Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell Speaks, Make Madeleine History And Breastfeeding
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL pages 10 and 11: “Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day. Kate tells of the special bond forged in the painful days of early childhood.”
Kate McCann is speaking with Portuguese magazine Flash!. This interview took place before Kate McCann was named as a suspect in Madeline’s disappearance. Kate says the first six months with Madeleine were “very difficult”. Madeleine had colic. “I had to carry her around permanently,” says Kate.
What does it mean, this interview that has “emerged”? That what you tell magazines can be taken out of context and used in evidence against you, or something else?
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns go straight to the top in search for powerful backers.”
Gordon Brown is being kept abreast of the investigation on Kate and Gerry McCann, possibly by reading the British press and watching the news bulletins.
(Is any MP still wearing a yellow ribbon?)
The McCanns have a new spokesman. He’s called Clarence Mitchell. He resigned as head of the Government’s Media Monitoring unit to take this new post.
Mr Mitchell once offered: “There’s a whole level of debate taking place online which simply didn’t exist before and departments feel they need to be fully engaged in that.”
Look out for Kate’s blog.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “THE TIDE TURNS.”
“McCanns WON’T be ordered back to Portugal says Judge”
“Gordon Brown briefed on the case”
“New spokesman will declare Gerry and Kate innocent today”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They have nothing whatever to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.” And as the McCann’s new spokesman he should know.
Pages 4 and 5: “RAY OF HOPE.”
Madeleine has not been found but Kate and Gerry McCann will not have to fly back to Portugal for more questioning.
On the downside sales of the “Look for Madeleine” wristband are not going well in Portugal. In “LOCALS REJECTS ‘FIND HER’ BRACELETS,” this year’s Make Poverty History band is being turned down at a car boot sales in Praia da Luz.
Says one ex-pat: “It’s as if they want to forget something so horrible happened.” Or buy something less with their money?
Says another: “We can’t understand how they can carry on jogging after losing Madeleine. Gerry went to a hairdressers a few weeks after she disappeared and continued tennis lessons. The Portuguese feel they should b hysterical.” But not the British, who understand reserve…
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE COPS SLAPPED DOWN. KATE BACKED BY JUDGE. Mum won’t be hauled back to Portugal.”
Judge Pedro Anjos Frias rejected Portuguese police calls for the McCanns to return. “He is thought to have ruled the case to flimsy to justify the move.” Or, to put it another way, he has not received sufficient evidence to be convinced of the need for a trial.
Pages 4 and 5: “COPS CASE COLLAPSING.”
And: “McCanns tell Brown: We have solid defence.” Gordon Brown’s reaction to this news is not known.
THE INDEPENDENT page 32: Thomas Sutcliffe says the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been “yoked by journalists to another kind of story – the primal faction of fairytale”. Here “the beautiful child is swallowed by something that has emerged from the dark”.
It is, is it not, every child’s worst nightmare.
Page 4: “Kate McCann ‘will not be reinterviewed in Portugal’.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE POLICE CASE FALLS APART.”
“Judge refuses to recall the McCanns”
“Impossible to detect sedatives in hair”
“But slurs against the parents continue”
Slurs?
Pages 8 and 9: “My struggles to control Madeleine – BY KATE MCCANN.”
As told to Flash! magazine. The twins arrive. “The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breastfeeding them.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE ALL SEVEN McCANN PALS IN FRAME.” The seven dwarves, to continue Mr Sutcliffe’s analogy?
“Cops set to name them as suspects.”
Pages 6 and 7: “BRIT PALS ALL SUSPECTS.”
The Tapas 9 are in the frame. This will put the lid – the tapas – on the case. Right?
“Maddie cops jet to UK as group face grilling” – Portuguese police are “planning” to come to the UK to continue the investigation. British police will conduct interviews.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 8: “McCanns to be interviewed by British police.”
Kate and Gerry are also keen to reach Gordon Brown. A source tell the paper: “The McCanns do not expect help or influence to be exerted on their behalf but want to get messages to the very top that they are innocent.”
Does Brown read the Telegraph?
THE GUARDIAN page 35: “Never mind the high street: Branson sells his Virgin Megastores.”
No mention of Madeleine McCann, granted, but this news one day after Branson pledged to help the parents clear their names looks like interesting timing?
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
430 jon indeed
and as that dog handler said last night “dogs cant lie”
and DRs do
September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
The ice Maiden
September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
433 The Ice Maiden
September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
408 ~ Blunger … you miss the point .,… the forum has not solidity… its like calling LLoyd’s of London and Insurance company…for the record it is not… it is a place where insurers do business.
And so back to anorak…. it is no more than a meeting place…
as in any forum … there will be differing views… there will be the un-informed, the ignorant, there will be the opinionated [count me in] but most of all there will be free and honest debate…. if you take scorn on those you see then do something about… but don’t sit there in your moral ivory tower believing you are too important for these ramblings…
come on in … the waters loverly…
September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
432 A
September 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
432 N????
September 18th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
427 I???
September 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
413
Well it took the Team McCann a long time to think that one up. It still doesn’t explain the sniffer dogs smelling corpse scent in the back of the car. If Murat’s car had the death scent the dogs would be given OBEs like the England cricket team and lauded to the skies as impartial witnesses to murder.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
401 Claire
“I think they’ve paid a bigger price than anyone could comprehend.”
Give up now Claire - you need a faculty called empathy for comprehension of that insight. They all stepped on empathy, grinding it into the mud, in their haste to mount their high-horse called ‘hollier-than-thou’.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
The McCanns have a new spokesman. He’s called Clarence Mitchell. He resigned as head of the Government’s Media Monitoring unit to take this new post.
Mr Mitchell once offered: “There’s a whole level of debate taking place online which simply didn’t exist before and departments feel they need to be fully engaged in that.”
Did anyone comment yet on this statement from Mitchell (an excerpt today’s Anorak’s -at-a glance)? I don’t have time to read through all the posts.
But this last sentence tells me that Big Brother is INDEED watching and reading these forums. “departments feel the need to be fully engaged in that”…as in trolling these forums? If that’s not a “heads up” alert, I don’t know what is. Anyone else agree or disagree with this assessment??
September 18th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
419 Veres
Could that be done over 3 days to make it more financially viable? (Thinking train here as only costs £20 per week for a weekly ticket to Bolton from Manchester Piccadilly!)
September 18th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
422 R????
September 18th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Insead of Hangman I’m calling it Hang McCann
September 18th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I would like to know if you would all back me and support me if one of the Magnificent 7 went missing? Or would you villify me for leaving them alone and condemn me? Would you help me set up a fund and a PR machine?
Could we have a show of hands please?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
418 H???
September 18th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
415
It’s only 20 hours a week too.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
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September 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
401. Hi Claire. True - but they don’t look like they’re paying a high price. They look like they got new careers, increased status and the buzz of instant fame.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
411 Tarnation
Trust a man to build you up just to knock you down again. I will go as low as £8.50 per hour that HAS to be my lowest £ I am afraid.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
just re-reading about the 2 life long friends of the stunning kate mccann who came out in support at the weekend. the bbc web site reports:
Linda McQueen and Nicky Gill, who have known Kate McCann since childhood, said she and her husband Gerry were “the most loving, family-oriented couple”.
but the article ends with the words….
They also praised Mr McCann’s parenting, saying he enjoyed life as a “hands-on” father
an unfortunate choice of phrase under the circumstances… oh well they say you can’t choose your relatives but you can choose your friends….. hmmmm
September 18th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
The McCann camp keeps working hard:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482490&in_page_id=1770&ito=newsnow
Revealed: The evidence ‘that will prove that Kate McCann is innocent’
New evidence will demolish the case against Kate McCann, it was claimed this afternoon.
Sources close to the family released details to explain how Madeleine’s DNA got into a car hired by her parents 25 days after their daughter went missing on 3 May.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
403 - Karen
I think Stig is related to the McCann family.