The area in Praia da Luz on the Algarve was cordoned off and police officers were seen in the area with sniffer dogs.

Earlier this year British detectives said they were looking for a paedophile who sexually abused five girls during break-ins at holiday homes between 2004 and 2010.

Police say they believe the 18 incidents in the Western Algarve could be linked.

Scotland Yard says it wants to identify a man who assaulted children in the area where Madeleine McCann went missing almost seven years ago.

No arrests have been made, according to Scotland Yard.

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A lot of people who were in Praia da Luz at the time of the 3-year-old’s disappearance have been in touch with police since the re-enactment of her disappearance.

The attorney general’s office in Portugal has reopened the inquiry into the missing child after new information emerged.

Last night’s Crimewatch programme showed a re-enactment of the disappearance of the 3-year-old and established a number of significant changes to the timeline of her disappearance.

Police said the young person was aged three to four years and was possibly wearing pyjamas.

Metropolitan Police said they will release the ‘relevant material at the relevant time’.

Police hope that analysis of mobile phone data from thousands of people who were in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz when the toddler disappeared could provide a new lead.

Police are trawling through the phone records of people who were staying at the Portuguese resort at the time the little girl went missing.

The McCann family are suing a former policeman over a book he wrote about the missing person case.

The former detective published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann’s parents were involved in her disappearance from a vacation home in 2007.

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An update issued today detailed new findings and 38 people of interest.

The missing three-year-old vanished from the family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal six years ago.

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Officers from the Metropolitan Police say they are looking to have the investigation into the girl’s disappearance nearly five years ago reopened. One detective said that they were working off the possibility that Madeleine could still be alive as a new age progression photo was released today.

The Wikileaks chief has hit out at press coverage of his case, revealing that he has made official complaints on 75 occasions.

Detectives investigating McCann’s disappearance four years ago met with Spanish authorities recently following reports the child was taken to Barcelona.

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The Leveson Inquiry has been hearing evidence for a third day from people whose lives were affected by the UK press.

The Leveson inquiry today also heard evidence from a former advisor to supermodel Elle Macpherson and the parents of a boy who say he took his life after upsetting media coverage of his sister’s death.

Kate and Gerry McCann have studied photos of the child, who was accompanied by a French woman and a Belgian man.

Brendan O’Connor show spent over €5,000 more on guests than Ryan Tubridy-fronted show. Between them, they shelled out €265,318 on filling the guest seats last season.

David Cameron writes to the McCanns to pledge a fresh inquiry into missing Maddie, who would turn 8 yesterday.

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Four years on from Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, a chilling picture of police incompetence and paedophile activity in the Algarve emerges in a new book by her mother.

Kate and Gerry McCann welcome new information suggesting their missing daughter may be in the US, over three years after her disappearance.