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Saturday, 29 September 2007

150 Days

The McCanns are preparing for another painful milestone tomorrow, which will be the 150th day since Madeleine disappeared.

Police are desperate to break a perceived "pact of silence" between the friends, and have made a series of slurs against them and the McCanns in a bid to panic them into speaking out.

On Wednesday police sources briefed Portuguese journalists that their counterparts in Spain were investigating a "suspicious" trip to Huelva by the McCanns - a claim which was denied outright as "totally false" by Spanish authorities yesterday.

The denial adds weight to the McCanns' belief that they are victims of a smear campaign fuelled by the Portuguese police.

But the couple secured a victory yesterday when Portugal said it would push for the creation of an EU-wide alert system for missing children. (Daily Mail)