The fresh search for Madeleine McCann has ended after investigators spent three days in areas near to where the three-year-old disappeared 18 years ago in Portugal. German investigators left the search area at about 17:15 local time before Portuguese counterparts then removed the outer cordon from the site.

A huge search operation for Madeleine McCann in the Algarve region of Portugal has come to an end after three days of searching scrubland and abandoned buildings. The search, by investigators from Germany and Portugal, concentrated on a 120-acre area of land which search teams examined with chainsaws, diggers and a ground-penetrating radar.

The 3-year-old girl's 2007 disappearance sparked one of the most publicized missing-person investigations in British history. The case is open again.