Friday, January 28, 2011

Madeleine McCann: An Exclusive Warning

mccann brussels Madeleine McCann: An Exclusive WarningMADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
AFTER months of the McCanns story is the media growing cynical?
This the headline in today’s Mirror:
McCanns’ new Euro MPs plea – EXCLUSIVE WARNING
Look out – here they come…
Kate and Gerry McCann will go back to the European Parliament next week in a last-ditch effort to persuade MEPs to back their missing child alert system.
The couple visited Strasbourg in April and begged for support for a scheme that would automatically alert police in all EU states as soon as a child goes missing.
But only a quarter of MEPs have signed up so far – and they need at least half of the Parliament’s 785 members if it is to become law.
And they need the signatures by the end of the month.
The McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “We remain confident we will get them. It’s normal for MEPs to wait until the last minute to.”
As they don’t say in Ireland: “Let’s hear it for the EU”…