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3 days ago | bbc.co.uk | Daniel Sandford |Hafsa Khalil

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Portuguese authorities closed roads leading and around the search areaPortuguese and German authorities have started a new search into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal nearly two decades ago. Madeleine was three years old when she vanished from an apartment complex in the town Praia da Luz in Algarve during a family holiday on 3 May 2007.

3 days ago | flipboard.com | Daniel Sandford |Hafsa Khalil |Aleks Phillips

6 hours agoWatch: New search for Madeleine McCann gets underway in PortugalA new search has begun for Madeleine McCann, with Portuguese and German police carrying out searches in Lagos 18 years after the three-year-old went missing. Footage shows officers at Praia da Luz, the last known location of Madeleine, and also at a house near a holiday resort where the main suspect Christian Brueckner used to live.

1 week ago | bbc.com | Daniel Sandford

Giving evidence, Det Sgt Jones said they had been called to the postnatal ward of West Wales General Hospital after medical staff raised concerns about the identity of a newborn's parents. Jones said she and PC Beynon went to a separate room with the father and asked him several times for his name and date of birth. He eventually agreed to write it in her notebook and said he was called James Amer, giving his date of birth as 31 April 1987, the jury was told.

1 week ago | bbc.com | Daniel Sandford

Why police released details about Liverpool crash suspect so quicklyDaniel SandfordPA MediaMerseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims gave an update about the incident late on MondayAfter a driver ploughed into crowds during the Liverpool FC victory parade on Monday evening, Merseyside Police said they had arrested a "53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area". It was striking how quickly police shared the man's nationality and ethnicity.

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16 hours agoUK: Liverpool victory parade attack leaves dozens injuredLiverpool, United Kingdom - May 26, 2025 Footage shows the aftermath of a car attack on the Liverpool FC victory parade on Tuesday evening. The vehicle rammed through crowds of supporters who were gathered on Water Street for the football teamõs parade following their Premier League title win. Police arrested a 53-year-old man at the scene.