Police have teamed up with a council to carry out bin searches in a bid to find fresh clues in their hunt for missing schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

About 50 officers specially trained in search tactics are scouring bins in the area near her West Yorkshire home as the inquiry moved into its seventh day.

Kirklees Council said waste teams were accompanying police and emptying the bins after checks had been made.

Shannon Matthews failed to return to her home in Dewsbury Moor on Tuesday.

Shannon found alive & well today

however, there does seem to be something rather strange about this case.<br><br>Post edited by: Ironside, at: 2008/03/14 21:38

her stepfather arrested because he was found in possession of child pornography, and now her mother has been arrested for perverting the course of justice, I thought was something not quite right about this

Shannon Matthews' mother has now been arrested in connection with her disappearance, and child neglect. It is rumoured that it may be something to do with trying to obtain money from Madeline McCann's fund.