Maddy, the plot thickens.

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Holiday childcare impacted by Madeleine McCann disappearance

Parents are less likely to use hotel baby childcare services following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann while on holiday in Portugal last year.

A survey by family travel website takethefamily.com showed that 62% of parents were now less likely to leave their children alone in their room using baby listening or in the care of hotel or resort staff.

Takethefamily managing director Lucy Ace said: "The tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann has obviously had a dramatic effect on parents' attitudes.

"Such incidents are extremely rare but it has definitely made parents re-evaluate their holiday childcare – whether it's baby listening or even qualified babysitting."

However, a quarter of those polled said recent news stories had had no effect on their attitude.

"Holiday childcare has become increasingly sophisticated with resorts and hotels offering supervised cinema clubs and children's activities while parents have dinner," said Ace.

"Fully vetted babysitting and nanny services using local or often British-qualified staff have also proved popular in recent years but the result of this survey shows the Madeleine story has made parents think again."

A total of 425 families participated in the online poll. Of these, 265 families were 'less likely', to use in-resort baby listening/sitting services than they were a year ago, 54 families were 'more likely', and 106 families thought there was 'no change'.

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was yesterday accused of stalling the Madeleine McCann investigation.

Portuguese police said the nine-month case had reached "a stalemate" because the Home Office had failed to respond to a list of demands sent almost a month ago.

Investigators sent a formal letter of appeal to Whitehall on January 7, asking that the seven friends who dined with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night of May 3 should face fresh police interrogations.

Wanted: Portuguese police want to seize Madeleine's favourite Cuddle Cat toy

Three weeks have passed and the Home Office has yet to make any response to the letter, the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha reported.

British police cannot carry out the interviews on behalf of their Portuguese counterparts until the request has been rubber-stamped by the Home Secretary.

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And Portuguese police claim they cannot progress with their investigation until the interrogations are carried out.
A source said the latest delay had stalled the entire case, adding: "It is very strange that we have heard nothing.

Madeleine McCann has been missing since May 3
"There seems to be no sense of urgency on their part. But we cannot proceed until these interrogations have been carried out. It is a stalemate."
The police and the public prosecutor were notified three weeks ago that the letters had been delivered to the Home Office, the newspaper said.

Chief Insp Paulo Rebelo and his police team spent four months preparing the formal legal documents, which set out the requests for the so-called Tapas Seven to be re-interviewed and a list of questions for them to face.

The letter also listed a number of personal items the Portuguese police want seized from the McCanns, including Mrs McCann's diary, Mr McCann's personal laptop and possibly Madeleine's favourite Cuddle Cat toy.

Portuguese police want to be present when the Tapas Seven are questioned, and believe they have identified a series of contradictions and inconsistencies in their witness statements about the events of May 3.

They are expected to call for the McCanns to face another round of interviews after their friends have been re-interrogated.

The couple, who remain official suspects in the case, have said they are willing to be questioned again but have always insisted they were not involved in their daughter's disappearance.


British police cannot carry out interviews for Portuguese investigators until the request has been rubber-stamped by Home Secretary Jaqui Smith
A friend, who asked not to be named, said: "It's a bit rich that the Portuguese police are complaining about speed, almost nine months after Madeleine disappeared."

A Home Office spokesman refused to confirm if it had received the letters of appeal from the Portuguese police.

McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "For some months now we have actively offered to assist this process, to get it underway as soon as possible.

"Kate and Gerry's friends are keen that it should happen soon and want any bureaucracy - whether it's in Portugal or England - to be cleared quickly.

"Any inconsistencies the police believe exist in their evidence can be cleared up very quickly and then we hope Kate and Gerry's names will be cleared.

"As far as we are concerned this cannot happen soon enough."

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2008 13:54 schreef Suko het volgende:

Oh, het wachten is op het voluit gaan van de McCanns op dit bericht. Daar hebben zij dan toch maar weer voor gezorgd....

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Great OP Kahaarin!

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Min of meer een verklaring van spin-man Clarence Mitchell over de sluiting (of pogingen daartoe) van een aantal fora en blogs, sue them all!:

MCCANNS WARN OVER LIBEL ACTION

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Jammer dat het publiek de McCann-kliek niet kan aanklagen voor alle rubbish die het over zich heen krijgt... Als ze nou eens gewoon meewerken, get it over with! De telegraph meldt over die brieven/vragen: "A Home Office spokesman refused to confirm if it had received the letters of appeal from the Portuguese police. McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “For some months now we have actively offered to assist this process, to get it underway as soon as possible. “Kate and Gerry’s friends are keen that it should happen soon and want any bureaucracy - whether it’s in Portugal or England - to be cleared quickly.” Waarbij Clarrie even vergeet te melden dat de McCanns de status van formeel verdachten eerst opgeheven willen zien alvorens eventueel af te reizen naar Portugal en de Tapas 7 zie ik vooralsnog ook geen poot uitsteken om de zaak vlot te trekken.

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2008 21:00 schreef Troubles. het volgende:

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Really, the plot thickens!

En dit topic wordt dag in dag uit, al maand in maand uit, in leven gehouden door een handjevol idiote wijven die alleen maar gelijk willen zien.

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Op woensdag 30 januari 2008 20:21 schreef Suko het volgende:
@ Kahaarin, ik zat gewoon te wachten totdat jij weer een nieuw deel zou openen, and you did...very well. Gosh, 'k ga er helemaal Engels van beppen, al die artikelen....pffff.
@ Hephaistos, dat denken en dachten er meerderen, helaas gaat het mogelijk die kant echt op...
@ Jane, zo is dat! Met z'n allen opstomen naar Portugal, inclusief een batterij juristen, als men echt alle medewerking wil verlenen aan het onderzoek ivm de 'vermissing' van Madeleine.

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Zo zo, The Mirror (columniste Sue Carrol) geeft Metodo 3 een ferme kat naar aanleiding van al die mannen die creepy veel op de schets lijken: Another week, another Madeleine McCann "suspect". "Metodo 3 (which last year claimed it knew where Madeleine was and said she would be home by Christmas) has 40 investigators working on the case. It's been reported that each has a replica of Cuddle Cat, Madeleine's favourite toy, which they are encouraged to squeeze when they feel "demotivated" by the size of their task. If that doesn't work, perhaps a glance at their weekly pay cheques might help."

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Blogster Charlotte heeft een uitnodiging gekregen voor een seminar van vanavond: The McCanns and the Media: Event Invitation 30TH JAN‏. Die heeft ze afgeslagen omdat ze stelt dat de lijst sprekers voor de McCanns werken. 1. Clarence Mitchell, former BBC royal correspondent and now spokesman for the McCanns 2. Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of the Sun 3. PR guru Justine McGuiness 4. Executive Editor of the News of the World Neil Wallis 5. columnist, blogger and Professor of Journalism at City University Roy Greenslade 6. Roger Graef, executive producer of the recent Dispatches featuring the McCanns documentary maker David Mills, producer of the recent Panorama which he then disowned.

Ze heeft de (email)uitnodiging door gestuurd naar mensen die misschien wel willen gaan. We zullen ongetwijfeld morgen lezen wat de McCanns allemaal door de media is aangedaan en er een geheel verkeerd beeld van hen is weergegeven, of heeft het publiek de McCanns niet begrepen...

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Op donderdag 31 januari 2008 15:03 schreef voyeur het volgende:
@Kahaarin, bedankt voor de OP en de topic titel.

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@Troubles, je hebt kennelijk geen clue waar dit om gaat en wat onze motieven zijn en dat terwijl die al een paar keer braaf uitgelegd zijn aan van die simpele zielen die even voorbijwippen om iets denigrerends te melden. Mij boeit het niet dat er weer een moslim ergens ter wereld iets lelijks gedaan heeft, maar dat is ook een langlopende serie op Fok

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Verder is het van de gekke dat CM kan zeggen 'I have also had briefings privately from the police and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre that also gave me complete reassurance that the authorities, in this country certainly, are treating this as a case of rare stranger abduction, as they call it."

Oncontroleerbare kletskoek natuurlijk. Gaat de politie CM prive vertellen dat ze de ouders niet verdenken? Geloof er niets van. Is het van belang? Dacht het niet; volgens mij zijn ze verdachte in Portugal.

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Card from Madeleine at McCann twins party

Gerry and Kate McCann will throw a birthday party for their twins tomorrow - complete with a card from their missing four-year-old daughter, Madeleine.

They want to give Sean and Amelie, who will be three, as normal a life as possible in the face of the continuing international hunt for Madeleine, who was abducted on holiday in Portugal. Around 30 family, friends and supporters of the McCanns' campaign to find her have been invited to their home in Rothley, Leics.

advertisementClarence Mitchell, the McCanns' spokesman, said British police did not believe the couple were involved in her disappearance. He said Leicestershire Police child protection officers viewed the case as a "rare stranger abduction".

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Op donderdag 31 januari 2008 23:49 schreef voyeur het volgende:

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Een restje complot denken? Er is een dossier, de McCann's zijn officieel verdacht, de details van de zaak zijn niet bekend, maar er zijn veel aanwijzingen dat er belastend materiaal is waaronder DNA sporen en er zijn aantoonbaar grote gaten in de getuigenverklaringen.

Als dat complot denken is, dan hadden we op Fok ook alle speculaties over Holleeder moeten stoppen totdat de rechter geoordeeld had. Leg mij uit waarom dat wel mocht en dit niet (en niet zeggen dat je in de nieuwe Revu gelezen had dat .... want in de McCann zaak zijn er nog veel meer bladen die zeer belastende zaken publiceren dan wel suggereren).