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| Madeleine McCann: Government 'gives police £154,000' to extend search for missing toddler | Madeleine McCann: Government 'gives police £154,000' to extend search for missing toddler |
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| The Home Office has reportedly handed the Metropolitan Police £154,000 to extend the search for missing toddler Madeleine McCann. | The Home Office has reportedly handed the Metropolitan Police £154,000 to extend the search for missing toddler Madeleine McCann. |
| Scotland Yard had requested extra cash to continue its investigation into the three-year-old's disappearance in 2007. | Scotland Yard had requested extra cash to continue its investigation into the three-year-old's disappearance in 2007. |
| The force had said it was investigating "significant" leads, which Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley described as "very worthwhile". | |
| The new funds will allow the search to continue until March, Sky News reported. | |
| The Met had previously suggested it would ask for further funds to investigate one final line of enquiry in the £11m Operation Grange. | The Met had previously suggested it would ask for further funds to investigate one final line of enquiry in the £11m Operation Grange. |
| Funding had previously only been guaranteed for the investigation to last until the end of September. | |
| In August the Home Office said it would consider providing additional funding for the investigation, but at that point had not recieved a request from the Met. | |
| "The level of funding provided is a reflection of the wide-ranging and complex nature of the investigation which the police have deemed necessary to undertake," a spokesperson said. | |
| Three-year-old Madeleine vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on 3 May, 2007. | |
| Her disappearance sparked one of the most high-profile, and expensive, police investigations of recent times. | |
| Scotland Yard's investigation has been active since 2011, but the number of detectives working on the case was cut from 29 to four in 2015. |