Madeleine McCann: With Columnist Fergus Shanahan And The Maddie Squad
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE COLUMNISTS
FERGUS SHANAHAN: “SWOOP FOR MADDIE”
“I tried to imagine the misery Kate and Gerry McCann must be going through with these Maddie sightings. It’s too awful.”
See the Sun’s front-page Maddie update in which she is served an ice-cream in Brussels. Shanahan is the paper’s deputy editor. It’s too awful…
“They must cling to any hope. But some of the latest rash of ‘sightings’ are based on thin detail.”
The ice-cream was chocolate.
“Sadly, the Maddie tragedy is attracting its fair-share of attention seekers”
The Sun’s front page says the ice-cream was cold and sweet – just how Maddie likes them!
“It seems unlikely that Europe’s most instantly recognisable child would be walked through city streets by her abductors.”
More likely she’d stop and be bought an ice cream…
“But if convincing reports of sightings continue, Scotland Yard should set up a Maddie squad capable of moving instantly anywhere in Europe.”
On the Sun’s word…
Posted: 12th, August 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (348) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 12th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
hi all - good night for shooting stars tonight - take a look north east in the sky - i’ve seen about 10 in the last 15 mins
August 12th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
CCTV images of a blonde girl walking with a woman in Brussels had raised hopes of finding Maddie.
Sightings … missing
Madeleine McCann
But yesterday the girl’s dad came forward after seeing images published by The Sun.
He told Belgian cops: “That’s not Madeleine, it’s my daughter.”
Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leics, thanked The Sun for its investigation.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Dr Watson …….. I am in total agreement with this. Having spent two hours in a car when the central locking had an electrical fault.
I had to take the back seat out and snap the lock on the boot to cral out because the AA were really busy and I was too embarrassed to call the fire brigade out.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
A possible recent sighting of Madeleine McCann in Brussels has been ruled out by the Belgian authorities.
The father of a young blonde girl whose image was captured on CCTV says it was his daughter with her nanny.
This is according to a BBC report
August 12th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
coco Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
coolandcalm (hotandchoppy) says ….
agw…. thanks for the ‘release’. I don’t knowingly libel anyone. (apart from Mr C&C of course)
COOLANDCALM - You libelled me this morning!
I noticed that you didn’t even apologise for your pathetic behaviour when you and Pam the Professor Full of Piss were swapping knife stories about my be not being the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I left without saying that you both sounded like two old bags who weren’t getting enough of the old mutton dagger.
…………………………..
I left the above post on another thread to do a test - Just in case I had been banned.
Not that I should be. After all I have serious behavioural problems and have to be medicated so can’t really be held responsible for what I write.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
JJ
Apart from what I said before coco has now popped up @ 10.52.
Hi coco & probably bye
Looks like bye… normally busy now…?
August 12th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I am here! Hi!
Not here for long though coz taking dog for a shower.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
JJ
Got your email thanks. Didnt mean to sound rude earlier but i really didn’t know if it was a joke or not!
No I can’t see coco.
Was the above enough info? If not let me know?
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No its fine, agree its weird now, think we have access problems, I’ll contact Nick, thanks for your help!
August 12th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
JJ
Gailen @ 10.10
Dr Watson @ 10.19
Gailen @ 10.20
Thanks, I have emailed you too…can you see Coco?
August 12th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Gandolf Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Beaver Las Vegas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYg2Q-vDJ0&feature=related
secret Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Has nobody posted since 8.50?
I did at 9.55 can you see it? jj
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nothing in between….
anything after that? (jj)
August 12th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
JJ
If you’re not taking the p*ss & are talking of 9.55…….nowt!
No I’m not, I can see about 4 posts thats all
August 12th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
jj
No I cant..
Who/what can you see?
August 12th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
It was on Scotland Today news and there is nothing on their website yet. There are a couple of articles online from the Canaries papers but they don’t say much - here is link to one, it can be translated on Google Translate
http://www.laopinion.es/secciones/notic … ion-Yeremi
August 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Good evening!
I always thought that it is a terrible design fault when a car has all windows electreic. It is a potential death trap! At least one window must be made manual! Unfortunately, all “better” specifications of car now have those dreadful all-electric windows. The boy would have lived, had the windows at thew back been mechanic. This is the manufacturer’s blame, I think. Building a car which you can’t escape from inside in the event of an accideny/ electric failure/ parents forgetting is an unexcusable, dangerous design flaw.
And if a thief gets inside your car, you would not want him to die inside, so you find a stinking corpse in your vehicle in the morning. Better he escapes.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I can’t link to source. I can’t find anything on the internet.
M and A
Ok we’ll wait until something is.
We don’t disbelieve you,but we need a link for statements of that kind
August 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Has nobody posted since 8.50?
I did at 9.55 can you see it? jj
August 12th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Beaver Las Vegas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYg2Q-vDJ0&feature=related
August 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Hi Gandolf
You have a wonderful way with words !
August 12th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Oohh err….
August 12th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Fuk all Pralines….Klingons and Fanny merchants………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejg-22i4VYQ
August 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
When I put my age in on the site - They denied me access ?
Maria is right though - how did they squeeze another day out - when it was in open forum that it was not true ?
I bet that guy did not go in and arrest an Afghan Warlord either - All flannel - for the masses !!
x
August 12th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Duncan
Sorry, forgot that one too
As you so kindly offered me the box I didn’t like to say that I’m really only partial to the soft centred ones.
Please accept my humbliest?
Have you tried a fork to prise it out? Don’t know if sterident is strong enough.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KGG_zfpCH-4
August 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
secret
Praline? Never mind the praline!
That f*cking caramel’s stuck to the roof of me dentures !!!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Duncan
We’ll keep it our secret eh?
By the way did you see I left those rotten praline tooth breakers?
Do with them what you will please. Bet someone will find them down the side of the sofa after you next try & watch a movie!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Flash
We need to sit down and open a bottle …
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Well, if you’re buying - make mine an Auchentoshan
http://www.auchentoshan.co.uk/auth/
August 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Sun and DM have the story online but HOURS after it was reported in European press, I gather.
Similarly Sky….hours late.
Sun probably knew but wanted to get another day out of it first. Even then they reported the WHOLE story all over again after admitting a Belgian man “claimed” (!) the girl was his daughter, including the guard saying that he’d “bet everything he owned” that it was Madeleine. Good job nobody took him up on the bet…..
Almost as if the man might actually be lying…….
Unbelievable newspaper. (”Newspaper”? No…I think not.)
August 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1546846.ece
Case still on then
August 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Chocs !!!
Chocs is tame man !!! We need to sit down and open a bottle …..
With a name like Duncan - you might be a Scot ? Perhaps ? and partial to a wee dram ……
What part of Scotland DR ?
August 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
secret,
Best we don’t mention the chocs again.
Flash sounds a tad jealous?