MCCANN MOVIE MADE UP

The Daily Express really is a vile, horrible little rag. You couldn't find a paper happier about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - after all it means it now has, ten years after the fact, something other than Princess bloody Diana to write about. So what's the latest load of speculative crap its hacks have come up with?

They say that there are 'rumours' that at least "two major studios" are planning dramatisations of the whole sorry, tragic affair, and that "studio executives" are "beginning to whisper" about two potential A-list leads to play Gerry and Kate McCann; namely Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchet.

So there you have a shameless excuse to cash-in on a family tragedy and run pictures of film stars while also tugging at the heartstrings of a moronic and suggestible readership. Charming.

Explaining why no one else has heard of this ghoulish and invented scheme, the Express makes up a quote from an "unnamed movie insider".

"Obviously, it's not something that people are going to be making a lot of noise about yet as the investigation is still continuing," the non-existent insider says. "Anyone who spoke publicly about such a project would come in for a great deal of criticism," unless, it would seem, they worked for the Daily Express.

I hope they all sleep well at night.