Madeleine's parents to move to new base as the search continues

Gerry and Kate McCann moved into an apartment the day after four-year-old Madeleine was snatched as the couple ate dinner yards away.

But they have been looking for new accommodation because the apartment is booked for the holiday season, The apartment owners have allowed the McCanns to stay there since she disappeared last month but in two weeks time the apartment is booked for a family holiday in the popular resort.

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Gerry, 39, said on his daily blog on their campaign website www.bringmadeleinehome.com: "If Madeleine is not found in the next couple of weeks we need to move out of the apartment we have been staying."

Cardiac consultant Gerry added: "The owners have been extremely understanding, as they came here for a holiday and relocated to another apartment to save us moving again.

"This degree of flexibility does not exist in the resort in high season."

Gerry, who lives with Kate, 38, and their three children in Rothley, near Leicester, added: "We have managed to look at a few properties to rent in the last couple of days and I think we have found somewhere suitable to live until we return back to the UK with Madeleine."

The family - including two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie - have used the apartment in Praia da Luz to launch the massive campaign to raise worldwide awareness in the search for Madeleine.

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They moved in the day after Madeleine disappeared as Portuguese detectives searched the two-bedroom property where their daughter went missing to find vital clues in the hunt missing youngster.

The hunt moved to Malta last week after it emerged there had been 14 reported sightings of her in the past month.

The search began when a Maltese woman contacted police on May 27, claiming she had seen Madeleine with a man in the capital Valletta.