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Good afternoon. Police looking for the missing three-year-old Mikaeel | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Kular have found a body. It's understood his mother has been | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
detained for questioning. The boy was reported missing from his home | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
in Edinburgh on Thursday. A bungalow in Kirkcaldy in Fife is being | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
searched. Live to our correspondent Robert Hall, who's there now. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Robert. Adam, the dramatic shift in this | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
investigation came soon after midnight, hundreds of people have | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
been asked to rejoin the search this morning. They awoke to the sad news | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
that they would no longer be needed. The hunt for Mikaeel Kular had moved | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
from the streets of suburban Edinburgh to this rain-soaked wood | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
in the Fife. His face had become familiar to all of us, the smiling | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
three-year-old who had reportedly vanished from his bed. Almost 48 | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
hours after that report was received, Assistant Chief, the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Malcolm Graham emerged from Edinburgh's police headquarters with | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
grim news. Good morning, everyone. The investigation into the | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
disappearance of Mikaeel Kular has been wide-ranging and fast-moving. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
As a result of these inquiries, I can confirm that we have recovered | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
the body of a young boy in Fife. Shortly before midnight. | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
20 miles north of Edinburgh, a major crime scene investigation has begun | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
in and around a bungalow in the town of Kirkaldy. The area currently | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
sealed off includes the house and a woodland to the rear of the | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
property, popular with local walkers. Mikaeel's mother, Rosdeep | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
Kular, has been detained by police. The house is said to belong to a | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
relative of her mother. Police say she had told them that she put her | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
son to bed on Wednesday evening, when she went to check on him in the | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
morning, he was gone. Hundreds of local people rallied to help with | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
two days of searches, but there was no trace of Mikaeel. Some of those | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
who had been involved laid flowers in his memory. Forensic teams have | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
now arrived in Kirkaldy. There work year is likely to continue for many | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
hours yet. -- their work year. Under Scottish law, Rosdeep Kular | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
must be charged or released within a maximum of 24 hours, so we are | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
expecting a further update from police later this afternoon. | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
The former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord McAlpine has died. He | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
was 71. His family said he passed away peacefully last night at his | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
home in Italy. Lord McAlpine, a close advisor to Margaret Thatcher, | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
was more recently wrongly implicated in a child-abuse scandal. Alex | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
Forsyth has this report. Lord McAlpine was at one time a very | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
powerful figure within the Conservative Party. He was deputy | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
chairman as well as treasurer in Margaret Thatcher's government. He | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
was considered among the closest and most loyal aides. Known as a jovial | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
and cultured man, outside of his political career, he was an author, | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
art collector, property developer and fundraiser. He spent the later | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
years of his life out of the public eye, running a bed and breakfast in | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
southern Italy. Most recently, Lord McAlpine was wrongly implicated in | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
child sex abuse allegations by the BBC Newsnight programme, for which | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
she received an apology and a substantial damages. Today, he was | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
described by the Prime Minister as a dedicated supporter of the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Conservative Party. David Cameron said his thoughts are with his | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
family. In other tributes, he was called a man of integrity who made a | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
huge contribution to public life. Lord McAlpine, who's died at the age | :04:21. | :04:21. | |
of 71. Two Britons are now known to be | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
among the 21 people killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. One | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
of those who died was a Labour Party candidate in the forthcoming | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
European elections. The bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
frequented by westerners in the capital city, Kabul. Mike Wooldridge | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
reports. This report contains flashing images. | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
The scene outside the popular Lebanese restaurant after the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
attack. It took place around 7:30 in the evening local time as the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
restaurant was full of diners. First a suicide bomber detonated his | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
explosives outside the gate. Then two gunmen rushed in and started | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
shooting people inside. Among those killed was a Labour candidate for | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
the European Parliament, Del Singh. The party today paid tribute to his | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
work in various conflict zones. This is one of Kabul's deadliest | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
attacks. The UN lost four of its staff. We are very shocked, and we | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
are very sad, and it is a very heavy day for the UN in Afghanistan. The | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
cuckoo survived described his escape. -- cuckoo. I got to the | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
roof, I stayed back behind the chimney for two or three hours. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
Prater and is regarded the tavern as a home away from home. -- patrons. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
It is a continuing sign of the vulnerability of such targets in | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
this year of the withdrawal of NATO troops. | :05:55. | :05:55. | |
The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says the party's former chief | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
executive Lord Rennard should be barred from the parliamentary party | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
until he apologises to women who claim they've been sexually | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
harassed. An internal investigation found that while the claims could | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
not be proven beyond reasonable doubt, they were credible. The | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
report recommended that Lord Rennard apologise. He denies all | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
allegations. Parts of the UK are at risk of | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
flooding today with further heavy rain expected to fall. Major roads | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
in Surrey, West Sussex and Kent have already been closed. The Met Office | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
has issued yellow weather warnings, asking people to be aware, and the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Environment Agency has more than 40 flood warnings in place. The | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
heaviest downpours are expected in south-west England and south Wales. | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
Andy Murray has reached the fourth round of the Australian Open after | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
what he said was his best win since back surgery. The Wimbledon champion | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
defeated Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets in Melbourne. Next up, | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
he will play the French qualifier Stephane Robert for a place in the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
quarterfinals. That's it for now, we're back here | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
on BBC One at a quarter past five. Stay with us, | :07:04. | :07:05. |