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News in brief: 05/06/2014

MISSING GIRL: British police searching for Madeleine McCann yesterday returned to a patch of scrubland in Spain for a third day.

Metropolitan Police officers were driven to the edge of the cordoned-off area in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in unmarked vans before walking on to the site.

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood declined to speak to reporters at the scene.

 

MISSING BRITON: Police searching for backpacker Gareth Huntley in the Malaysian jungle have found a body, the Foreign Office said yesterday.

The 34-year-old has not been seen since starting a trek to a waterfall in Tioman Island last Tuesday morning.

The body, which has not been confirmed as Mr Huntley, was found in a pond near where he had been working.

 

MUSIC: A record label yesterday lost a High Court copyright fight over 13 Bob Marley songs.

Judge Richard Meade rejected that Cayman Music’s claim that the rights to the songs, including No Woman, No Cry, were not transferred to Blue Mountain Music under a 1992 agreement.

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