Florida Woman In Horrific Shark Attack

A 22-year-old woman has suffered a severe injury to her leg after being bitten by a shark while tubing in Florida.

Jessica Vaughn was swimming to a boating tube in Fort Lauderdale when the shark tore into her leg.

Kyle Branston, a friend who was tubing next to her, said Ms Vaughn first thought she had been cut by glass.

He said panic then spread when the group realised a shark was in the water.

"She said something bit her or cut her, and I first thought she was joking," Mr Branston said.

Ms Vaughn has had reconstructive surgery on her leg. Pic: @Ftlaudfire

"My instinct is: I'm in the water, she's bit by a shark and she's bleeding everywhere. There's nowhere for me to go, I'm next to her, I could be next."

The shark's teeth had cut deep into Ms Vaughn's leg, shredding muscle and exposing bone in a half-moon shaped wound.

Nick Russo, who was also tubing, said Ms Vaughn was also hit in the head during the attack.

Friends are asking people to donate towards surgery costs. Pictures: CBS

He said: "When the shark bit her down low, I guess the fin came up and hit her in the head."

After the attack friends pulled her on to the boat and rushed her to a nearby dock where paramedics met her and took her to hospital.

She has had to undergo constructive surgery to her shin and calf.

Her friends say she is uninsured and is unable to cover her medical bills with her job as a waitress.

They have set up a fundraising website and are appealing for donations.

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'Two Weeks' To Prepare For Cyber Attack

The National Crime Agency is warning computer users they have two weeks to protect against a "powerful computer attack".

Two pieces of malware software known as GOZeuS and CryptoLocker are at the centre of the alert.

People are being warned to make sure their security software is installed and up to date, and to run scans to check for any problems.

Important files should also be backed up, said the National Crime Agency (NCA).

"GOZeuS (also known as P2PZeuS) has been assessed as being responsible for the fraudulent transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds globally," said the NCA

"Recent intelligence has suggested that more than 15,500 computers in the UK are currently infected, with many more potentially at risk."

FBI action in the US had weakened the network of global computers, said the NCA, "meaning that action taken now to strengthen online safety can be particularly effective".

More follows...

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Boy, 6, Dies After Children Stabbed In Lift

A six-year-old boy has died and a seven-year-old girl is fighting for her life after the playmates were stabbed multiple times in a lift in Brooklyn.

Police are searching for a man in his 20s who fled the scene of the attack in Boulevard Houses, Schenck Avenue, East New York.

A police source said Prince Joshua Avitto and Mikayla Capers were in a lift in the building when the attacker, described as heavyset, pulled out a knife and stabbed the children several times in the torso.

He then ditched the weapon and fled the scene.

The boy's body was found inside the lift, while the girl managed to stumble outside and was found collapsed on the floor.

They were rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where Prince Joshua, known to family and friends as PJ, was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police are searching for the attacker who fled the scene

News outlet NBC reported that the boy's mother was heard shouting: "They done killed my baby.

"His birthday was in 16 days. Lord, they done killed my baby!"

Seven-year-old Mikayla has been transferred to New York-Presbyterian Hospital where she has undergone surgery. She remains in a critical condition.

New York Daily News quoted her mother, Sherina Capers, 21, as saying: "This don't make no sense. This is kids. You don't do this to kids."

According to Inez Rodriguez, the president the Boulevard Houses Tenant Association, the playmates were on their way to buy a snack when they were attacked.

"They were just coming outside to get some ice cream and ices," she said.

"This is the worst thing that I've ever seen in this neighbourhood."

The attack came two days after an 18-year-old girl was stabbed to death nearby.

She was stabbed 32 times in the chest while on the way to a friend's house on Friday evening.

Police have not ruled out a connection between the two attacks.

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Harris Denies 'Deliberate Lie' To Sex Trial

By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter, at Southwark Crown Court

Entertainer Rolf Harris has deliberately lied in his sex trial, jurors have been told, after new video evidence was shown to the court.

Harris, 84, said last week he had never been to Cambridge - where an alleged assault took place - until four years ago for an exhibition of his paintings.

But evidence was shown to the court which showed him being in the university city in 1978, taking part in a programme called Star Games.

The trial has heard the alleged victim was around 14 when she claimed Harris touched her bottom when he took part in an It's a Knockout style event held in Cambridge.

In the footage seen by jurors Harris was described as being the captain of the theatre team as it took part in the game show, with prosecutor Sasha Wass QC saying he "was jumping up and down like a kangaroo".

Harris arrives at Southwark Crown Court

His teammates included Dr Who star Colin Baker, actress Rula Lenska and seventies comedian Robin Askwith.

Ms Wass added the video "supported everything the witness had said... apart from the year - she got that wrong".

Ms Wass added: "You told the jury last week with such confidence that you had never been to Cambridge until four years ago. That was a deliberate lie."

Harris replied: "No, it wasn't. I didn't find out it was Cambridge until I saw the video.

"None of the performers knew they were in Cambridge."

The video began with aerial shots of Cambridge and was introduced by Michael Aspel welcoming viewers to he city.

After it was screened, Ms Wass said:"You didn't know you were in Cambridge? Michael Aspel knew."

Harris said: "We all went on a coach and were deposited on a green with changing rooms."

Ms Wass continued: "You deliberately lied to mislead the jury."

Harris said: "I'd forgotten the event."

Ms Wass said: "It was a deliberate lie."

Harris said: "No, a lapse of memory."

He again insisted that all of the women who have given evidence against him had lied.

At one point the judge rebuked Harris after he threw a question back at the prosecution, telling him: "This is not a verbal joust."

The artist's daughter Bindi Nicholls, 50, also gave evidence, telling how she was once "best friends" with the main complainant in the trial.

Mrs Nicholls told the court she had been delighted that the woman went on holiday with her and the Harris family in 1978. 

When asked by defence QC Sonia Woodley if she had ever seen her friend "looking flustered, or any change in her behaviour during the holiday," she replied she had not.

The woman has told the court she was groped by Harris as she stepped out of a shower and when he wrapped her in a towel on the beach during the trip.

Mrs Nicholls said of the alleged beach incident: "That would be weird. You put a towel around little people not a grown teenager, they would dry themselves.

"That would be strange, odd. I can't see that happening at all."

She added:"My dad doesn't like going on the beach. He hates sunbathing. He maybe goes snorkelling."

When asked about claims from the main complainant that her father had performed a sex act on her friend as she was asleep on the next bed, Mrs Nicholls said that was "laughable" and "ridiculous".

She added she had never seen her friend as the depressed and broken woman she had told the court she became after Harris allegedly assaulted her.

Mrs Nicholls said: "She always seemed very happy, jolly, alive."

Earlier Mrs Nicholls had broken down in tears as she described as "devastating" the Harris family south London to Berkshire in 1981, adding that it was like "moving to the moon".

Harris denies 12 counts of indecent assault on four women aged between seven and eight years old and 19 between 1968 and 1986.

The trial continues.

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Spain's King Juan Carlos Abdicates For His Son

Juan Carlos Held Reins During Rocky Times

Updated: 2:20pm UK, Monday 02 June 2014

Juan Carlos may have been tainted by recent scandals, but he can abdicate knowing he has led his country through some very testing times.

One of the most testing was when he helped bring an end to a failed coup that nearly sent Spain - now a member of the EU - back to being ruled by a military junta in 1981.

Soon after politicians were pictured cowering under their benches as armed guards burst into parliament, Juan Carlos appeared on television in his green military uniform ordering an end to the revolt.

He said: "I have ordered the civil authorities and the chiefs of staff to take the necessary measures to maintain constitutional order."

It's now largely forgotten in Britain how close one of Europe's most powerful countries came to reverting to military dictatorship.

Juan Carlos kept his son Felipe, then aged 13, at his side throughout the crisis.

"I wanted him to see what one has to do when one is king," he said later.

For years, the Royal family remained popular as Spain emerged from being one of the EU's poorer countries to being one of its most powerful.

After the Madrid train bombings in March 2004, Juan Carlos and his wife Queen Sofia threw protocol aside at a memorial service when they comforted the families of some of the 191 people killed.

But, with the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, things began to change. 

Juan Carlos' image was dealt a blow after he went on a luxury elephant-hunting safari in April 2012 as his subjects struggled in a recession, during which one in four people was unemployed.

Then, his family became embroiled in a corruption investigation when a judge indicted former Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin, the husband of the king's youngest daughter Cristina, who has also been accused of involvement.

He has also suffered long term health problems, undergoing surgery nine times between 2010 and 2013.

But, despite the setbacks, history may in time be kinder to him.

He is regarded as playing a determining role in Spain's modern history by stepping up as the first crowned head of state in 44 years, after the death of Franco.

He then defied the hopes of the Francoists for an extension of autocratic rule and instead oversaw the creation of a new system of parliamentary monarchy, with a new constitution that was approved by referendum in 1978.

Without his guiding hand, the country many people regard as their favourite holiday destination could have remained being run by those who followed a similar ideology to Adolf Hitler.

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PM And Putin To Meet Over Ukraine Violence

Prime Minister David Cameron will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Downing Street confirmed the plan as the Kremlin announced it will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council demanding an end to violence in the country.

The Prime Minister will sit down with Mr Putin after the two leaders attend commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy on Friday.

The talks will take place the day after Mr Cameron, US President Barack Obama and other G7 leaders meet in Brussels for a summit at which Russia's annexation of Crimea and the ongoing hostilities in the east of Ukraine will be high on the agenda.

The meeting was hastily arranged after they decided to boycott a planned summit of the G8 - which includes Russia  - that Mr Putin was due to host in Sochi this week.

It also comes amid heightened between Russia and Britain after Prince Charles reportedly compared Mr Putin to the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler over his actions in Ukraine.

The Prime Minister's official spokesman dismissed suggestions that Friday's talks with Mr Putin were an attempt to "make peace" with him.

The PM will also meet Mr Poroshenko, Ukraine's new leader

He said Mr Cameron would "restate our very clear and unchanged position on the Crimea which is we do not recognise the annexation".

Mr Cameron is also due to meet Ukraine's newly elected president Petro Poroshenko at the D-Day commemorations. Mr Poroshenko has vowed to rid eastern Ukraine of insurgents and restore calm to the region.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces killed five rebels while repelling an attack by hundreds of pro-Russian gunmen on a federal border guard camp in the east on Monday, Kiev officials said.

The border guard service said seven of its servicemen were wounded when "around 500 terrorists" attacked one of its units stationed outside the industrial city of Luhansk.

The rebels are "not only using mortar, grenade launchers and machine guns, but also firing from residential apartments and rooftops, using civilians as human shields," the border guard service said in a statement.

A spokesman for Ukraine's self-proclaimed "anti-terrorist operation" said the border guards eventually received air cover from fighter bombers that managed to destroy "two mortar crews of militants".

A pro-Russian rebel at a barricade in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine

Video footage showed a building within the camp compound on fire.

"After the aircraft returned to base, we received information that fighting around the Luhansk border unit resumed," Vladyslav Seleznyov told Kiev's ICTV television.

Ukraine's defence ministry said on Friday the seven-week eastern insurgency had claimed the lives of 49 Ukrainian servicemen and 128 civilians and separatists.

Russia has accused Ukraine of breaching the 1949 Geneva Conventions protecting civilians in wartime by killing peaceful citizens.

It piled further diplomatic pressure on Kiev by announcing it would submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on Monday demanding an immediate end to fighting and the creation of a corridor that would allow civilians to escape affected areas.

Ukraine has previously rejected the need for such an "aid corridor" for fear that Russia might want to send in troops to supervise the evacuation.

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Qatar: Fifa Investigator To Meet Organisers

Organisers of the Qatar 2022 World Cup are to meet Fifa's chief ethics investigator amid calls for the Gulf State to be stripped of the tournament if corruption allegations are proven.

US lawyer Michael Garcia's talks with officials from the Qatar bid in Oman come after the Sunday Times published fresh claims about payments being made to African federations to win support for the successful 2022 campaign.

The newspaper says it has seen millions of documents which show Qatar's victory was helped by a covert campaign by Mohamed Bin Hammam, a former Qatari vice-president of Fifa.

The claims came ahead of the findings of an inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes conducted by Mr Garcia.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter, right, with Mr Bin Hammam in 2010

He said his Fifa ethics committee was expected to complete its investigation by June 9 this year and would report on its findings six weeks later - which would be after the World Cup in Brazil.

The newspaper alleged Mr Bin Hammam used secret funds to make "dozens" of payments totalling more than $5m (£2.98m) to win support for Qatar's bid.

It was also claimed he paid $1.6m (£950,000) into bank accounts controlled by Jack Warner, the former vice-president of Fifa.

Qatar's bid committee has denied any wrongdoing and said it would "take any steps necessary" to defend the process.

Qatar and Russia's bid committees celebrate their World Cup successes

Fifa has not commented on the newspaper's allegations.

Prime Minister David Cameron says Mr Garcia's inquiry should be allowed to run its course.

"There is an inquiry under way quite rightly into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022. I think we should let (it)  take place rather than prejudge it," he said.

In a statement the Qatar 2022 bid committee insisted Mr Bin Hammam had played no role in its bid and that it was "cooperating fully with Mr Garcia's ongoing investigation".

Artist's impression of one of Qatar's proposed stadia

It said it was confident the inquiry would show it had won the World Cup fairly "because it was the best bid and because it is time for the Middle East to host its first Fifa World Cup".

Meanwhile, the Football Federation Australia (FFA) has revealed it has also been investigating claims of corruption in the Qatari bid.

FFA chief executive David Gallop told SEN radio in Melbourne the association has been "heavily involved" in interviews and the production of documents.

FA boss Greg Dyke says the bribery allegations are alarming

"We need to get more information about what's been revealed in the last 48 hours," he said.

"But don't be under any illusion that we haven't been heavily involved in all of this for some time now.

"We've been involved in interviews, production of documents and also following carefully what's been happening away from Australia - so we've got people that have been involved for some time now."

Australia was one of five countries that competed to host the 2022 World Cup along with Qatar, South Korea, the United States and Japan.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke is among those who have called for the bidding process to be rerun if the bribery claims are shown to be true.

He told Sky Sports News: "If there is a proper investigation and that investigation says that there was corruption involved, which I know the Qataris are denying, then obviously there will have to be a revote."

He added that "a lot of people" have wondered why Qatar was awarded the tournament, given concerns about the heat in the country, its lack of football tradition and the decision to build eight new stadia in the country.

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Pamela Anderson Stars In New Morrissey Film

Pamela Anderson is the unlikely star of a promotional video for Morrissey's new album.

The ex-Smiths frontman appears alongside the former Baywatch actress in the one minute-long film which was shot on the roof of the Capital Tower in Los Angeles.

The pair, who are both ardent animal rights campaigners, are shown taking in the view over Hollywood at sunset.

Morrissey's new film is one of a series in which he has recited the lyrics to tracks from his forthcoming album, World Peace Is None Of Your Business.

The video features the words to the song Earth Is The Loneliest Planet and was directed by Natalie Johns. Anderson does not speak at all in it.

The new album, due out next month, is Morrissey's first for five years. Last year he won acclaim for his memoir Autobiography.

Last month Morrissey was forced to confirm that he did not have a Twitter account after an inactive account in his name tweeted for the first time since joining in 2009.

The account attracted more than 250,000 followers after it posted: "Hello. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Planet Earth, are you there? One can only hope..."

But the singer said it was "bogus".

Earth Is The Loneliest Planet is out on June 3 with Harvest Records. The album will be released on July 14.

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School 'Failed To Protect Pupils From Extremism'

A Birmingham school facing claims of an Islamist takeover plot has been found to have failed to protect children from extremism, Sky News has learned.

An Ofsted investigation said the school - which Sky News is not naming - is inadequate.

Its management has been strongly criticised by inspectors.

The report into this specific school follows allegations of a so-called "Trojan Horse" takeover by Muslim hardliners at more than 20 schools in the Midlands city.

It said the school's "work to keep students safe is inadequate".

The report went on: "Key safeguarding procedures are not followed. Too little is done to keep students safe from the risks associated with extremist views.

"Some staff, including senior leaders, are concerned about a special perceived unfairness and lack of transparency in the recruitment process and the breadth and balance of the curriculum.

Key safeguarding measures were not followed, the report says

"Some female members of staff complained ... that at times they are spoken to in a manner which they find intimidating."

It found the school's "policies have been given scant consideration" and its "equalities policy is not fit for purpose".

Sky's Lisa Dowd said: "Other things mentioned in this report is that sex and relationship education is not adequate at the school.

"Students have a scant understanding of other religions, the focus is primarily on Islam.

"And, the school has been slow to engage in the prevent policy - a strategy funded by the Government to prevent extremism and radicalisation."

A person connected to the school told Sky News they felt it was "completely unfair" and that Ofsted had picked up on historical incidents which had already been dealt with and that the education watchdog was "going to get them by hook, or by crook".

They feared they could all be branded Islamists and hardliners and the damning report could spark an exodus of teaching staff.

They insisted standards had been raised at the school in the last few months which was not reflected in the report, which said pupils behaved well and described them as being courteous, respectful and eager to learn.

Dowd added: "Because this school has been rated inadequate it is likely to go into special measures.

"That could see the leadership of the school and the governing body being dissolved and replaced.

"And we understand that this won't be the only school that is rated inadequate when Ofsted publishes its findings into the 21 schools later on this week."

Labour MP Khalid Mahmood told Sky News: "There has been grooming, by a particular community, a school of thought within Islam, and would possibly lead to extremism ... not saying that children at school at the moment are extremist, but certainly they have been groomed in a particular way for that to be made easier at a later stage.

"That's what my concerns have been in Birmingham."

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Madeleine McCann: UK Cops Search Scrubland

Madeleine: Key Events Timeline

Updated: 10:22am UK, Monday 02 June 2014

Here is a timeline of the key events since Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

2007

:: May 3 - Kate and Gerry McCann leave their three children asleep in their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz while they dine with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant.

Jane Tanner, one of the friends eating with the McCanns, later reports seeing a man carrying a child away earlier that night.

:: May 5 - Portuguese police reveal they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal, and say they have a sketch of a suspect.

:: May 14 - Detectives take Anglo-Portuguese man Robert Murat in for questioning and make him an "arguido", or official suspect.

:: May 25 - Detectives release a description of the man reported by Jane Tanner three weeks earlier after pressure from the McCanns, their legal team and the British Government.

:: May 30 - Mr and Mrs McCann meet the Pope in Rome in the first of a series of trips around Europe and beyond to highlight the search for their daughter.

:: August 6 - A Portuguese newspaper reports that British sniffer dogs have found traces of blood on a wall in the McCanns' holiday apartment.

:: August 11 - Exactly 100 days after Madeleine disappeared, investigating officers publicly acknowledge for the first time that she could be dead.

:: September 7 - During further questioning of Mr and Mrs McCann, detectives make them both "arguidos" in their daughter's disappearance.

:: September 9 - The McCanns fly back to England with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.

:: October 2 - Goncalo Amaral, the detective in charge of the inquiry, is removed from the case after criticising the British police in a Portuguese newspaper interview.

:: October 25 - The McCanns release a new artist's impression drawn by an FBI-trained expert showing the man described by Jane Tanner.

2008

:: March 19 - Mr and Mrs McCann accept £550,000 libel damages and front-page apologies from Express Newspapers over allegations they were responsible for Madeleine's death.

:: April 7 - Three Portuguese detectives, led by Paulo Rebelo, fly to Britain to re-interview the seven friends on holiday with the McCanns when Madeleine vanished.

:: July 17 - Mr Murat receives £600,000 in libel damages from four newspaper groups over "seriously defamatory" articles connecting him with the child's disappearance.

:: July 21 - The Portuguese authorities shelve their investigation and lift the "arguido" status of the McCanns and Mr Murat.

:: August 4 - Thousands of pages of evidence from the Portuguese police files in the exhaustive investigation into Madeleine's disappearance are made public.

2009

:: January 13 - Mr McCann returns to Portugal for the first time since coming back to the UK without his daughter.

:: March 24 - The McCanns launch a localised new appeal for information focused on the area in the Algarve where Madeleine disappeared.

:: April 4 - Mr McCann goes back to Portugal to help film a reconstruction of the events on the night his daughter vanished.

:: April 22 - The McCanns fly to the US to record an interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey to mark two years since Madeleine's disappearance.

:: June 14 - Dying paedophile Raymond Hewlett says he was in the Algarve when Madeleine disappeared and has an alibi - but has no plans to reveal it.

:: August 6 - Detectives say they are hunting a "Victoria Beckham lookalike" with an Australian or New Zealand accent, reportedly seen in Barcelona three days after the little girl went missing.

2010

:: Feb 18 -  Kate and Gerry McCann say they are "pleased and relieved" at a judge's decision to uphold a ban on a book by former detective Goncalo Amaral.

:: Mar 3 -  A newly-released file from Portugese police on possible sightings is called "gold dust" and could lead to a breakthrough, says a spokesman for the McCanns.

:: May 1 - Kate McCann reveals she had thoughts about being "wiped out" in a motorway crash to end the pain of losing Madeleine - but vows never to give up.

:: November 10 - Madeleine's parents launch an online petition to help force a UK and Portuguese joint review of all evidence in the case.

:: November 15 -  The McCanns sign a deal to write a book about their daughter's disappearance.

2011

:: May 13 - The Prime Minister David Cameron asks London's Metropolitan Police to help investigate the case.

:: November 23 - Kate and Gerry McCann appear at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics.

They tell how media pressure affected their family life and accuse newspaper editors of hampering the search for their missing daughter.

Kate McCann says she felt "violated" when her diary was published without her permission.

:: December 5 - Scotland Yard detectives spend time in Barcelona as part of their re-examination of the case.

2012

:: March 9 - Portuguese police in Oporto launch a review of the original investigation.

:: April 26 - Scotland Yard says Madeleine McCann may still be alive and release an artist's impression of what she may look like as a nine-year-old.

:: July 6 - British detectives examine a claim that the little girl's body is buried near the apartment from where she vanished. It comes after a self-styled investigator sends police radar scans he claims show a burial site.

2013

:: February 11 - Gerry McCann calls for politicians to implement the conclusions of the Leveson Inquiry in full, backed by legislation.

:: February 13 - Police say the results of DNA tests on a girl in New Zealand who was mistaken for Madeleine reveal that she is not the missing British girl.

:: February 21 - Retired solicitor Tony Bennett who published claims that Madeleine McCann's parents caused her death is given a suspended jail sentence.

:: May 2 - Madeleine McCann's parents tell Sky News a police review into their daughter's disappearance is making "excellent progress" as they mark the sixth anniversary since she went missing.

:: May 17 - Scotland Yard say they have identified a number of "people of interest" they want to speak to. It believes it has found enough evidence to reopen the case but the Portuguese authorities are still resistant. 

:: June 15 - The Home Office agrees to fund a full-scale investigation by the Metropolitan Police.

:: October 13 - UK detectives reviewing the case say key details in the timeline of her disappearance have "significantly changed".

:: October 14 - A fresh appeal is launched in a bid to find a suspect detectives say is of "vital importance", with two new separate e-fits - thought to be of the same man seen on the night Madeleine went missing - released by police.

:: October 17 - Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the Scotland Yard team, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, and Mr and Mrs McCann meet officers in Lisbon to be briefed on the Portuguese case.

:: October 23 - Britain's most senior police officer Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe defends the way the Portuguese dealt with the initial investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, saying it would have been "very difficult" to immediately know if they were dealing with a serious crime.

:: October 24 - Detectives in Portugal reopen the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance after an internal review uncovers new lines of inquiry and witnesses who were never questioned during the original Portuguese investigation.

2014

:: January 3 - A family source says Kate and Gerry McCann have been denied permission to give evidence at a Portuguese libel trial over a book about the case by former local police chief Goncalo Amaral.

:: January 13 - British police investigate three burglars who were in the area when Madeleine disappeared, and whose phones were apparently "red hot" after she went missing. A letter is sent to Portuguese police asking for help to track them down.

:: January 29 - Scotland Yard officers, including the detective leading the case, fly to Portugal to meet police there and discuss the latest developments.

:: March 19 - Officers from Operation Grange launch a search for a man who sexually assaulted five British girls in the Algarve between 2004 and 2006.

:: April 23 - Detectives identify five new cases where a lone intruder abused young British girls in holiday apartments in the Algarve.

:: May 1 - Kate and Gerry McCann give an interview to Sky News where they are desperate to find out what happened to Madeleine, even if it is the "worst case scenario" as they back calls for a Child Rescue Alert service similar to the Amber Alert system in the US.

:: May 6 - Scotland Yard plans to dig for evidence in three locations in Praia da Luz are approved, with officers set to use ground penetrating radar.

:: May 8 - British Officers reportedly use a military helicopter to photograph potential excavation sites and hold a four-hour meeting with Portuguese colleagues to agree a timetable for new searches.

:: May 22 - Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley says the investigation will enter a "substantial phase of operational activity" in Portugal in the coming weeks. 

:: June 2 - Portuguese police seal off an area of scrubland to the west of Praia da Luz as they prepare to examine the potential excavation site.

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