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Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering the | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
schoolgirl, April Jones, in Powys last year. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
The five-year-old went missing in October. She had been playing | :00:12. | :00:22. | |
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outside her home with friends. Her body has never been found. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
We'll have reports from both Mold and Machynlleth, April's home town. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Michael Adebowale appears in court for the first time charged with | :00:38. | :00:48. | |
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murdering Drummer Lee Rigby in London last week. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
And the Government here is being taken to court because the European | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Commission believes some migrants are being discriminated against when | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
try to claim benefits. A 22-year-old man is being | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
questioned on suspicion of the murder of the missing teenager | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Georgia Williams. And not so much the darling buds, | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
why this spring has been the coldest in more than 50 years. | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
Later on BBC London: Police launch a murder investigation following the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
death of an elderly woman in a flat fire in Deptford. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
And open water swimming, we look at the health risks associated with its | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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growing popularity. In the past hour, Mark Bridger has | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
been found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
Jones. She had disappeared from her home in Machynlleth last October and | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
despite a massive search by people in the town her body has never been | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
found. The jury at Mold Crown Court took less than a day to decide it | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
didn't believe Bridger's story that he had accidentally run over her in | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
his car, but couldn't remember what he had done with her body. Let's | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 134 seconds | :02:27. | :04:41. | |
cross to Mold and our Wales his car. Bridger told officers he | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
had been in an accident, claiming he had run over April before panicking. | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
He couldn't remember what he had done with the body. But the | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
investigation soon unravelled his story. The police search of Mark | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
bridger's home uncovered his fascination for local schoolgirls. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
He stored photos of them on his computer alongside indecent | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
magistrates of children he downloaded from the internet. And | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
photos of child murder victims, such as holyS and Jessica Chapman. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Forensic teams found traces of blood which matched April's DNA and | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
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alongside the bone fragments in the fire Mark Bridger's knife. The | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
police continued to look for her body. It became the largest search | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
in UK force history, but only one person knows where her remains are | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
hidel. The court heard how Mark Bridger suggested places the police | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
could look, the golf course, the picnic area. They believe he is | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
still trying to maintain control over the investigation. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Mark Bridger, I would describe as an evil and manipulative individual. | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
Clearly someone who likes to be in control. Our only hope from our | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
prospective and the family's prospective is he will tell us what | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
he did with April Jones. April's parents have endured months | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
of speculation and uncertainty. Reliving their daughter's | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
disappearance each day in court. Today's verdicts may bring some | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
comfort, but they don't answer the questions that pains them the most - | :06:22. | :06:32. | |
April Jones is still missing and no Well, April's disappearance is a | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
story that struck a dhord -- chord with parents and families. Within | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
minutes of her going missing, hundreds went to the streets of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Machynlleth to find her. Soon they were supplemented by officers from | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
45 different forces across the UK. Jon Brain reports on the search for | :06:50. | :07:00. | |
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April Jones. A vulnerable member of their | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
community was missing and they weren't going to rest until they | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
found her. They have been out searching until | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
3am and they had gone home to bed for a couple of hours and they have | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
come back for daylight, ready to go again. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Every morning, they came to offer their help. Virtually a whole town | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
with just one aim - finding a little girl. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
I have got two people who don't have transport so I will take them with | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
Even when the police suggested it was time to leave the search to the | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
experts, they insisted on carrying on. The police are going to tell the | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
locals to stop. I don't think they will stop anyway because it is a | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
close-knit community. We just need to find her. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Even the efforts of the volunteers were dwarfed by those of the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
professionals. This was the biggest operation of its kind ever staged in | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
the UK. Every branch of the rescue services were involved and police | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
officers from nearly every part of the country. This morning's task, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
open area search. In fact we had difficulty in trying | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
to get rid of officers to have rest. We had officers who wouldn't take, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
who didn't want to go back home to their home forces and wanted to take | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
leave and stay to volunteer to search. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Once Mark Bridger was charged with murder, the search was April turned | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
into a search for her body. But many in the town still refused to believe | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
she couldn't be found alive. This child has not been found. We | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
still have hope. I have been saying this from the very beginning. We | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
still have hope. In the end, hope was not enough. But | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the people of this town can at least take solace in knowing they see | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
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couldn't have done anymore to bring Well, the crown prosecution released | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
a statement welcoming today's verdicts. They describe Mark Bridger | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
as a violent, cold-hearted murderer and a calculated liar. He now has to | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
wait until 2pm when he will be called back into the courtroom for | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the process of sentencing to begin. We understand the judge is expecting | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
to take sometime before he gives Mark Bridger his sentence. However, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
he has already been warned that the only sentence in this case is a life | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
term. Thank you very much indeed. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Well, we will have more reaction from April Jones's hometown of | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
Machynlleth later in the programme. There was tight security at | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Westminster Magistrates' Court this morning as Michael Adebowal appeared | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
in court for the first time charged with murdering Drummer Lee Rigby. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
The 22-year-old is accused of possessing a firearm. Well, | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
throughout the hearing he was allowed to stay seated because of | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
the injuries he received when police shot him during his arrest last | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
week. Let's cross to June Kelly who was at the hearing. June. Well, | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command had to | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
wait a while to get access to Michael Adebowal. Once they did the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
charges came quickly indeed. Just over 36 hoursz after he was released | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
from hospital, he was appearing here Eight days on from events at | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Woolwich, one of the two main suspects was brought to Westminster | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
Magistrates' Court in Central London. The security was intense. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
22-year-old Michael Adebowal was released from hospital on Tuesday | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
and the charges were announced late last night. He appeared in the dock | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
in handcuffs. He was wearing a sweat shirt and loose white trousers. He | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
spoke only to confirm his name, age and address. He is charged with the | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday. He faces a second count | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
of possessing a 9. 4 millimetre revolver with intent to cause people | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
to believe that violence would be used against them. A second suspect, | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
in the case, Michael Adebolajo is still in hospital and hasn't been | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
questioned. After Lee Rigby's killing, both suspects were shot at | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
the scene by police. At today's brief hearing, it was announced that | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
Michael Adebowal will be prosecuted under terrorism legislation. He is | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
due back in court on Monday. Then he will appear before a judge at the | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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was heavily bandaged, he was clearly having difficulty walking because of | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
the leg injuries he sustained. Now, after the hearing he was taken to | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Belmarsh top security jail in South-East London which is just a | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
short distance from Woolwich Barracks. Kate. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
June, thank you. Every p year millions of Britons go | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
to Spain on holiday. If they are ill, they are entitled to free | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
healthcare. At least that's the idea, but increasing numbers of | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Britons who fall ill say they have been told they will have to pay for | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
treatment even though all EU citizens have the right to receive | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
State medical care in member countries if they produce a European | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
health insurances card. Matthew Price reports. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Bring on the sunshine. Millions of Brits fly in and hit Spain's beaches | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
every year. A short hop from home, with all the comforts of home. Or so | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
thought Ray and Rosemary Burton when they were on holiday here. They | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
headed to this public hospital when he became seriously ill. They | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
assumed they could use Ray's European health card called. It is | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
supposed to give free access to emergency care in Spain. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
We presented our cards, but we were asked for credit cards and then | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
later, asked for insurance details and they were quite firm in not | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
wanting the card. It is not just them. One woman went | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
to hospital in Ibiza needing surgery for a twisted bowel. The card wasn't | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
accepted and the hospital is trying to charge her �21,000. In Alicante, | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
a British couple was charged �2500 was treating a head injury. Their | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
daughter had to fly back to Spain to get a refund which she did get. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Millions of British people come to this part of Spain every year on | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
their holidays and the British Government says for most of them, if | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
they have to use the health cards, the system does work, but there is | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
concern br when it does not work and not just for British people, but for | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
holiday-makers from across Europe. That's why Spain's health officials | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
have been told by the European Commission to fix the system. The | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Spanish Health Ministry says it has been working properly, but it will | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
co-operate. Far, far away from the sunshine, Brussels today wasn't just | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
pointing the finger at Spain. It is the European Commission's job to | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
police how the EU's single market is working. Today, it also said the UK | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
is breaking the law, failing to pay EU migrants living in Britain the | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
benefits they are due. The Government says its benefit tests | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
are fair and necessary, but the commission is taking a the UK to | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
court over this. Well, let's be clear. We want the UK | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
to apply the EU rules against benefit tour tourism. We are not | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
talking about letting people get access to UK benefits from the day | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
they get off the ferry or get off the plane, it is people who are | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
resident in the UK. So today, Britain divided on the EU? | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
Happy with the action against Spain, less so perhaps about that against | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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the UK. Rules here mean some people who have been working and paying tax | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
in the UK have been prevented from claiming Ben fits like maternity pay | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
and jobseeker's allowance. This morning the commission did say the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
UK was in contravention of European law and is being taken to court. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith to | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
explain why and the Government's response. Well, the Government's | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
response has been see you in court. We are not going to back down over | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
our benefits system and we seem to be heading for a stand-up political | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
and judicial fistfight with the European Commission and the British | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Government with the European Commission saying you are | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
discriminating against EU nationals claiming benefits in Britain, by | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
imposing tougher requirements on them than you do on your own | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
citizens. The British Government saying we think it's far too easy | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
for EU nationals to claim benefits here and by the way, we are going to | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
introduce additional curbs to limit benefits they can get. The | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
Commission say, you do not have a problem with benefit tourism. The | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
British Government say benefit tourism is costing the British | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
taxpayer dear. It is a significant row. But you sense privately | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Ministers might be going this isn't a bad row to have because in the | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
current debate over Europe when David Cameron is under huge pressure | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
to take a tougher line on Europe, here is an issue he can be seen to | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
be standing up to Europe, to resisting Europe trying to grab more | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
powers. Although this is a real row, you rather suspect Iain Duncan Smith | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
is more than happy to cross the road, jump a fence, crawl through a | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
hedge to have this particular row. Thank you. | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Our main story: In the past hour Mark Bridger has been found guilty | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones. Still to | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
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come: Henry VIII's Mary Rose has a How the live broadcast of the | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Queen's Coronation ushered in the television age. And we meet the | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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Londoners who have run away to the VII's Mary Rose sank. Now 30 years | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
after it was raised from the seabed, it has a new home in a purpose-built | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
�35 million museum which opens today. Visitors will be able to see | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
the Hull and some of the 19,000 artefacts. Let's cross to Portsmouth | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
and our correspondent who is there. This is the Mary Rose, she's never | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
been seen before. She's clearly visible deck by deck. The remains of | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
the Hull that you are looking at now are only part of the story in this | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
new museum. The team have effectively reconstructed the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
missing second half of the ship. They've put inside a lot of the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
items, in fact thousands, that were found in and around the hull. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
They're back here in positions they would have occupied on the day she | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
sank. Ringing out across the Solent for | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
the first time in almost 460 years, the ship's bell of the flagship | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
sounding over the spot where 400 men lost their lives. Let us remember | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
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before God the men of Mary Rose. On 11th October 1982 the Mary Rose | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
had come home. There is the wreck... She had been hid nonthe mud and silt | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
less than a mile from the docks where she was built. But the public | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
who flocked to see her had to peer through water and chemicals, a | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
radical plan was needed. For the past three years Mary Rose has been | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
hidden from view as her new home grew around her. It's like walking | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
through, down this line of a immediate Eval ship from that time, | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
looking at how it was, how the sailors lived at that very time. | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
It's almost unbelievable. The story told here is not just of a ship, but | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
of the MEP who served on her. Many of -- men who served on her. Many | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
finds can be linked to kru members. Their remains have helped scientists | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
reconstruct their physical appearance. Among the first visitors | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
the archaeologist who led the original recovery. I think this is a | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
duty to the crew. It's their monument. But also I think we have a | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
duty to share it with the public. Once she was a dead ship, an | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
incomplete jigsaw. But no more. The Mary Rose has been reborn. | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
In a way this is a deck story and there are big clues. These chests | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
were full of their original contents, for example and those help | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
lead us to individual members of the crew. The skills, the ways that they | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
lived. But among the finds was one which has nothing to do with human | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
beings, but one final detail and that is this, the remains of the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
ship's dog. Absolutely extraordinary. Thank you | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
very much. You can see a special programme on the Mary Rose on the | :20:47. | :20:57. | |
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A man arrested over the disappearance of a teenager is now | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
being questioned on suspicion of her murder. Georgia Williams, 17, and | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
from Wellington in Shropshire, was last seen in the town on Sunday. The | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
22-year-old man was arrested in Glasgow on Wednesday. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Her disappearance was completely out of character. Georgia Williams, a | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
former head girl and daughter of a police officer, hasn't been seen | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
since Sunday evening. Her final tweet suggests she was tired but | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
there were no other clues as to where or why she had gone. A man was | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
arrested yesterday. A silver Toyota van was recovered from this car | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
park. Detectives have tracked the journey from Wellington, via North | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
Wales and Cumbria, to a final destination. They're still appealing | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
for information from anyone who may have seen it on its journey. The | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
police search has been focussed on a house in Wellington, where | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
neighbours say a Jamie Reynolds lives with his mother. Detectives | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
brought the man back here, buff the nature of his questioning bsh -- but | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
the nature of his questioning has changed. He was detained on | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
suspicion of kidnap, now it's the suspicion of murder. Her former | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
school says it's devastated and described Georgia as someone who was | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
liked by everyone. But it's clear now that everybody fears the worst. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
There's more evidence today that the housing market could be gathering | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
momentum. A report from the nationwide shows that sales saw | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
their strongest growth in 18 months with prices now 1. 1% higher than a | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
year ago. Our chief economics correspondent is with me. Something | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
positive then? Yes, the Nationwide say there is a sense of momentum | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
because the economy is growing and the Bank of England has launched a | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
scheme to get more money into the market which has helped bring down | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
mortgage rates. Let's look at the figures. They're saying the average | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
house price in May was nearly �168,000 and over the last year to | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
May there was an increase of 1. 1%, the biggest in 18 months. But let's | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
not forget that the average house price at the peak of the boom back | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
in October 2007 was a lot higher, just over �186,000, some way to get | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
back to that. We shouldn't forget that there are regional variations | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
and different figures for April, show as where London prices are | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
growing, in one region of England, the north-east, they're falling by | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
nearly 6%. Big disparities, depending on where you are looking | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
around the UK. If you have been shivering in the cold this month you | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
won't be surprised to know this spring was officially the coldest in | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
more than half a century. Over the past four weeks we have had heavy | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
rain, high winds and as many of you will know, even frost and snow. One | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
of the areas that has seen some of the worst is Herefordshire and our | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
correspondent is in Ross-on-Wye with more. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
As you can see short sleeves here today but not because we are | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
enjoying a mini heatwave but rather because we are in one of these giant | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
polytunnels which if you are growing fresh fruit like strawberries is one | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
of the only ways because the British climate is increasingly hostile. | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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It's just served up the cold coldest spring for 50 years. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Heavy rain through Scotland and Northern Ireland... The charts are | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
not looking encouraging for this week. This evening good luck, the | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
weather is truly awful. Spring 2013, started out bad, and didn't get much | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
better. Even in mid-May there was snow on the ground in Shropshire, | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
and the latest med office numbers make it official -- met office | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
numbers make it official it's been the coldest spring for more than 50 | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
years. Normally milder weather comes in from the Atlantic, but we have | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
seen is persistent colder weather coming in from the continent. It's | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
been a blocked Pat earn, that's where the chilli weather has been | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
coming through. In April we had a tech tures of 2 Celsius Celsius we | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
don't often get in mid-winter. It shows how cold this spring has been. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
If you are in the soft fruit business it's hard to live with the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
British climate. The only choice is to use polytunnels to shift things | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
along. Outside it feels like late winter. In here, it feels like June. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
The growing season is more than two weeks late. It's a real challenge | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
and it's so difficult to know whether this is global warming or | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
cooling or wetting or something. Or, whether it's just a seasonal change. | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
We had last year a late spring, but the year before we actually picked | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
17 days earlier than we have picked this year. So this spring has hardly | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
been one for the scrapbooks. More a case of covering up, keeping dry and | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
hoping play can resume. Oh, and keep the wellies handy, there's still | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
plenty of rain around. The forecast is for an insettled June. The good | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
news is they're managing to manage all this horrible weather. We are | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
even getting a taste of summer time. But what everybody could do with is | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
a lot more sunshine. Thank you. We will have the weather | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
forecast shortly. Now let's return to our main story and the news that | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Mark Bridger has been found guilty of the abduction and murder of | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
five-year-old April Jones. She disa I peered -- disappeared last | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
October. And her body has never been found. Our UK affairs correspondent | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
is there for us. What happened in October continues | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
to cast a shadow over this town. People are still upset and people | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
have had to relive the events of October as this trial has played | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
out. They've had to see it in newspapers and watch it on | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
television. People have not wanted to forget. They've wanted to show | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
that they remember April and outside pubs and shops you will see time and | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
time again pink ribbons, that's been a symbol of that campaign. At one | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
stage it was a campaign to find April as volunteers gathered in the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
streets and headed in all directions out of Machynlleth. Lately, it's | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
become a campaign for justice. Now Mark Bridger has been convicted. In | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the aftermath of that trial there will be questions for the police. | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
Why did it take so long to identify Mark Bridger as a person of | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
interest? And why did it take so long to bring him to custody? The | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
police say they did all that they could and that huge search was | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
taking place and when you talk to people in this community they're | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
very clear, they believe Mark Bridger is the man responsible and | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
the man responsible alone for what happened to April Jones. Of course, | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
some of those details still are not known. The true extent of his crime | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
has not been revealed in court. He has refused to say how April died, | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
claiming he cannot remember. There are people gathering in Machynlleth | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
today for a funeral and for some it's brought into sharp focus | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
they've never been able to bury April's body. Thank you. | :28:31. | :28:41. | |
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does look as though it's actually the coldest in around 50 years. | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
That's come in from The Met Office April hour ago. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
It's March that made it record-breaking in the top five, | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
because it was so exceptionally cold. | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
In terms of the weather for this afternoon, it's not a heatwave. | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
Bright spells and showers and some of the showers could be on the heavy | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
side. This is the satellite picture. In the last 24 hours we have been | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
seeing this persistent pattern from the east. It's like our spring. This | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
is what's happening this afternoon. Cloudier on that north sea coast but | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
out towards the south-west high pressure is coming and that should | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
be in time for the weekend. For the time being concentrating on the | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
weather for this afternoon, it's a mixture of bright spells and | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
showers. Some of the showers could be well heavy. Here is an example, | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
across the south-west here. Probably we are talking about Surrey, Kent | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
and Sussex, these will be the heaviest downpours today. They will | :29:49. | :29:55. | |
extend across the Midlands, too. The North Sea coast misty in places. | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
Cloudy across Scotland. Not necessarily the Western Isles. | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
Across Northern Ireland where we have the bright weather, much as | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
yesterday. This evening, the showers that will have brewed across the | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
south will fade. But it's still going to be misty and murky and damp | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
along the North Sea coasts. In the north-west there is a change going | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
on in the air. We are going to see more cloud drifting in to Northern | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Ireland and western parts of Scotland. Damp weather, too. As far | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
as tomorrow goes, it's a different story in the north-west, so more | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
cloud. Not so sunny in Belfast. The rest of the country brighter and | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
also brighter on most of the North Sea coasts, although just off East | :30:36. | :30:42. | |
Anglia there might be mist around. That's good news for the cricket at | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
Lords starting in the morning. Should be bright here. And we have | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
the horse racing at Epsom, as well, that's Friday and Saturday. The | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
weather is looking fine, as well. Plenty of bright weather. For most | :30:54. | :31:02. | |
of us, given we get a fair bit of sunshine, it will feel quite warm. I | :31:02. | :31:09. | |
think in summary, bright and warm for many of us but not slightly for | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
everyone everyone | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
Thank you very much. Our main story: In the past hour, Mark Bridger has | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
been found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April | :31:19. | :31:25. |