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It’s been almost impossible not to keep up with the Madeleine McCann abduction case, given that nearly every newspaper seems to have some sort of new story connected to the investigation every day.

However, today’s release of a drawing believed to be the abductor is possibly the most ridiculous yet.

The drawing was produced by an FBI-trained forensic artist (how did he get involved?) and depicts a man that one of the McCanns’ friends saw around the time of the abduction.

Leaving aside the obvious question of why it’s taken so long to get this done and released, I have to question how helpful it’s going to be to the investigation. It could be absolutely any dark-haired man of average height, it’s so vague. In fact, if I put a bit of gel in my hair, it could be me.

I always used to chuckle at fotofit images released by the police that looked nothing like anyone on earth. This is surely 10, if not 100 times worse.

He gives with one hand and takes away with the other. The news that Simply Red are to disband after 25 years caused a sort of Mexican sound wave the length and breadth of the country, as hordes cheered the news.

Sadly, in the very next breath the strawberry-blonde frontman Mick Hucknall reduced the very same crowds to tears as he revealed that he would be continuing as a solo artist (err, isn’t that effectively what Simply Red were anyway?).

I just want to use my name from 2010 and try and explore something new that’s got a bit more of an edge and a little more drive

The problem I have with the falsetto-voiced Mancunian is that whenever I hear his name mentioned I can’t help thinking of one particular story.

Back in the 90s, he was out on the town with one ex-EastEnder Martine McCutcheon, who found herself very much the worse for wear. In an effort to make herself feel a little better she threw up… all over Mick’s dreadlocks!

Funny? Tragi-comic? You decide, but he knows we’ll miss him when he’s gone!

One of the freakiest things about having a blog is the ability to see where people are reading it from.

Now clearly I don’t mean their bedroom or at work, I’m talking country here.

It was a surprise to see someone in Nigeria had stumbled across the nonsense that I write, but then I spotted that someone from the Netherlands Antilles had visited.

Wow! The Dutch Antilles – I have to confess not even being 100% sure where they are.

I’ve since checked and it’s a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Curacao.

Goodness knows what they typed into Google to reach this space. I hope it was worth it! If you’re still reading, let me know, please!