2009.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/29/missing-child-ben-needham
This article is more than 16 years old. Eighteen years later, in harrowing detail, they reveal how they've coped with his loss, the criticism they've endured and why the McCann case has re-opened so many old wounds
2001
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jun/23/guardianletters6
Lost boy's family upset by TV Claim that suggests that the Needham family were upset by claims made in the show.
Video on the 30th Anniversary of Bens disappearance
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=wwXIfr&v=1383417562756178&rdid=0JtGSNB7EyJVqBBT
Video of the Makris St, Irakles where Ben disappeared, posted in 2021
2011
A retired Doctor claims he saw Ben in Larissa.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/259920/New-hunt-for-Ben-Needham-after-doctor-says-I-saw-him
February 2011
Fresh hope that British police are to investigate.
July 19th
New hope in the search for Ben after the case features on Greek TV
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/19/greece-missing-briton-ben-needham
October 8th 2011
Bens case is reopened
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-missing-persons-file-84004
November 21st
Bens story is featured on Australian TV
https://youtu.be/XEwKWokwBSo?si=rpfL6P1TOaW38irr
December 2011
Bens DNA is obtained and put on databases taken from his baby guthrie test.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-dna-profile-hope-97152
September 16th 2012
Gypsies kidnappers, paedophile rings and a speedboat abduction have all been linked to the 21-months-old's disappearance on the Greek island of Kos
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-happened-ben-needham-theories-8847749
2012
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/oct/18/ben-needham-polce-excavate-toddler-kos
The specialist officers from police forces in the UK, led by South Yorkshire police, will excavate a mound of rubble close to the home where Ben's mother, Kerry, and grandparents lived in July 1991, when he went missing aged 21 months.
Oct 2012
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ben-needham-police-to-start-digging-1384886
As a team of British search experts yesterday arrived in Greece to dig up the site after a Mirror investigation led them to the mound.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ben-needham-dig-elite-british-1386561
New leads emerge after a Greek Tv appearance.
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/story/2012-12-10/is-this-ben-needham
2013
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/28/ben-needham-kerry-needham-interview
British toddler Ben Needham vanished in 1991 on the Greek island of Kos. Now his mother has written a memoir and here she talks to the writer who has followed the case since the mid-90s and come to know the family well.
News of a young girl being found after being abducted in Greece by gypsys.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-kerry-greeks-2472103
A man is Cyprus believed to be Ben is ruled out by DNA
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-reveals-heartbreak-2653599
2 separate sources identify a boy that could be Ben.
2014
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/15/ben-needham-family-to-sue-home-office
Ben Needham’s family is preparing to take the home secretary to court in an attempt to secure funding for British police to pursue suspects who might be linked to the toddler’s disappearance 23 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/06/home-office-funds-ben-needham-search
2015
The Home Office has agreed to fund a team of British detectives to help search for toddler Ben Needham who went missing in Greece more than 20 years ago.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-distraught-mum-blasts-6128447
Article from 2015 revisiting the claim that a Greek prisoners cousin had Ben in their hands.
2015.
www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/may/16/ben-needham-family-make-appeal-greek-tv-toddler
The family of todder Ben Needham, who vanished 24 years ago while on holiday in Greece, make a TV appeal to the Greek people for any information on his whereabouts on Friday. Following the appeal, South Yorkshire police said a number of calls were received and detectives are working with the new information. Ben, from Sheffield, vanished on 24 July 1991 after travelling to the island of Kos with his family.
Police are investigating a number of potential new leads in the case of British toddler Ben Needham, who disappeared 24 years ago while on holiday in Greece.
South Yorkshire police said “a number of calls” were received following an appeal made on Greek TV by Ben’s mother on Friday night. These include potential sightings of Ben, as well as a claim by a man who says he could be him.
April 2015
3 generations of the Needham family travel to Greece to meet a man who thought he was Ben.
DNA results on a man the family and himself believed was Ben are not a match.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartache-ben-needhams-family-after-5526045
May 2015
Police offer a 10k reward for information leading to Ben
https://www.itv.com/news/2015-05-15/police-offer-10-000-reward-to-find-ben-needham
New leads are given to police after the family appear on Greek Tv 'Light at the end of the tunnel'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-family-say-we-5720157?ICID
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-says-witness-5732599
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/578894/Soldier-offers-information-on-missing-Brit-Ben-Needham
July 2015
Notorious gypsy family is interviewed by South Yorkshire Police in Greece on connection to Bens abduction
Kerry blasts Greek prisoner for changing his story in Bens disappearance
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-distraught-mum-blasts-6128447
August 2015
Greek cops announce they have EIGHT different theories as to what happened to Ben
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ben-needham-greek-cops-eight-6220876
October 2015
Police reveal new leads on Bens disappearance.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cops-searching-ben-needham-hail-6729382
January 2016
The search for Ben locates a man in Canada thought to be Ben.
September 2016.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/16/ben-needham-mother-kerry-missing-toddler-digger-acci
2016
The search for toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos has resumed after the owner of the land being excavated raised concerns about the dig, which has unearthed an ancient burial site.
The landowner, Stefanos Troumouhis, was reportedly concerned he would not be able to farm the land if it was deemed a site of archaeological interest
2016
September 2016
Police reveal mound of earth they will dig in the search for Ben.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-police-say-this-8871453?ICID
September 2016
Kerry Needham fears she will die of heartbreak if she doesnt find out what happened to her son, Ben.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-terrified-mum-fears-8845393
29th September *VIDEO*
Police halt dig after ancient burial ground unearthed.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=wwXIfr&v=1341932002505964&rdid=1JRmawg9j7Unw47S
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=wwXIfr&v=1342863672412797&rdid=LLdsxa7Ynbnmhe3N
Police examine soil samples around a cess tank discovered at the Farmhouse
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-detectives-closely-examining-8943303
1st October
The dig continues after burial mound halted the dig.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-cops-resume-search-8953092
October 4th *VIDEO*
Detectives instruct workers to demolish extension of the farmhouse.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?mibextid=wwXIfr&v=1346487022050462&rdid=OJ0vrrobQXsetWlE
October 5th
Bens Grandfather reveals his fears saying if anything was to be found they would have found it by now.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-grandad-reveals-fears-8986842
October 7th
Police move dig to site 2.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-detectives-move-onto-9000374
October 8th
Police instruct a deeper dig at second site.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-detectives-launch-deeper-9008223
October 10th 2016
Kerry Needham, Bens heartbroken Mum, breaks down on UKTV
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/good-morning-britain-viewers-tears-9014506
October 17th 2016
Detectives find item belonging to Ben Needham - and believe missing boy died in accident
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/detectives-find-item-belonging-ben-9061983
he detective leading the search on the island of Kos said on Monday that he believed Ben died as a result of an accident near the farmhouse in Iraklis where he was last seen playing on 24 July 1991. He was just 21 months old.
DI Jon Cousins, the senior investigating officer from South Yorkshire police, said: “My team and I know that machinery, including a large digger, was used to clear an area of land on 24 July 1991 behind the farmhouse that was being renovated by the Needhams. It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result of an accident near to the farmhouse in Iraklis where he was last seen playing.
A picture of the toy car found in the search for ben was released. It is believed ben had the car in his possession the day he disappeared.
2016
Police release full statement on why they believe ben died in the digger accident.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-died-result-accident
The 'confession' made by the digger driver which prompted the dig.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-prime-suspect-digger-8846635
2016
Kerry reveals villagers on Kos know exactly what happened to Ben.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/ben-needhams-mum-claims-villagers-9444737
Eddie Needham, Bens Grandfather reveals he spoke with suspect on the day Ben disappeared.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-grandfather-reveals-spoke-8860116
October 30th 2016
Ben Needham case has hallmarks of cover-up with cops wanting probe closed quickly and sex lies in bid to blacken mum's name
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needham-case-hallmarks-cover-9161080
2017
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/24/ben-needham-blood-found-on-toy-car-and-sandal
Signs of blood have been found on a toy car and sandal believed to have belonged to toddler Ben Needham, who disappeared on Kos 26 years ago.
South Yorkshire police said the development “corroborates and strengthens” the theory Ben died in an accident at his grandparents’ farmhouse where he had been staying.
2018
DNA results are released stating DNA taken from the items of interest from the dig are NOT a match to Ben.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/missing-toddler-ben-needhams-mum-13664149
2018
The family reiterate DNA taken from the items of interest discovered on the 2016 dig does NOT match Ben.
2020
The family launch a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a reward.
the family write a letter to Boris Johnson seeking assistance.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-missing-ben-needham-writes-22922002
2021
The family explain in an interview why the think Ben is still alive.
The family speak out after news is released of a credible new lead in Corfu.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/police-probing-claims-ben-needham-24605062
2021
A new age progression is released on how Ben could possible look aged 32.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dramatic-new-image-shows-how-24597488
July 2021
The day before the anniversary of Ben’s disappearance, his mother, Kerry, said she believed they were wrong and that he was still alive.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/who-is-ben-needham-and-what-happened-to-him-a7311021
July 22nd 2021
Dramatic new image shows how Ben Needham would look now 30 years after he vanished
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dramatic-new-image-shows-how-24597488
July 23rd 2021
Five Brit witnesses think they saw missing Ben Needham on Corfu after he vanished
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/five-brit-witnesses-think-saw-24648113
2022
The family make another appeal for information on the 31st anniversary of Bens disappearance.
A waitress named Maria from Corfu says she didn't snatch Ben after credible information is sent to the Find Ben Needham Social pages.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-didnt-snatch-ben-needham-24659886
2023
Kerry speaks of fresh hope after a British boy was found after being missing abroad.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fresh-hope-hunt-missing-ben-31774340
Kerry releases a statement stating there is no proof Ben has died in an accident.
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/ben-needhams-family-say-theres-no-proof-hes-dead-4372227
DNA taken from a young boy found in a German river is concluded not a match to Ben
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-breaks-silence-30935221
After another man came forward claiming to Ben the family register their DNA on genealogy databases.
September 8th 2023
The mum of missing Ben Needham believes her son was abducted - fearing a “sickening” link with Germany that’s haunted her for years.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-ben-needhams-mum-fears-30913664
September 11th 2023
Ben Needham's mum Kerry, 51, says she is a 'nervous wreck' after South Yorkshire Police confirmed they were 'looking into' remains found in the river Danube
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/missing-ben-needhams-mum-fears-30913664
October 14th 2023
The family of a Sheffield boy who went missing say there is still no proof he is dead - seven years after police ended their search for
https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/ben-needhams-family-say-theres-no-proof-hes-dead-4372227
October 29th 2023
December 30th 2023
The mum of missing Ben Needham says Alex Batty’s reappearance gives her fresh hope of seeing her son again.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fresh-hope-hunt-missing-ben-31774340
2024.
Kerry sends heartbreaking message to Ben on his Birthday.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-sends-heartbreaking-33988688
July 2024
Missing Ben Needham's mum desperately begs UK police to return to Kos to search for son
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/missing-ben-needhams-mum-desperately-33319428
DNA is taken from a man in Denmark who claims he could be Ben
DNA results reveal the man is not a match to Ben.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-reveals-major-33598441
February 5th 2025
Ben Needham's mum 'stalked for two years' by man 'falsely claiming to be missing son'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ben-needhams-mum-stalked-two-34617407
July 23rd 2025
A police force in the US has been helping the Ben Needham inquiry after his mum was sent a “disturbing” anonymous sighting tip
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mystery-man-claims-spotted-missing-35594930
Ben Needham's mum Kerry in 'blind panic' after tip-off about missing toddler sighting
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mystery-man-claims-spotted-missing-35594930
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