Those of you who prayed with or for the McCanns yesterday, thank you and God bless you.
Scotland Yard detectives are said to be planning to fly out to the Algarve
They will excavate two sites at Praia da Luz resort where McCanns stayed
Officers will dig up a third site at the beach nearby in hope for fresh clues
Dig is not believed to have been prompted by any specific new information
Source said it was part of the Met's routine review in the unsolved case
Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, will stay at home in Leicestershire
Police also want to speak to another British pedophile who was in the Algarve
British detectives are to fly to Portugal to dig up land near the holiday apartments from where Madeleine McCann went missing in May 2007.
Scotland Yard officers plan to excavate two sites near the Ocean Club apartments at Praia da Luz, and a third site on the nearby beach, it was reported today.
Madeleine's parents will not fly out for the search but her father, Gerry McCann, 45, said he and his wife, Kate, 46, were still 'hoping for a happy outcome'.
Map: British police are expected to excavate two sites near the Ocean Club and one site on the nearby beach
The decision to dig up the land in the Algarve is believed not to have come from a specific piece of new information but as part of a routine police review by British detectives into the unsolved case.
British police, who will use radar equipment to look for disturbed earth or potential evidence, are said to be hoping to find any pieces of information or clues that may have been missed by their Portugese counterparts.
A friend of the McCanns' said the police were not specifically looking for a body, but were hoping to rule possible scenarios out as well as find new information.
The source told the Mirror: 'There will be earth diggers everywhere and it will look very dramatic and it will be a heartbreaking and hugely emotional time for Madeleine's poor parents.'
'Certain areas should have been searched properly way back by the Portuguese authorities but were not.'
The latest Crimewatch television appeal for new leads on the hunt for Madeleine gave police fresh information and they are hoping that the digs might provide further clues.
Mr McCann, who on Saturday attended a prayer service in the his village of Rothley, Leicestershire, with about 100 supporters, on the seventh anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, said that the police were heading out to Portugal shortly.
He said the detectives did have new evidence, and insisted he and his wife continued to hope for the best.
The cardiologist said: 'They are chipping away and there is new evidence. We are going to continue hoping we get a happy outcome and one day we will know what's happening.'
Brian Kennedy, 75, the great-uncle of Madeleine, who would now be ten, said the family was hoping for news as not knowing what had happened to the child was so difficult.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said it was protocol not to comment on specific reports on the McCann case.
News of the digs in Portugal comes after it emerged that British police were looking to speak to a British paedophile who was arrested at a campside in the Algarve in 2010 and extradited to Australia where he was wanted for a 1998 rape of an eight-year-old.
Officers are said to believe that Roderick Robinson, 77, who jumped bail in Australia and fled to the Far East following another conviction in the UK in 2012, may have information about a child sex ring operating in the Algarve when Madeleine went missing seven years ago.
Robinson received six months in prison after accepting a plea deal for indecently assaulting the child in Australia and fled to Thailand after he was released, but Thai authorities deported him back to the UK when they found out about his past.
He settled in Brighton, East Sussex, but, despite being made to sign the Sex Offenders Register, was convicted of molesting two girls, five and seven in 2012.
He received a year-long sentence but it was suspended for two years. What? What kind of sentence is that? He's on the Sex Offender Registry, he molests two little girls, he has a history of running and he gets a suspended sentence? Well that should teach him!
He changed his name and fled to the Far East soon after. Of course he did!
An international arrest warrant is out for Robinson, who at one point settled in Brighton before changing his name and going abroad.
Scotland Yard detectives are said to be planning to fly out to the Algarve
They will excavate two sites at Praia da Luz resort where McCanns stayed
Officers will dig up a third site at the beach nearby in hope for fresh clues
Dig is not believed to have been prompted by any specific new information
Source said it was part of the Met's routine review in the unsolved case
Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, will stay at home in Leicestershire
Police also want to speak to another British pedophile who was in the Algarve
British detectives are to fly to Portugal to dig up land near the holiday apartments from where Madeleine McCann went missing in May 2007.
Madeleine's parents will not fly out for the search but her father, Gerry McCann, 45, said he and his wife, Kate, 46, were still 'hoping for a happy outcome'.
Map: British police are expected to excavate two sites near the Ocean Club and one site on the nearby beach
The decision to dig up the land in the Algarve is believed not to have come from a specific piece of new information but as part of a routine police review by British detectives into the unsolved case.
British police, who will use radar equipment to look for disturbed earth or potential evidence, are said to be hoping to find any pieces of information or clues that may have been missed by their Portugese counterparts.
A friend of the McCanns' said the police were not specifically looking for a body, but were hoping to rule possible scenarios out as well as find new information.
The source told the Mirror: 'There will be earth diggers everywhere and it will look very dramatic and it will be a heartbreaking and hugely emotional time for Madeleine's poor parents.'
'Certain areas should have been searched properly way back by the Portuguese authorities but were not.'
The latest Crimewatch television appeal for new leads on the hunt for Madeleine gave police fresh information and they are hoping that the digs might provide further clues.
Mr McCann, who on Saturday attended a prayer service in the his village of Rothley, Leicestershire, with about 100 supporters, on the seventh anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, said that the police were heading out to Portugal shortly.He said the detectives did have new evidence, and insisted he and his wife continued to hope for the best.
The cardiologist said: 'They are chipping away and there is new evidence. We are going to continue hoping we get a happy outcome and one day we will know what's happening.'
Brian Kennedy, 75, the great-uncle of Madeleine, who would now be ten, said the family was hoping for news as not knowing what had happened to the child was so difficult.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said it was protocol not to comment on specific reports on the McCann case.
News of the digs in Portugal comes after it emerged that British police were looking to speak to a British paedophile who was arrested at a campside in the Algarve in 2010 and extradited to Australia where he was wanted for a 1998 rape of an eight-year-old.
Officers are said to believe that Roderick Robinson, 77, who jumped bail in Australia and fled to the Far East following another conviction in the UK in 2012, may have information about a child sex ring operating in the Algarve when Madeleine went missing seven years ago.
Robinson received six months in prison after accepting a plea deal for indecently assaulting the child in Australia and fled to Thailand after he was released, but Thai authorities deported him back to the UK when they found out about his past.
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| Briton Roderick Robinson when he was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand |
He settled in Brighton, East Sussex, but, despite being made to sign the Sex Offenders Register, was convicted of molesting two girls, five and seven in 2012.
He received a year-long sentence but it was suspended for two years. What? What kind of sentence is that? He's on the Sex Offender Registry, he molests two little girls, he has a history of running and he gets a suspended sentence? Well that should teach him!
He changed his name and fled to the Far East soon after. Of course he did!
An international arrest warrant is out for Robinson, who at one point settled in Brighton before changing his name and going abroad.
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