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De jury begins in in Wales. Mark Bridger denies murdering April

Jones. Also this lunchtime: Men from the West Midlands planned to

used home-made bombs in an attack which police say could have proved

deadly. The Dutch have a new monarch. Queen

Beatrix abdicates to make way for her son who becomes the first king

of the Netherlands in more than 100 years. This is the scene in

Amsterdam where the investiture of the Willem-Alexander is taking

place in front of large crowds. No more perks for prisoners.

Prisoners will have to earn their privileges in the future.

Are a crisis in animal cruelty. The RSPCA say they are struggling to

cope as cases go up in England and Wales.

On BBC London: Separating cars from cyclists on

London roads - could the Dutch Hello, good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One. The jury in the trial of a man

accused of killing schoolgirl April Jones has heard how she was seen

getting into his car on the day she disappeared. Five-year-old April

vanished while playing on her bike near her home in mid-Wales last

year. Her body has never been found. A Prosecutions they had best friend

saw her talking to Mark Bridger and getting into his car. He denies

abducting and murdering April. The prosecution has just started

outlining how they believe Mark Bridger, on October 1st last year,

took away a happy, smiling young five-year-old April Jones. He

abducted her, murdered her and then concealed or destroyed her body.

Mark Bridger arrived at court amid heavy security. In the dock he

started listening to the prosecution case against him. They

say his crimes were sexually motivated. At his home he had a

computer full of indecent images of children. On the same computer he

stored pictures of local girls. Now I forensic examination of his home

found bloodstains in three different areas and the DNA from

that blood matches the DNA from April Jones.

Very difficult details being heard and April's family watching in the

courtroom? Yes, both Coral and Paul Jones arrived at court this morning

both wearing the pink ribbons which have become emblematic of the

search for their daughter over six months. They sat listening to the

evidence carefully. They will have been prepared for this moment but

they are having to listen to heartbreaking details. It was

spelled out to the jury that April cannot tell them what happened and

that Mark Bridger will not tell them what happened. He will say

during his defence that he did kill April Jones in a road accident and

put her body into his car but he has no recollection of what

happened afterwards. He denies the three charges of abduction, murder

and perverting the course of justice.

Thank you. The government is planning to make life tougher for

male prisoners in England and Wales by making them earn privileges such

as TV's in cells and access to gyms. Under the new regime inmates will

be banned from watching films with an 18 certificate and will have to

work a longer day. Our home affairs correspondent reports.

A typical cell at Pentonville Prison. Not exactly luxury but

there is a TV. You misbehave, you get the TV taken away, if you don't,

you have got it. If you work again there is a reward for it because

you are out, you can make your phone calls, keep in touch with the

family, it eases the stress level right down. But ministers believe

these perks are too easily obtainable. Standard privileges

allow inmates to have a TV in their cell, where their own clothes,

associate with other prisoners, have visits and earn money. There

are enhanced perks for good behaviour, better jobs, more visits,

more time out of the cell. But Break the Rules and it is basic

privileges including no TV and wearing a prison uniform. The new

regime will require inmates to show a positive good behaviour, not just

an absence of bad behaviour to learn more perks. Prison working

hours will be longer and new inmates will receive restricted

privileges for two weeks. In the past we have sent the wrong

messages. I want a regime which sends the right messages. Turn your

life around and there will be a good regime in prison. Prisoners

will not lose the Curragh privileges unless their behaviour

changes but if they are enjoying cable or satellite TV, currently

used in private prisons, they will lose that. Ministers say it is a

perk which cannot be defended. Visiting Pentonville prison they

argue changes will focus prison life on punishment but also

rehabilitation, preparing for the outside world. Critics are not so

sure. There is no evidence to show that a tough approach works. To be

more effective you have to focus on employment and skills training, on

making sure people have saved housing to go to and they have good

contact with their family. Privileges can also make it easier

to run a crowded prisons. Everyone will be watching the effect these

changes have. Two prisoners are on the run after

a gang of masked men ambushed a prison van in Greater Manchester.

It happened during the rush-hour traffic in Salford. Police are now

trying to find the men. A spokesman said there is currently no threat

to the local community. They are appealing for anyone with any

information to get in touch. Our correspondent Dave Guest is that

the scene of the ambush. What more do we know at this moment? In the

past few moments the prison van has been hitched on to a low loader and

taken away from the scene for further examination. We know around

9 o'clock this morning the ban was on its way from Merseyside to

Manchester Crown Court where it was ambushed by a number of masked men.

They smashed their way in by breaking the front windows. They

forced the guards to open the side door and a lap two prisoners out.

At the moment we do not have any details about the prisoners but

police say there is no immediate threat to the public. They have had

a higher prison -- presence throughout the morning. The police

are trying to track down these two as quickly as possible. Thank you.

She has been Queen for a period spanning four decades. Today she

abdicated, handing the Royal reins to her son. The news means Willem-

Alexander becomes the country's first king since the 19th century.

Thousands of people gathered outside the royal palace in

Amsterdam to greet the new King following the signing of the

abdication. Matthew Price is outside the palace with more.

Those crowds are still here. It has been a fantastic morning here it in

Dam Square, in front of the royal palace where the Queen a few hours

ago signed away her right to the throne. Now over to the right in

that church, the investiture ceremony is taking place of the new

king. It is not a coronation. He does not by tradition get crowned.

But this is perhaps the most pond filled and emotional part of the

day, in what has been a memorable day for the people of the

Netherlands. They gathered in front of the royal

palace. Dressed in the national colour. A-C of orange for the House

of Orange, from which the monarchy comes. Mosely. Apparently it is 200

years since the House of orange. Readers thought it was a historic

occasion and it was nice to come along. -- we just thought it was a

historic occasion. Hit his once-in- a-lifetime which is why I wanted to

be here today. What are those for? It is going to be very emotional

today. Is an informal country with an informal kind of monarchy. Her

Majesty went around the room, the Queen going to her guests, her son

and heir following in her footsteps. There was no pomp, little ceremony.

She took a pen and then signed Then briefly, now just Princess

Beatrix, she squeezed the hand of her new king. Outside, 33 years of

rule had passed seamlessly to the first king here in 123 years.

TRANSLATION: A few moments ago abdicated from the throne. I am

happy and grateful to present to you, your new king, King Willem-

The fact that everybody can get so close is a sign of how down-to-

earth the royal family here is, or at least once to appear to be.

Unlike the monarchy in Britain, for instance, if they don't have that

same untouchable feel about them. In fact, the new King says he wants

to be seen as a man of his people, he will not stand on ceremony.

Together, they sang the national anthem. Then, out came the next

generation. On foot, no horse and carriage for the Dutch, the royal

family went to church for the investiture. Tradition states they

do not crown their monarchs here, but they have their new king and he

has his kingdom. And that investiture ceremony is

taking place right now. It probably is the most regal feeling part of

all the events today. Certainly watching this here in Dam Square,

are one thing that struck me is how much more relaxed the royal family

here seems with their public, than perhaps the more distant royal

family of the United Kingdom. There are no horses and carriages, they

simply walked from the royal palace to the church. This it is quite

legal but the King says he just wants to be a man of the people. --

This is quite Regal. Thank you. With just two days of

campaigning to go for local elections in England and Wales, the

battle lines have been drawn in the most hotly contested areas. Our

political correspondent Robin Brant has been to Derbyshire.

In a quiet old lead mining village in the middle of Derbyshire, a

battle is going on. It has got one park and one flagpole, but the

Conservatives are fighting to keep Bonsall. Derbyshire was a surprise

gain. Since then the Tories have ruled. I think people have been

surprised how successful we have been able to be. We have avoided

frontline redundancies in the council and cat local services.

more than ever, local elections are defined by national issues, what to

keep and what to cut. The Tories in Derbyshire have cut �25 million of

the budget of over half a billion this year. County Hall in Matlock

is a must gain for Labour. They lost support in marginal areas four

years ago and that is in places where the next general election

will be decided. On a brownfield site by the motorway, I met

Derbyshire's Labour leader, currently in opposition. People

tend to focus on the national picture but they have seen at the

last four years, some dramatic changes to services they value and

it has brought home to people that you can make a protest vote on

national issues, but it sometimes has drastic local consequences.

day after we met, Ed Miliband was near that motorway site in

Chesterfield. His party is pushing hard in Liberal Democrat held areas

and the coalition is an issue in the crooked spire city.

certainly don't have an effect and we have got to recognise that. But

we are a party of local politicians. We are down-to-earth people living

and working in the community. Where you look in the community, you will

see Lib Dems working hard. smaller parties are part of the mix

as well in this election. In the Derbyshire town which any party

would love to represent, the Greens are standing. Transport is a key

issue for them. If there was better public transport and the council

invested more and encouraged private operators to provide buses

which ran when people want to go to work, more buses. A price worth

paying? Definitely and integrate it with the train. The unknown entity

in this election is the UK Independence Party. They are put in

at 1,700 candidates, the most ever in this election. What would they

do if they ran Derbyshire. Council tax as the most important part. We

would make sure we spent it in the right way. But there are many

issues. You are asking me to give you one particular one but there

are a lot of policies which we have that we will be implementing from

day one. David Cameron was here campaigning last week. The Prime

Minister knows that if the Conservatives are to have any

chance of staying in power both in the street and Downing Street, then

his local candidates have got to elections, but they raise big

questions for the parties back at Westminster. For the Tories, how far

austerity is draining their support in areas like Derbyshire and their

heartlands. For Labour, if they cannot win in somewhere like

Derbyshire, which has traditionally been Labour, is it goodbye for Ed

victory just a blip? The big question is the emerging threat from

UKIP, not so much how many seats they might win, but who they might

take their votes from and what sort of impact it might have at the next

election? Indeed, much made of the rhetoric mounting between the

parties, but also of the betting of 1700 candidates. Another day,

another scandal for UKIP, this time with one of their candidates down in

Somerset, pictured allegedly doing a Nazi salute. Now, he is the latest

in a series of UKIP candidates who appear to have been caught out on

social media expressing extreme views. He insists he is the victim

of a smear campaign. Nigel Farage insists there will be an

investigation, but I think the incident tells us a number of things

- if UKIP want to play in the big league, they are going to have to

expect an awful lot more scrutiny. And they like to present themselves

as political outsiders, not bound by the normal restrictions of the

established parties, but that comes with a risk, and the risk is that

they have much less control over who their candidates are and what they

say. Norman, thank you. You can also find

much more information about the one, our top story this lunchtime:

The jury in the trial of a former lifeguard accused of killing April

Jones in mid Wales last year he is how she was seen getting into his

car. And still to come, Sam Warburton is named captain of the

British and Irish Lions, he will lead a squad dominated by Welsh

players. On BBC London, longer running hours

on the Tube and more traffic free days on Oxford Street, some of the

recommendations from a new group set up to look at the future of the

area. And a full weather forecast in 15

Convictions for animal neglect and cruelty in England and Wales rose by

a third between 2011 and 2012 according to the RSPCA, which says

it is struggling to keep up with what it calls a growing cruelty

epidemic. Our correspondent is at an RSPCA centre in Worcestershire for

us, Jeremy. Yes, welcome to the Birmingham RSPCA centre, let me

introduce you to a dog whose story is typical of many of the stories

here. He was found about one month ago,

and emaciated in a garden along with another dog. He had a severe ear

infection. The staff here are in no doubt that he is the victim of

cruelty, but he is improving really well, although he is very much one

of the lucky ones. At this centre, every available

cannot is occupied, and many of these dogs are victims of cruelty or

abandonment. All of them need a new home, a new life. Daisy was born

with a genetic condition which means she need an operation on her eyes.

Treatment is expensive, and inspectors think she was abandoned

because of the cost. The category is also full. Each of the animals has

its own story, and caddie is sadly typical. When she came into us, she

was in very good condition, virtually no further, and it was

yellow, stained. Very thin, and a major injury to the eye. He is well

on the way in his rebuilt Asian, he is in good condition now, and

hopefully you will find a new home. Latest statistics show a 15% rise in

the number of people convicted for neglect and cruelty in England and

Wales. In 2011, 1341 people were found guilty by the courts. In 2012,

that number rose to 1552. But it is not necessarily mean there are more

acts of cruelty being committed. change in the law means that we can

intervene before an animal is actually suffering. In the past, it

have to suffer before we could do anything. Now we can give people

advice, and if they do not take it, we can intervene earlier. More

intervention means more animals rescued, but it also means more

animals needing a new home. Yes, great news for Mac, and the

ASCII that he was brought in with, because somebody is going to adopt

both of them. Pretty soon they will be leaving here and starting a new

life. Six men from the West Midlands have

pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist attack on an English

Defence League rally. Five of the group took a home-made bomb to the

EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in June last year. They

arrived, though, after it had ended. They were caught when there car was

stopped by police for not having insurance. June Kelly is outside

Woolwich Crown Court to explain more. Well, these men decided to

respond to verbal attacks on Muslims by the English Defence League with a

planned legal physical attack. Now, usually in terrorism cases, we say

the arrest came as a result of intelligence, but these arrests were

down to pure luck. Police on the M1 in South Yorkshire

have pulled over a vehicle in a random check. On the hard shoulder,

the driver and his passenger. What the police here do not realise is

that, by stopping this car, they are breaking up a terrorist cell. The

driver, Omar Mohammed Khan, had committed a motoring offence, but

within days he and his passenger, Jewel Uddin, were exposed as violent

extremists intent on murder. Today they were among six men from the

West Midlands who pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to terrorism

charges. And this was their intended target, a rally in Dewsbury by the

far right English Defence League. Five of the men have travelled here

from their homes in Birmingham, but by the time they got to Dewsbury,

the EDL demonstration was over. If they had arrived earlier, they could

have been carnage in its Yorkshire town. It would have gone ahead, and

we could have seen a series of massacres, lots of people could have

been hurt, injured, possibly killed as well. And there would be no

discrimination, young people, old people, black, white, Asian. Anybody

could have been affected. With the plot aborted, the men were stopped

in their car was impounded for not having insurance. According to

police, there were no grounds to search the car, so officers did not

look in the boot. It was two days later that the contents of the boot

were finally discovered. In one holdall, there were machetes, swords

and knives. The men were clearly planning part of their attack to be

at close quarters. In another bag there was sawn off shotguns and live

ammunition, as well as an improvised explosive device packed with nails

and ballbearings. There were also pipe bombs in the making. And

amongst their armoury their message, it was to the English

Defence League, David Cameron and, in that Diamond Jubilee summer, to

the Queen. They denounced as a none leaders, Jewel Uddin, was an

associate of a group of Birmingham men jailed last week over a suicide

bomb plot. In fact, he had been under surveillance and, just five

days before the EDL rally, he was observed going into this shop. What

the police surveillance team did not know was that he bought knives to

use in the attack. At that point, he was not considered to be a serious

threat. The information that we had at the time did not require or did

not determine that we should have been doing close as a valence on

him. I am really comfortable that, within both my own organisation and

other partner organisations, we did not fail to join the dots. After the

guilty pleas, the men are due to be sentenced in June.

Well, both the police and the security service MI5 say there was

no evidence that the man and as a valence was involved in attack

planning. As I say, they will be sentenced in June. It is often said

that the terrorists only have to get lucky once, and in this case the

luck was on the side of the police and MI5.

Now, anyone with a family member who has dementia will know how

distressing it is if they go missing with an agonising wait until they

are found. Police in Sussex have become the first force in Britain to

pay for GPS tracking devices to both help reduce that distress and cut

the cost of finding people when they go missing. Duncan Kennedy has more.

For three years, Bernard was taking care of his wife Jill, who has

dementia. But he has helped now in the form of a GPS tracking device

that has already helped save a life after she went missing in nearby

fields. The ground was full of mud and water, and she had got stuck in

the mud, and to be frank, without the GPS device, I would never have

known where to look for hope. dementia patients go missing, it is

usually the police were called to find them, but that is expensive, so

Sussex Police have become the first force in the Britain to buy the

tagging devices and issue them to the most vulnerable in the

community. It will be very cost-effective to police, reducing

anxiety to the family, and reducing the amount of police time spent on

the issue. It costs �27 per month to rent one of these. Compare that with

the cost of a police helicopter, which starts at about �800 per hour.

Savings for the police force will run into the thousands. The devices

are rooted to the Chichester Council call centre. The council says police

backing will help everyone involved. For us, it just helps cement the

whole system together and we can help each other. 800,000 people in

Britain have dementia. Now, with their forward-thinking initiative

involving tracking devices, the police have become part of their

care. Sport now, and Wales flanker Sam

Warburton has been named captain of the British and Irish Lions for that

of Hong Kong and Australia, one of the summer's most hotly anticipated

sporting events. The squad was unveiled at a news conference today,

and Dan Roan was there. Looking very Welsh dominated, then.

Absolutely, yes, they provide 15 of the squad, and it is no surprise,

they have been Six Nations champions for the last two seasons, they are

well-known by the Lions coach, Warren Gatland, who has also been

the Wales coach himself, and they also provide Sam Warburton, who

becomes the youngest ever Welsh Lions captain. England provides ten

players, the Irish nine, Scotland just three. It is largely as

expected, the squad, but there are a few surprises. Spare a thought for

Chris Robshaw, the England captain, who was being talked about as a

potential leader, but he misses out altogether, very tough for him to

take. Jonny Wilkinson is the main news today, because he ruled himself

out yesterday when he spoke to Warren Gatland, no place for him.

The big surprise inclusion is Matt Stevens, the England prop.

Ben Richards has joined us, and it this afternoon, and if you are

looking for April showers on the last day of the month, you will have

to look pretty closely, because it is going to stay fine and dry for

the rest of the afternoon with plenty of sunshine. Starting with

the satellite picture, the view from space, and you can see plenty of

cloud gathering in the Atlantic which is eventually destined to push

into north-western part of the country, but not just yet for most

of us. Clear skies in many areas, lots of sunshine. A little bit of

fair weather cloud could just be big enough to squeeze out a very light,

and certainly more cloud generally for Scotland and Northern Ireland

with a few showers here. But in the best of the sunshine further south,

14 or 15 is quite likely. Down to the south coast, up to 1617. Where

we have have our sunshine today, it is going to turn chilly again,

England and Wales could see the odd patch of fog, but mild in the north

and west where you have cloud, a strengthening breeze, outbreaks of

patchy rain. These are the countryside temperatures, rural

spots could get below freezing, so we could see a touch of frost here

to start the day. Further north, we start to see signs of a change, a

weather front coming in from the north-west, and that will bring

patchy rain, strengthening winds in the north, and that is going to

slice the country into tomorrow. This is how we start tomorrow

morning - to the north of the front, things brightening up, very windy

with a few showers, then a zone of damp weather through Northern

Ireland and a large part of Scotland. To the south of that, we

have the best of the sunshine to start Wednesday, blue skies for the

most part once early mist and fog have cleared. Yes, a chilly start

here, but once the sun gets to work, it will feel quite pleasant.

Through the day, many areas of central and southern England and

Wales hold onto the sunshine. The cloud works into northern England

and North Wales, a few bits and pieces of patchy rain. To the north

of that front, it brightens up, a few wintry showers in the far north.

Pretty windy in the far north with gales, but feeling warm in the

south. And it stays warm in the south as we go into Thursday, this

sunshine could lift temperatures to 17 or 18 degrees in places. But a

bit of a change in the north, cloud and rain, feeling much cooler, eight

or nine year. Big contrasts in the temperatures, further north it is up

to 18, and if you want a sneak peek at the bank holiday forecast, you

trial of a formalised guard accused of killing April Jones in mid Wales

last year 's here's how she was seen getting into his car. The two men on

the run after escaping from a prison van have been nail by police. The