Everyone has to remember what a tragedy this is. However, if it had taken place in England the parents would have been subjjected to intense investigation by the British Police. Surely the McCann's have a duty to assist the police in their investigations at all times.

We must recall that if you live by the sword you might very well die by it - the same is true of the media. Let the police do their job without interference, and let all of us wait for the outcome of the investigation.

Media - get off the case unless you can report fact.

Catalan Bob, Girona, Spain

It's also important for the parents to be cleared. They have two others children... it is not very easy to be guilty for the rest of the life.

nicole, obernai, france

Is this to help find the "missing child", or to clear the parents?

marie, glasgow, scotland

i don't care who leads the investigation;i just hope madeline is found safe and well soon . keep your chin up mccann family.

sam, hartlepol, uk

Linda of Capetown - I feel your comment about Roy of Newcastle to be completely uncalled for. And as for saying 'there but for the grace of God go any of us' - that is an insult to the majority of parents who would never have dreamed of leaving three very young children alone in bed while going out to drink with friends - and not such a short distance as has been made out either. It seems that many people are more concerned over the parents' feelings than they are about what poor Madeleine may be suffering at this time, or about what fatality may have happened to her. Children should always be a parents' first consideration.

woo, Alicante, Spain

I don't blame the McCanns for insisting on what THEY believe to be right. Other people have theories and suspicions based on NO EVIDENCE OF ANTHING BUT INUENDO GOSSIP AND SLURS BY "SOURCES"
D.McCormack Cumbria

D Mary McCormack, Carlisle , England

I am confused. I read that the McCanns left their children alone because they did not want strangers to look after them, now I am reading that the creche nannies who know the child are part of the McCann's list! Can somebody explain that to me? Maybe because of the cost of wine and tapas which is getting more expensive in Portugal, they simply couldn't afford both - baby sitter and a nigth out?

Skirmante Gough, Berchules, Spain

People who think they have a right (based on nothing other than media reports) publicly to criticise these parents who have lost a child should be ashamed of themselves.

Sophie, London,

Ray is correct - it is a farce. If (and it's a big if) this report is correct why were these 25 names not given to the police months ago? If it is credible to suppose they are 'witnesses' (they actually saw Madeleine being abducted?) it is impossible to believe they have not already been questioned more than once. If they have something worthwhile to say it is equally incredible that at least some of them have not already reported what they saw. Or are they all supposed to be in the abductors' pay? If there were any abductors that is.

Roger Tilbury, Worthing,

they talk so well to the press...
I wish they could do the same to police.

maria, Lisbon, Portugal

Good grief!
How old is this "news"?
Of course everyone is dancing to tune Mccann!

diddy, germany,

Ray get a life, we only know what the reporters tell us... i am sure there is alot we don't know and i would do exactly as the Mccanns are doing to keep this search alive if it were my daughter that was still missing.

kris, australia,

The best thing would be for Team McCann to be allowed to run the investigation. They already seem to be able to dictate terms to the media.

Hamad Lone, London, England

Ray in Newcastle - if your daughter had been snatched, wouldn't you do whatever you could to bring her back??? I don't think the Mc Canns are complaining about being in the media as much as they are distressed by the wild and lunatic reports about them which amount to harrassment at best. Mostly its journos from nasty tabloids trying to make a sale that are turning this tragedy into a farce.

There - but for the grace of God - go any of us...

Linda, Cape Town,

The McCann's complain about being in the media spotlight, but really do bring a lot of it on themselves! I don't think they are the ones who are pulling the strings. The whole investigation is turning into a farse.

Ray , Newcastle, UK