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Tuesday 9 October 2007

Separating Fact And Fiction

Sky News Headline; says: 'So the McCanns are in the clear. Haven't you heard? It's true - it was on the front page of a national newspaper. It said the DNA evidence was found to be inconclusive.

What? You read something completely different? Oh yes, on the same day another newspaper splashed on how new DNA tests had proved the parents were involved.

It is another typical day in the Madeleine McCann story. Not much actually happens, but thousands of words are written by reporters, and thousands more by people on websites reacting to the latest stories.

Clarence Mitchell has a telephone that never stops ringing. He is the McCanns' official spokesman and in the course of one hour with me in a coffee shop he spent more than half of it dealing with phone calls from British, Spanish and Portuguese journalists checking out the latest rumours.