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IT’S the media’s Third Summer Of Madeleine McCann and the hacks are planning their summer holidays? Guess where they’re going?

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Drugs? Alcohol? A nanny?

Newstalk radio presenter Tom Dunne, his wife Audrey have two girls, Eva, aged two, and Skye, who’s 10 months old, are going to… Portugal.

“The reason we didn’t go abroad was just fear. It’s as simple as that,” he says.

All aboard!

The Kerr family are travelling to Portugal later this month and the Madeleine McCann abduction is something they are keenly aware of.

“The Maddie abduction would make us extra cautious. You would be very aware of not leaving kids on their own on holidays. I wouldn’t let Emma out of my sight for a minute,” says Michelle.