Harnessing the Power of the Internet - Take a minute for Madeleine

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Can I take a moment of your time and ask you to read the following message.

Please take a minute of your time for Madeleine McCann and help spread this special message around the world.

A new film has been released by the UK’s police organisation for child protection - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre - aimed at anyone close to the person who was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. That person could be a relative, friend, work colleague or neighbour. Whoever they are, they have a secret that could reveal what happened to Madeleine.

In order to reach that person, CEOP are asking for the public’s help to share this message virally, via the internet, so that the message is so widespread it becomes one click away to the person who knows something about Madeleine’s disappearance. The message is then a constant reminder that it is never too late to do the right thing, to stop keeping this secret and pass this vital information to their local police.

You can view the full message which is part of a 60 second film at [URL="http://www.ceop.police.uk/"]http://www.ceop.police.uk/[/URL]

If you are online and part of an online community, you can help. Post the link on your social networking site, email your friends and colleagues and encourage them to share the film, blog and Tweet about the film and link to the website above. Do anything you can to spread this message around the world.

The message is available at [URL="https://owa.northantsfire.org.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=3e5c9ad70c7a4b3a869fe41825e7d89e&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ceop.police.uk%2f"]http://www.ceop.police.uk/[/URL] and is in seven different languages – English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

This initiative is supported by Leicestershire Police, Interpol, Europol and international police agencies as well as specialist charities and NGO’s such as the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Missing Children Europe and the UK charity Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT).

So, please help. Take a minute for Madeleine and help share this message around the world.

Thank you

Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre

[URL="http://www.ceop.police.uk/"]www.ceop.police.uk[/URL]

This is a bonafide message which I can vouch for.

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Madeleine McCann's parents receive boost as their company's profits soar helping search go on

EXCLUSIVE: The company set up by Kate and Gerry McCann - 'Find Madeleine - Leaving No Stone Unturned' - got the extra cash from royalties on back of Kate's book.


Madeleine was three when she was last seen on holiday with her parents in Portugal in May 2007 (Image: PA)

A company set up by Kate and Gerry McCann to fund the search for their daughter has had a boost in profits.

“Find Madeleine – Leaving No Stone Unturned” has more than £800,000 in assets, after making nearly £100,000 in the past year.

The company recorded losses in recent years as donations dwindled.

But its coffers have now swelled to £823,332 – partly due to proceeds from Kate’s book about Madeleine’s disappearance.

She donated £84,096 in royalties.

The former GP wrote “Madeleine” in 2011 to raise funds for the search and the book remains a best-seller.


Operation Grange was set up after Madeleine's parents made a plea to then Prime Minister David Cameron(Image: PA)

Find Madeleine... was set up by the couple in 2007 to manage the public money that flooded in.

The 2018 figure is up by nearly £100,000 on the previous year.

The company’s main activity is to “secure the safe return to her family of Madeleine McCann”.

Scotland Yard’s investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007, aged three, has so far cost
£11.75 million.


Maddie would now be aged 15 (Image: PA)


Kate and Gerry McCann (Image: PA)

The boost to the fund to find Madeleine comes just weeks after the parents of Madeleine McCann said they will never give up hope in the search for their daughter.

In a brief but poignant festive message, Kate and Gerry thanked all their supporters for their “kind and continuing good wishes” and say they “dearly miss” Maddie.

They urged: "May 2019 be a peaceful and positive one for us all.”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ma...g-13835272