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15 September BBC News “Push for Madeleine ad publicity”

The family of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann is to launch another advertising campaign to publicise her disappearance in May. Up to £80,000 from donations to the Madeleine Fund will be used for newspaper, television and billboard adverts, beginning in a fortnight. The girl's parents Gerry and Kate have been named as formal suspects by Portuguese police. The campaign would focus on Portugal and other European sites.

'Still missing'

Fund director John McCann, Gerry's brother, thanked people for their support. "The main objective of the Madeleine fund is to leave no stone unturned in the search for Madeleine. "To that end, I would like to announce that the fund will finance a broad range of initiatives in advertising to remind everyone that Madeleine is still missing," he said.

Previous campaigns involved an enormous billboard, leaflets and videos. The family earlier announced that donations to the fund would not be used for Mr and Mrs McCann's legal costs. Madeleine, who was three at the time she disappeared, was reported missing from the McCanns' apartment in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, on 3 May

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