with the events of May 2007, but a direct appeal from the mother of the missing child would surely have melted the hardest of hearts. Great photo op potential also and the best launch to their annual summer campaign possible, but for some strange reason absulutely, resolutely ignored when KMcC made her latest visit. The visit which was so low key, it's not clear why she went, or indeed why the Hubbards travelled thousands of miles to attend - what, and who paid for it all?
So too much trouble for KMcC to take their own posters over there, but still they expect complete strangers to pay for these and then persuade businesses in random holiday resorts to display them on their behalf. An ill thought out strategy, if any thought went into it at all.
Apologies if slightly off topic, Admin please move if required.

Do you remember this. Jumping on yet another bandwagon, but made to get down very quickly, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

McCanns slammed by father of missing Spanish girl for putting Madeleine on poster with his daughter
By LUCY BALLINGER
Last updated at 16:55 18 February 2008

Kate and Gerry McCann have been threatened with legal action by the father of missing five-year-old girl after they included her in a poster campaign appealing for information about Madeleine's disappearance.
The campaign was launched last week and thousands of A3 prints have been sent to schools, churches, restaurants and public places in Spain and Portugal in a bid to keep the disappearance of the missing children in the public eye.
The posters have a picture of Madeleine side-by-side with one of Mari Luz Cortes, a Spanish girl who went missing on January 13, 120 miles from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz - where Madeleine disappeared last May.
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Fury: Mari Luz's father, former footballer Juan Jose Cortes, is angry the McCanns put his daughter on a poster with Madeleine
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Madeleine McCann's disappearance is 'linked to a string of child abductions'
A second appeal featured four-year-old Madeleine alongside missing Spanish seven-year year old Yeremi Vargas who disappeared on Gran Canaria in March 2007.
The 17,400 posters were to be displayed today and carry the headline No Nos Olvideis - Spanish for "Don't forget us".
Portuguese police looking for Madeleine and the McCann's own private investigators Metado 3 have looked at both cases in connection with her disappearance.
But Mari Luz's father Juan Jose Cortes insists he was not asked for permission to use her picture by the McCanns and is angry his daughter has been included in the campaign.
The former footballer has consulted lawyers and says he may take legal action against the McCanns for using his daughter's picture without permission. He also plans to make a formal complaint to the British Embassy in Madrid.
Mr Cortes, now a builder, told a press conference in Spain on Sunday he does not want the cases to be linked by the posters.
"They are two totally distinct cases, with two completely different lines of investigation," said Mr Cortes, 34.
He added last night: "I can't understand why they didn't contact us. The only contact we had was right at the start when the McCann's friends in Metodo 3 passed on a message of support.
"We have never since had any further contact from them.
"I am aware that they requested Yeremi Vargas' parents's permission to use his image, why would they just presume they had our permission too, why didn't they ask us?
"The three cases are distinct, they are not connected, I don't understand why they are associating them.
"We are consulting with our lawyers about possible legal action."
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Help: Kate and Gerry McCann thought they were helping with the poster campaign
After Mari disappeared in January Kate and Gerry McCann's private detective agency, Metodo 3, visited the city on the Spanish border she disappeared from it to check whether the apparent abduction could be linked to four-year-old Madeleine's disappearance last May 3.
The little girl disappeared after walking 200 yards from her gypsy family's home to buy a bag of crisps at about 5pm.
Portuguese police also carried out searches on their side of the border.
McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "We obviously regret if there is any confusion over these posters, however we did have the permission of the family to produce them following a conversation between them and a female friend of Kate's who speaks Spanish.
"Her father also said anything that can be done should be done. "The lady who spoke to him also tried to get hold of him after that to show him the artwork on the posters but he was in Madrid campaigning for his daughter.
"These posters have been produced entirely with the aim of trying to help find Madeleine, Mari Luz and Yeremi Vargas.
"We believed we had permission and the friend who spoke to him is trying to phone him to remind him of the conversation she had with him."
Yesterday Madeleine's grandmother Susan Healey said the family's torment over her disappearance is like "being crucified day to day".
Speaking from her Liverpool home the 62-year-old, who is Kate McCann's mother, pleaded with people to stop criticising her family.
She said: "It is almost like being crucified day to day.
"Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn't have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don't deserve what has happened to them.
"If the Portuguese can't find out what happened to Madeleine we have to find out.
"There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance. We will go on fighting for justice.
"It is a ridiculous situation.
"If they think we are going to sit by and not have this stupid arguido status lifted then we will fight to lift it.
"We want Madeleine back and we want to find out what happened to her. There is nothing in place to make sure this doesn't happen again."

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Susan Healy.
"We want Madeleine back and we want to find out what happened to her. There is nothing in place to make sure this doesn't happen again."
But IT hasn't happened again, has it Mrs. Healy?
And you already KNOW what 'happened to her', she was 'abducted'.........wasn't she?
Very, very, strange isn't it that not a single child has gone 'missing' from PDL in 6 YEARS, the place that SY say is supposed to be totally inhabited by and crawling with pervs on every corner.?
"So there is 'nothing' in place to make sure THIS dosen't happen again"
What is the "THIS" you speak of, Mrs Healy?
We know R Oldfield said “Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be able to see they couldn’t have done it. And I was there and I know they didn’t do it.”

She never did explain what the 'IT' was that they, the McCanns, couldn't have done or didn't do!
BUT she KNEW they didn't DO 'IT'!

Oh, just an aside:
I SAW a little girl, about three years old, like that picture of the three year old Madeleine in the paper today and all last week, playing on the beach in Bournemouth, should i report that 'sighting' to the police?
The 'mother and father' looked about 22 yrs old, so they they must of 'abducted' the child when they were 16 years old.
I know it contradicts JT's 'sighting' of a grown man carrying Madeleine off, but still.
The McCanns have got to be encouraged by this potential new 'sighting' haven't they?

This is one of the best threads at the moment imo.

Tigger deserves a round of applause for the work she has put in. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

aquila wrote:This is one of the best threads at the moment imo.

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Indeed, well researched tigger[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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Yes, great research. Have a dancing banana as a thank you.

Tigger deserves a round of applause as she does put effort into her research which makes for good posts! When all the headlines are put together in order the spin becomes very obvious.

Yes - well done Tigger! Lots of hard work done to add to our information and knowledge.
Many thanks

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I'm blushing! Not all of us have the time and I do, so -

Thnx tigger

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Kate McCann: 'Living in limbo with this void and uncertainty is dreadful'
UK / Published: Wed, April 17, 2013
FEW people would have the strength. But Kate McCann has revealed that she might be able to forgive the abductor of her daughter Madeleine “whatever the circumstances” – thanks in part to her Catholic faith

Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann quiz bill soars to £4.5m
UK / Published: Sun, April 28, 2013
THE cost of Operation Grange, the Scotland Yard review of the Madeleine McCann mystery, has risen to ­£4.5million, the Sunday Express can reveal today.

McCanns finding 'new normality'
UK / Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Madeleine McCann's parents have refused to give up hope that they might find their daughter as they prepare to mark the sixth anniversary of her disappearance.

We’re close to finding truth about Madeleine, say McCanns
UK / Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
THE PARENTS of Madeleine McCann said yesterday they are closer than ever to finding out what happened to their missing daughter.

McCanns mark sixth anniversary
UK / Published: Fri, May 3, 2013
Missing Madeleine McCann's parents will mark the sixth anniversary of her disappearance with a small ceremony in their village.

McCanns light candles for April Jones at emotional service
UK / Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
THE parents of Madeleine McCann remembered five-year-old April Jones in an emotional service to pray for the safe return of their own missing daughter.

Madeleine world exclusive: 'Bring them all back to Portugal’
ROBERT MURAT today appeals for Scotland Yard to stage a filmed reconstruction of all the events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Police must keep up effort to solve Madeleine riddle
EXPRESS COMMENT / Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
SIX years have now passed since Madeleine McCann went missing during a family holiday in Portugal.

McCanns encouraged as women found
UK / Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
The discovery of three women who went missing separately 10 years ago in the US has given the parents of Madeleine McCann renewed hope that she will be found, they say.

McCanns tell of new hope over Madeleine after three women found alive
UK / Published: Wed, May 8, 2013
THE parents of Madeleine McCann told how they had been given fresh hope after the three women kidnapped in America were found alive.

Sometimes miracles do happen

COLUMNISTS / Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
WHEN I heard about the remarkable escape of three young women in Ohio after 10 years in captivity inside an ordinary suburban house, the first person I thought of was Kate McCann.

Ohio gives McCanns hope
UK / Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
KATE and Gerry McCann will mark their missing daughter Madeleine’s 10th birthday today with a small “celebration” as a relative of an Ohio kidnap survivor urged them never to give up their search for her.

McCanns 'very pleased' with review
UK / Published: Fri, May 17, 2013
Madeleine McCann's parents are said to be "very, very pleased" with Scotland Yard's review of their daughter's disappearance, as it emerged detectives have identified "more than a handful of people of interest" in the case.

SCOTLAND YARD have identified a new list of potential suspects in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, it was revealed yesterday.
Police confirm new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann
UK / Published: Fri, May 17, 2013
THE hunt for Madeleine McCann was given new hope today as Scotland Yard confirmed that a number of new suspects, who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, had been identified.

Madeleine McCann hope as Scotland Yard identify ‘handful’ of suspects
UK / Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
SCOTLAND YARD have identified a new list of potential suspects in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, it was revealed yesterday.

Mystery couple seen going into McCanns’ flat on night before sobbing Madeleine disappeared
UK / Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
SCOTLAND YARD detectives are trying to find a middle-aged couple said to have entered Madeleine McCann’s holiday apartment to comfort her because she was crying, we can reveal today.

British holidaymakers can help in the hunt for Madeleine, says Kate McCann
UK / Published: Sun, June 2, 2013
KATE MCCANN has begged holidaymakers “Please don’t forget Madeleine” as she urges them to take posters of her missing daughter with them.
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....all of this in six weeks.

Very well done Tigger. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

All of this spin doesn't sound like two people confident of the SY review. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]