SHANNON MATTHEWS 9 - Dewsbury, Yorkshire (UK) - 19/02/08

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The Press Association

6 March 2008

Mother "convinced" Shannon is alive

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrTf_ARhnwk6I8PxxASX28vPcS8Q

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The Sun

7 March 2008

Gran's Plea over missing Shannon

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article886862.ece

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Birstall News

7 March 2008

Sniffer Dogs used

http://www.birstallnews.co.uk/news/Sniffer-dogs-used.3847753.jp

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Birstall News

7 March 2008

Shannon's disappearance has torn our family apart

http://www.birstallnews.co.uk/news/Shannon39s-disappearance-has-torn-our.3847121.jp

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ITN News

Fri March 7 '08

Shannon Seen "Crying" On Day She Went Missing

http://itn.co.uk/news/372fc39b885161fb76e859e130882407.html

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SKY News

7 March 2008

Shannon "bullied on day she vanished"


http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1308367,00.html

* This is heartbreaking.Please let her be found this w/e. If you can help in any way big or small, please do for this little girl today.

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BBC News

7 March 2008

Shannon Police issue new picture

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7283180.stm

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Candles for Shannon.


http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=ShanM

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The Gazette

8th Mar '08

Father's plea over missing Shannon

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/national_news/index.var.193525.0.fathers_plea_over_missing_shannon.php?

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Hope it will be good news for Shannon soon.

TEZZA

The People

9th March 2008

Maddie's parents in cash offer

http://tinyurl.com/34qrp2

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icWales.icnetwork

Sunday Mar 9 2009

Missing Shannon ‘just as important as Madeleine’

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/columnists/2008/03/09/missing-shannon-just-as-important-as-madeleine-91466-20582802/

EMMA

http://tinyurl.com/2o8eep

From Telegraph:

"Missing Shannon's Mother Rues Lack of Concern

By Olga Craig

Last Updated: 11:13am GMT 09/03/2008

It is the knock on the door that Karen Matthews fears most. At night, in the brief interludes when she can sleep, she dreams of answering a persistent rap to find an apologetic police officer at her door mouthing words of sympathy.

In his hand is her nine-year-old daughter Shannon's pink-and-black swimsuit, or perhaps her blue striped towel. Sometimes her black puffa jacket, her school sweater or her distinctive pink and grey Bratz boots.

Something that Mrs Matthews recognises instantly as belonging to Shannon and with which her daughter would not willingly have parted."

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The Daily Record

Mar 10 2008

I Never Hit Shannon Matthews, Claims Her Stepdad

http://tinyurl.com/yrajq4

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The Daily Mirror

10/03/2008

By Will Payne

Shannon Matthews' stepdad denies claims he hit her

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/10/shannon-matthews-stepdad-denies-claims-he-hit-her-89520-20346283/

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The Guardian Blog - Roy Greensalde

March 10, 2008 7:47 AM

Shannon: portrait of a mother's anguish

The media's continuing concern about its differing reactions to the disappearances of four year-old Madeleine McCann and nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has been explored yet again in the Sunday Telegraph in a fine piece by Olga Craig. Just as the Independent on Sunday asked the week before, she wonders why Shannon's disappearance has not been at the forefront of national attention.

She writes: "This is an awkward question to pose and an uncomfortable one to answer. And it is in further comparison to the search for Madeleine that some hard truths become evident." Then she tries to come up with some answers...

The mother, Karen Matthews, "does not possess the poise or eloquence of Kate McCann, something which helped that family attract wide publicity and generate a worldwide search... Nor does she have the benefit of a focused and driven husband. Instead, Shannon comes from a deeply fractured family with a complicated home life."

Craig goes on to explain the tangled domestic life of Mrs Matthews before describing the area of Dewsbury Moor, West Yorkshire, where the family live. It is not a sink estate, she says, but quotes a local churchman who calls it "an area of acute social deprivation".

Nothing new in all that, of course. But what distinguishes the Craig article is the way in which she paints a poignant portrait of Mrs Matthews's obvious anguish. Three weeks on from the day her daughter failed to arrive home, it is one of the most sympathetic description of Shannon's mother to appear in print.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/

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Yorkshire Post

10 March 2008

Let Shannon go, pleads father

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Let-Shannon-go-pleads-father.3859866.jp

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Channel 4 News

Last Modified: 10 Mar 2008

Source: ITN

Stepdad denies hitting missing Shannon

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/stepdad+denies+hitting+missing+shannon/1747647

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The Yorkshire Evening Post

10th March 2008

By Richard Edwards

SEARCH FOR SHANNON: Let her go, pleads dad

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/SEARCH-FOR-SHANNON-Let-her.3860609.jp

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The Daily Mail

Last updated at 10:20am on 10th March 2008

Shannon's stepfather is innocent says her real father

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=529112&in_page_id=1770

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Dewsbury Reporter

March 10 2008

SHANNON MATTHEWS LATEST - 4.07PM

http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/12679/SHANNON-MATTHEWS-LATEST--128PM.3812417.jp

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The Daily Mirror

10/03/2008

By Will Payne

I THINK HE'S A DECENT GUY..

Missing Shannon's real dad backs under-fire stepfather

Shannon Matthews' real father yesterday leapt to the defence of beleaguered stepdad Craig Meehan.

As Craig fiercely rejected claims that he hit nine-year-old Shannon, Leon Rose, 29, said: "I've always thought he was a decent guy.

"Whenever I went to pick up Shannon he'd be around. It was obvious she looked up to him. If she's got time for him, then so have I."

Leon, who split from Shannon's mum Karen seven years ago, spoke out amid allegations that Craig was a cruel dad.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/10/i-think-he-s-a-decent-guy-89520-20346390/

HIPPY

BBC News

10/3/2008

Shannon 'abducted', relative says

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7287319.stm

ZANNIE

The Sun

11th March 2008

Britain needs to find Shannon

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article900503.ece

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Press Association

11th March 2008

Shannon reward increased to £50,000

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJaKchDKp84lgkDKHd6hpII00F1w