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    Allegations about Jose Mourinho's tax affairs. Apparently there's calls for an investigation into this.

    Panic in Downing Street with leaked memo's that the conservatives have said a 'hard brexit' could lose them power. Theresa May has threatened ministers with the sack if they are found to be talking to the media.

    55 Football clubs now under the spotlight for child abuse allegations.

    Three Archbishops from Syria and Iraq have been denied entry to the UK, after being persecuted in the MIddle East. They have simply been told there's 'no room at the inn'
     
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    It's like they're trying to spoil Xmas for everybody.
     
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    Scotland Yard given extra funding to probe ‘important’ new lead over theory that Madeleine McCann was kidnapped by trafficking gang
    • A new lead suggests Maddie snatched after traffickers took photos of her
    • Extra funding has been allocated to the Met to probe the latest information
    • Line of inquiry is said to be the 'last throw of the dice' in search for Maddie
    • Youngster disappeared in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old
    By Alexander Robertson For Mailonline

    PUBLISHED: 01:43 GMT, 4 December 2016 | UPDATED: 11:59 GMT, 4 December 2016



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    Scotland Yard is set to investigate an 'important' new lead in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

    Extra funding has been allocated to the Met to probe the information, which is said to strengthen the theory that the British girl was kidnapped by a trafficking gang.

    Detectives will work on the assumption that Maddie was snatched by a gang of European traffickers after taking photographs of her.

    The new development is said to be the 'last throw of the dice' into the investigation of the youngster's disappearance in Portugal in 2007, when she was three years old.

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    Scotland Yard is set to investigate an 'important' new lead in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

    The Sun on Sunday reported that the latest lead has been treated with the utmost importance, with Whitehall officials kept in the loop on its progress.

    A source told the newspaper: 'This is an important new line of inquiry which could provide an explanation on whether Madeleine was abducted and transported away.

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    'It raises hope that she could still be alive.'

    It is understood that current funding for the investigation will enable it to run until April, when it is due to reviewed again.

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    Detectives will work on the assumption that Maddie (pictured) was snatched by a gang of European traffickers after taking photographs of her

    Madeleine was three years old when she went missing from the holiday apartment at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007.

    Portuguese police, working in co-operation with Scotland Yard, reopened the investigation in 2013 amid talk of fresh leads but last year the Metropolitan Police announced it had reduced the number of officers it had working on the case from 29 to four.

    Last year, the Government also revealed that the investigation, code-named Operation Grange, had cost more than £10million.



    Forensic investigations into the disappearance were concluded in August after the final scientific tests carried out three months ago 'didn't take the police forward'.

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    Kate and Gerry McCann hold a news conference in 2012 to mark the 5th anniversary of the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine

    Met Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe announced in May that the investigation would come to an end after one last line of inquiry was looked into.



    At the time, then-Home Secretary Theresa May granted the team £95,000 to keep the investigation going.


    Detectives have explored dozens of theories since she vanished, including allegations she was kidnapped by a *****phile gang, killed during a botched burglary or snatched and sold by child traffickers.

    But despite 9,000 potential sightings all over Europe and even further afield the police are no closer to solving the mystery.



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    its cost millions so far, sorry for the girl, but its a bout time they paid themselves , not like they are short, what happened to all the public money they got
     
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    It's a ****ing disgrace, Rog.

    What about the thousands of other kids that go missing. Where's their million pound search funds?

    These ****ers should be made to pay every penny, and if they want to continue the search then go private. Why should we keep using our resources?

    They should also have social services take their remaining kids from their care.
     
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    Exposed, the foreign aid giant which conned MPs with fake glowing testimonials about overseas work to snaffle £329million of taxpayers' cash
    • Staff at Adam Smith International drafted glowing testimonials to MPs
    • Passed them off as submissions from foreign politicians and officials
    • Attempt to ensure company’s lucrative contracts worth £329m not cut
    By Ian Birrell for The Mail on Sunday

    PUBLISHED: 22:37 GMT, 3 December 2016 | UPDATED: 01:16 GMT, 4 December 2016



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    Peter Young, of Adam Smith International

    Fat cat foreign aid contractors paid millions by the taxpayer tried to deceive MPs and protect their lucrative business by faking glowing testimonials about their work overseas, it can be revealed today.

    Bosses at Adam Smith International (ASI) organised the sending of supportive statements to a powerful MPs’ committee investigating the vast profits made by so-called ‘poverty barons’ on the back of Britain’s huge foreign aid spending.

    They passed them off as independent submissions from senior foreign politicians and officials – but they were drafted by the firm’s staff.

    It was a brazen attempt to ensure the company’s 36 lucrative contracts – worth £329 million – were not cut after The Mail on Sunday’s startling exposé of Britain’s £12 billion foreign aid giveaway.

    But ASI’s astonishing scam was foiled when sharp-eyed officials at the International Development Committee (IDC) realised they were being bombarded by submissions that all had suspiciously similar praise for the firm’s work.

    These allegations are serious and concerning
    A whistleblower, horrified by the deceit, leaked incriminating emails from the firm to The Mail on Sunday that reveal the extraordinary lengths to which they went to cover their tracks.

    The messages reveal how a senior ASI director in one case warned staff writing fake statements not to pretend to be ‘illiterate farmers’ writing in ‘perfect English’.

    In another astonishing email, the same executive wrote: ‘We need to take care that an ASI employee is not identified as the creator.’

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    Seemingly fearing detection, he said ‘it will look suspicious’ if all submissions were identical.

    One foreign dignitary said he was later given a ‘letter of recommendation’ to sign. He was angry when he discovered it was to be used as part of the firm’s submission to the inquiry.

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    Evidence: Kenyan food seller Asha with then-Aid Secretary Justine Greening

    The emails also raise questions over involvement of the Department for International Development (DFID), which has come under increasing pressure over doling out massive sums abroad amid public spending cuts at home.

    The emails say the testimonies were ordered by DFID and claim officials would ‘nudge’ any aid beneficiaries reluctant to play ball.

    The damning dossier of leaked messages also reveals that:

    • One of the secret documents – marked ‘Official Sensitive’ on every page – reveals that it is ‘certain’ that some of the British taxpayers’ money sent to Somalia will be diverted to Islamic State;
    • A former DFID official who now works for Adam Smith International illegally obtained confidential Whitehall reports to help the company bid for new contracts;
    • Ministers are still handing £70 million this year in bilateral aid to India, despite this fast-growing economy having its own space programme.
    Last night ASI directors faced the prospect of being charged with contempt of Parliament.

    ‘These allegations are serious and concerning,’ said Stephen Twigg, chairman of the IDC, who said he would be recommending an investigation by his committee.

    The bizarre plot was hatched in May when Mr Twigg’s committee announced plans to extend an inquiry into DFID spending with a probe into its use of contractors.

    This followed The Mail on Sunday’s exposé of how private firms handing out British aid in the poorest parts of the planet were driving up their profits, pay and dividends.

    We revealed how a small group of favoured contractors have seen turnovers soar and margins rise off the back of Britain’s aid boom.



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    make the ****s pay every penny back, and start looking after our own first, charity begins at home,put the money saved into hospitals, education , and make religious institutions liable for tax from profits, and only allow 1 mosque per city,
     
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    make the ****s pay every penny back, and start looking after our own first, charity begins at home,put the money saved into hospitals, education , and make religious institutions liable for tax from profits, and only allow 1 mosque per city,[/QUOTE]

    I agree with every bit of that, and I think it's quite reasonable, as well.
     
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    The McCann's have friends in high places.
    Had it been some couple from a council estate it would have been called off after a couple of months.
    They've lived off the Maddie fund & lawsuits for years.
    They're **** parents, simple as that.
     
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    Council estate parents would have been in deep ****, when they got back home.

    It stinks how these bastards have managed to slip out of any punishment. Even if they had nothing to do with Maddie's disappearance (I think they know something), then they have failed that child by dining out and leaving her, and her siblings, unaccompanied. They have failed her and should be held accountable.

    I hope Maddie comes back to haunt the bastards.
     
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    I think that **** Gerry found her dead & disposed of her body.
    Maddie's blood was found in the boot of their hire car ffs!
     
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    If he's found her body, then there's been a reason to get shot of it.

    They probably upped her night time dose and over done it.
     
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    That's what was implied in a recent documentary.
     
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