General discussion about the latest news (not search related)

[Alfie]

It was part of the story which you seemed to think the Met and PJ would be upset about.

Sorry, I'm having comprehension issues.  I don't understand what you are driving at.  My point was that the Met and the PJ would find it deeply suspicious of the McCanns to be planting false stories about their activities in the press.  What your last two posts are trying to say completely escapes me but that's no doubt because I'm not very smart.

[misty]

http://theportugalnews.com/news/uk-papers-apologise-to-robert-murat-again/40500

UK papers apologise to Robert Murat, again
IN NEWS · 15-12-2016 14:21:00 · 0 COMMENTS
British national and Algarve resident Robert Murat has received yet another public apology from the UK press following articles published back in June.

Under “Clarifications and corrections”, the Daily Mail on Monday followed the Sun’s example by issuing an apology to Mr. Murat.
The tabloid had on 19 June published an article ‘Clement Freud drank with Maddie suspect Robert Murat in Praia da Luz bar – and his local pub was dubbed the Plough and Paedo’ in which it reported claims made in “another newspaper” that Robert Murat had known Sir Clement Freud in the Portuguese town where Madeleine McCann went missing.
The above article has since been deleted from the Daily Mail official website.
The Daily Mail further admitted that “in fact, Mr Murat, who was totally cleared of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, never met or had any connection with the alleged paedophile ex-MP. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Mr Murat for any suggestion he was involved in wrongdoing.”
Contacted by The Portugal News, Mr Murat preferred not to comment on this latest development.
This follows a similar apology published on 29 October by The Sun, in which it wrote that “on 19 June we published an article on the late Clement Freud and on Madeleine McCann. The article also referred to Robert Murat who was totally cleared of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. We would like to make it clear that Mr Murat never met or had any connection with Clement Freud. It was not our intention to suggest any wrongdoing by Mr Murat. We apologise to Mr Murat.”
Back in 2008, Mr Murat received £600,000 in compensation after his lawyers brokered a settlement with several British newspapers, including The Sun and the Daily Mail.
Mr Murat said at the time “the newspapers in this case brought about the total and utter devastation of me and my family’s life and caused immense distress.
“I’m pleased they have admitted the falsity of their allegations and I can start to rebuild my life.
“I can emerge from this action vindicated with the recognition and acknowledgement that what was said against me was wholly untrue.”

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It leaves you wondering where the association story was sourced from in the first place.

[Carana]

http://theportugalnews.com/news/uk-papers-apologise-to-robert-murat-again/40500

UK papers apologise to Robert Murat, again
IN NEWS · 15-12-2016 14:21:00 · 0 COMMENTS
British national and Algarve resident Robert Murat has received yet another public apology from the UK press following articles published back in June.

Under “Clarifications and corrections”, the Daily Mail on Monday followed the Sun’s example by issuing an apology to Mr. Murat.
The tabloid had on 19 June published an article ‘Clement Freud drank with Maddie suspect Robert Murat in Praia da Luz bar – and his local pub was dubbed the Plough and Paedo’ in which it reported claims made in “another newspaper” that Robert Murat had known Sir Clement Freud in the Portuguese town where Madeleine McCann went missing.
The above article has since been deleted from the Daily Mail official website.
The Daily Mail further admitted that “in fact, Mr Murat, who was totally cleared of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, never met or had any connection with the alleged paedophile ex-MP. We are happy to make this clear and apologise to Mr Murat for any suggestion he was involved in wrongdoing.”
Contacted by The Portugal News, Mr Murat preferred not to comment on this latest development.
This follows a similar apology published on 29 October by The Sun, in which it wrote that “on 19 June we published an article on the late Clement Freud and on Madeleine McCann. The article also referred to Robert Murat who was totally cleared of any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. We would like to make it clear that Mr Murat never met or had any connection with Clement Freud. It was not our intention to suggest any wrongdoing by Mr Murat. We apologise to Mr Murat.”
Back in 2008, Mr Murat received £600,000 in compensation after his lawyers brokered a settlement with several British newspapers, including The Sun and the Daily Mail.
Mr Murat said at the time “the newspapers in this case brought about the total and utter devastation of me and my family’s life and caused immense distress.
“I’m pleased they have admitted the falsity of their allegations and I can start to rebuild my life.
“I can emerge from this action vindicated with the recognition and acknowledgement that what was said against me was wholly untrue.”

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It leaves you wondering where the association story was sourced from in the first place.

Tabloids aren't best known for fact-checking, Misty.

They probably just had a search menu for certain words (one of which being PdL) in their database and hey presto: another "article" banged out in 20 minutes.

As long as they fill the allotted space for a few quid, I don't think many of the hacks actually care.

[ShiningInLuz]

Tabloids aren't best known for fact-checking, Misty.

They probably just had a search menu for certain words (one of which being PdL) in their database and hey presto: another "article" banged out in 20 minutes.

As long as they fill the allotted space for a few quid, I don't think many of the hacks actually care.

We've actually covered this on the forum.

The start was the documentary in mid-year about Sir CF's antics.  The Sun appears to have then picked out that the McCanns ate with Sir CF in a villa in Luz after Madeleine disappeared, so there is now a Sir CF <> McCanns <>Luz<> paedo opportunity.  Antonella Lazzeri and A N Other from The Sun were despatched to Luz.  The next link is the Plough, at the centre of some paedo upset in 2005, two years before the MBM incident.  It looks like the Sun enquired there, and got info from a bar worker that both Murat and Sir CF had visited the Pig's Head.  Mr Hurst, landlord of the Pig's Head, has explained that he got sand-bagged by The Sun duo, who enquired if Sir CF had ever been in the Pig's Head (which he had on one occasion).  The Sun team then asked if he, Mr Hurst, knew Murat, and Mr Hurst said he was on nodding terms.

This got printed as Murat and Sir CF as drinking buddies, with the Plough and the Pig's Head as local paedo centres.

It's interesting that Murat got an apology, but it seems there was no correction re the Plough or the Pig's Head.

[John]

Kate McCann lays presents in Madeleine's bedroom as she faces her 10th Christmas without her daughter

• Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday in Portugal
• Her mother Kate McCann faces her 10th Christmas without her daughter
• She will lay presents in her daughter's bedroom in Rothley, Leicestershire

By Tracey Kandohla For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 21:30, 24 December 2016

Kate McCann will lay presents in her daughter Madeleine's bedroom on Christmas morning and hopes one day she will be back home to open them.   
A stocking full of gifts will be kept in Maddie's pretty pink room which has remained untouched since she vanished nearly a decade ago.
It has become a shrine to her and is full of photos, drawings, and untouched Christmas and birthday presents.
Mrs McCann's gesture comes after she told how she bitterly misses sharing Maddie's excitement during the festive season and listening to her singing carols.

The anguished mother, who faces her milestone 10th Christmas without her eldest child, said the occasion would be 'tinged with pain and longing.'  She said: 'She should be here and we should be celebrating with her.'  But ex-GP Mrs McCann and heart doctor husband Gerry, both 48, will try and make it 'as happy a family occasion as possible' for the sake of their 11-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.  Maddie's parents have never given up hope that she could still be alive. She would now be aged 13.

And to their daughter's kidnapper or their friends and family they say: 'Somebody knows. We just hope they find the courage and compassion to let us know too.' The brave couple, in a new posting on the official Find Maddie website, said they hope support from others will 'keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.' They have previously said: 'We have not lost hope that we may get to celebrate another Christmas with her. 'If anything can drive us on, that most definitely will. The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn't changed at all.' The family are expected to have a quiet family Christmas at home in Rothley, Leicestershire.

Prayers will be said for Maddie during the village church's Christmas Day service and a candle for the missing teenager burns round the clock beside the war memorial.

Scotland Yard are chasing up a final 'last throw of the dice' lead that three-year-old Maddie was snatched by child traffickers during a bungled burglary at a holiday apartment in Portugal's Praia da Luz in May 2007. Mr and Mrs McCann say in the shortest and simplest of festive postings, with no mention of the Met Police's failed hunt to find their daughter: 'This Christmas marks our tenth without Madeleine. 'There are no words really. The year ahead too is one which we never could have believed or contemplated we would have to face.'

They thank everyone 'who hasn't forgotten about Madeleine for their help and continued prayers.'  They add: 'The support we continue to have from so many people, friends and strangers, will we're sure, keep us strong and afloat during the difficult months to come.' The McCanns, in their online message decorated with Christmas trees and stars, wish their supporters 'hope, joy and peace' for the New Year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4064366/Kate-McCann-lays-presents-Madeleine-s-bedroom-faces-10th-Christmas-without-daughter.html

[Angelo222]

All these claims of 'looking for Madeleine' are so disingenuous imo.

[sadie]

All these claims of 'looking for Madeleine' are so disingenuous imo.

I dont see any claims of looking for Madeleine in that report.  Why did you say that, Angelo /

SY are doing the looking atm

[Angelo222]

I dont see any claims of looking for Madeleine in that report.  Why did you say that, Angelo /

SY are doing the looking atm

Really?  At Curtis Green in London ??

That's so helpful, thank you Sadie.

[sadie]

Really?  At Curtis Green in London ??

That's so helpful, thank you Sadie.

Yep, at SY headquarters .... and anywhere else that they pinpoint.

SY are still looking .. or were a few months ago when I contacted them.  They were only interested in locating Madeleine at that point. 

Seems they know who was responsible.

[slartibartfast]

Yep, at SY headquarters .... and anywhere else that they pinpoint.

SY are still looking .. or were a few months ago when I contacted them.  They were only interested in locating Madeleine at that point. 

Seems they know who was responsible.

Who did you talk to?

[G-Unit]

Yep, at SY headquarters .... and anywhere else that they pinpoint.

SY are still looking .. or were a few months ago when I contacted them.  They were only interested in locating Madeleine at that point. 

Seems they know who was responsible.

I expect they have stock answers for random callers.

[sadie]

I expect they have stock answers for random callers.

ORLY ?
 *&*%£

[slartibartfast]

Who did you talk to?

Bump for Sadie...

[sadie]

Who did you talk to?

I do not disclose names at SY

[slartibartfast]

I do not disclose names at SY

Secret police then?