Funds to find Madeleine ‘likely to dry up next year’

Adele Roberts says that taking part in

with a stoma is helping her to “reclaim my body” after bowel cancer.

The former Radio 1 host believes that taking part will help others getting to grips with stomas, particularly children.

“I feel like it’s allowing me to take back who I am again,” she explains. “I want to do this to bring awareness to bowel cancer and show what our bodies can do.”

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Adele, 44, said she was thrilled to meet a boy aged around six with his mother during training.

Getting emotional, she adds: “He’d never seen anybody that had a stoma before and that’s the reason I’m doing it.” Ahead of the ITV series starting on Sunday, Adele says she and her professional ice-rink partner Mark Hanretty are having to adapt during training.

She said: “Because I’ve got a hole on the right side of my torso, I’m having to relearn how to use my body… and rotation’s hard.”

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Madeleine Mccann

FUNDING to investigate Madeleine Mccann’s disappearance may soon dry up, an ex-detective warns.

The Met Police were granted €130,000 by the Home Office for the case in May last year, down from €350,000 the previous year.

A private fund set up to help find her, Leaving No Stone Unturned Ltd, which is invested in stocks and shares, went from €1.13m to €1.07m in a year.

And sales of a book by Madeleine’s mum Kate earned just €250 in the 12 months to March 2023.

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Former Met detective Shabnam Chaudhri, who is a missing children specialist, said: “I would be surprised if they get any more... after next year.

“If they get funding it will be a very, very small amount.”

But she added: “If there is any new information then they will review it.”

Madeleine vanished from a Portugal holiday let aged almost four in 2007.

Prime suspect Christian Brueckner, 46, is to stand trial next month on unrelated sex crime charges.