Ken Loach – how did you bring up your daughter?

From an Internet poster on the Three Arguidos Forum
I’m addressing this to you, Mr. Loach, or Ken, if you don’t mind for ease of typing. I have always been a fan of your films, and the way you portray the nitty gritty of working class life.
As a lass from the council estate who’s ‘done good’ [...]

Madeleine McCann left alone as ‘last minute decision’

By Nick Britten and Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 6:59PM BST 30/04/2008
The parents of Madeleine McCann have told how it was only a last-minute change of plan that led them to leave their children alone on the night their daughter disappeared.
Kate and Gerry McCann said that they had planned to take the family to The Millennium, a [...]

McCanns hit out at ghoulish Madeleine tours

By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 5:29PM BST 30/04/2008
Kate and Gerry McCann are deeply hurt by the “disgraceful” way in which tourists are making tours to visit the spot where their daughter Madeleine disappeared, a friend has said.

Locals in Praia da Luz are fed up with the grisly fascination
Scores of people favouring “ghoul [...]

Oh Lord give me strength…

An Internet Forum poster’s prayer:
“Oh Lord give me strength as I watch
Tonight’s McCann documentary.
May I not give myself over to anger,
Nor throw heavy objects at the TV set.
Neither may I scream in outrage
So as to annoy the neighbours.
In all manner of things may you give me peace,
That I may better analyse the deceptions
And the obfuscations [...]

Where were you that night, Kate? What grandmother said after she was told that Madeleine had been snatched

Last updated at 12:52pm on 30.04.08
Madeleine McCann’s grandmother yesterday criticised her daughter’s [...]

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McCanns left children in holiday flat ‘because we did not have a buggy

Kate and Gerry McCann might not have left their children behind while they went out with friends on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance if they had taken a buggy on holiday, they said today.
The couple disclosed that they almost decided against going to a tapas restaurant opposite their apartment in Praia da Luz on May [...]

‘I could shake my daughter and the Tapas 7 for leaving Madeleine alone,’ says Kate McCann’s mother

Last updated at 14:29pm on 29th April 2008
Madeleine McCann’s grandmother has attacked her own daughters’ decision to leave her three children alone in their holiday apartment on the night the three-year-old vanished.
Kate McCann’s mother, Susan Healy, admits she is totally astonished that she thought it was safe to leave Madeleine and their two other younger [...]

El Mundo Article: Lies and Plagiarism

29/04/08
In an article published last Sunday by Aníbal Malvar in El Mundo:
Malvar quotes a conversation between the inspectors João Tavares describing the virtues of “improvisation” of the “Portuguese cops” to Francisco Meireles, a conversation the journalist affirms he heard and met on the 23rd of April of 2008, ‘23 de abril de 2008. El [...]

Madeleine McCann’s grandparents ask: Why did they leave her alone?

Apr 29 2008 Paddy Shennan

In the concluding part of his series marking the first anniversary of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, chief feature writer Paddy Shennan hears how her grandmother is still struggling to come to terms with the bitterly regretted decision taken by nine people on that fateful night.
“I COULD shake all of them, every [...]