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		Maddie: Plea for new hunt  
		 
		
		
		KATE and Gerry McCann yesterday begged the Portuguese people to help 
		find their missing daughter 
		 
		
		Madeleine - by signing a petition calling 
		for a new search. 
		 
		During a trip to Lisbon they asked the nation to back their new plea to 
		the Portuguese and British governments to reopen the case. They already 
		have 34,000 signatures, but want 100,000. 
		 
		Kate, 42, said: "If we have no help from the authorities we must 
		continue to look for ourselves. It's very difficult." 
		 
		Maddie was nearly four when she disappeared from a holiday  
		
		apartment in
		 
		
		Praia da Luz in 2007. The police investigation was shelved in 2008. 
		 
		The couple were also in the country in a new bid to 
		 
		
		halt the sale of a
		
		
		book about Maddie by 
		 
		
		Goncalo Amaral - the police chief sacked from the 
		case.   |