McCanns 'break silence' in papers

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The Sunday papers examine the case of Madeleine McCann - described by the Sunday Times as the most extraordinary disappearance of recent years.

In a Sunday Mirror interview before she was made an official suspect Kate McCann says she is being framed.

"Police don't want a murder in Portugal and the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here," she says.

Gerry McCann tells the News of the World: "We're entirely innocent and will clear our name."

What began for Kate and Gerry McCann as the nightmare of their daughter's abduction, the Mail on Sunday says, has become the torture of being suspects.

According to the Sunday Express, British police sources suggest forensic evidence has been greatly overplayed.

The Independent on Sunday says the McCanns are worried the developments will jeopardise the hunt for Madeleine.

The Sunday Telegraph says the couple will ask Foreign Secretary David Miliband to intervene in the case.

'Dangerously overweight'

The Observer's main story is a government proposal to give all expectant mothers a one-off payment to encourage them to buy healthy food.

One problem it identifies is paying the money to everyone, regardless of need.

Meanwhile, the News of the World says three children have been put into council care because they are dangerously overweight.

It says social workers in London, Lincolnshire and Cumbria accused their parents of neglect.

Pet networking

The Sunday Times reports that Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is to issue a direct challenge to Westminster's control of UK defence policy.

He is to seek a ban on transporting Trident nuclear warheads, it says.

Zac Goldsmith - the green activist who advised a Conservative policy group - complains about excess packaging in an article for the Mail on Sunday.

And the Sunday Mirror highlights pet versions of social networking website Facebook, called Dogbook and Catbook.