Madeleine still making headlines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/6672013.stm Version 0 of 1. The story of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann dominates the front pages again. The Daily Mirror focuses on a possible sighting of the little girl in Marrakech, Morocco by a Norwegian tourist. The Daily Mail claims conmen are cashing in on the case by launching bogus, profit-making websites with similar names to the official one set up by relatives. And the Daily Telegraph says Portuguese police are under fire again, this time for not checking CCTV footage of traffic leaving the resort of Praia da Luz after Madeleine disappeared. Murderous militias The bloodshed in Iraq occupies several of the broadsheets. There is a special report on the sectarian violence tearing apart the southern city of Basra in the Guardian. The paper quotes a professor who says, "If the prophet Muhammad came to Basra today, he would be killed because he doesn't have a militia." Meanwhile, the Independent says pressure is growing on Gordon Brown to order a top-level inquiry into the war once he takes over as Prime Minister. 'Dreary problems' The papers also react to the BBC's decision to stop showing Neighbours after 21 years as a daytime TV fixture. The Sun says Five has made a "sensational £300m swoop" to steal the show, after earlier acquiring another Australian TV export, Home and Away. The Daily Mail reports that 13,000 fans had signed a petition to keep the show on BBC One. And without it, the Times laments, viewers will be stuck with "the clouds and dreary problems of British soaps". No fury The Sun speaks to a woman who filled her boyfriend's van with all his clothes and drove it into a harbour. "Fuming" Emma Thomason says "any woman would understand" why she snapped after her now ex-fiancé Jason refused to come home from the pub. And the Times reports on efforts to raise the tone in Liverpool's taxis ahead of the city becoming European Capital of Culture next year. It says cabbies will be offered free "crash courses" in art appreciation. |