ABOVE: Kate McCann has banned protesters from handing out leaflets about Madeleine's disappearance

KATE McCann has banned protesters from handing out controversial leaflets about daughter Madeleine's disappearance as she promotes her new book.

The anguished mum faces the fourth anniversary of her daughter's disappearance on Tuesday.

But Kate, 43, has consulted lawyers after The Madeleine Foundation produced thousands of leaflets detailing what it says are '50 facts about the case the British media are not telling you'.

The group has started distributing them across the UK but it has been banned from putting them out in the McCanns' home village of Rothley, Leics.

Tony Bennett, who runs the foundation, said: 'There are a huge number of people who are sceptical and there is a demand for the other side of the story.'

Kate's book, called Madeleine, will be published on May 12, the little girl's eighth birthday. She is hoping it will prompt some new information about Madeleine vanishing from Praia da Luz, Portugal