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Good evening. Welcome to Wales Today live from Machynlleth.

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Tonight, police have arrested a 46- year-old man in connection with the

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abduction of April Jones. The five- year-old has been missing for

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almost 24 hours. Police say there were actively looking for the man

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and their priority remains to find April alive. We are still pursuing

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all lines of enquiry in the view that the Pru is still alive. We

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will continue to do so until we find her. Tonight, roads around the

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town are closed. Police are concentrating their search for

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April near the Dyfi Bridge. Hundreds of volunteers have spent

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the day combing the surrounding area, looking for any clue that may

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Good evening. Police have arrested a 46-year-old man in connection

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with the abduction of a five-year- old girl from Machynlleth. The

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police say that he is a local man and that they were actively looking

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for him. Police say that he has a vehicle very similar to the one

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described in the abduction of April Jones and that has been found and

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will be examined by police. The police are now concentrating their

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search for April by the Dyfi Bridge just outside Machynlleth. She was

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abducted at around 7pm last night from the street she lives on. It's

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thought she was walking home with a friend from a neighbour's house to

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her own home on the Bryn-y-gog estate in Machynlleth when she

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willingly got in to a grey van. Police have described that van as a

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Land Rover or Ford Connect type vehicle. Hundreds of people from

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the town and further afield have been gathering here at the leisure

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centre to do what they can to help. It is nearly 24 hours since April

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Jones went missing. At 5 o'clock this evening, police made this

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announcement. Within the last hour we have arrested a 46-year-old male

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from the Machynlleth area who has been detained at Aberystwyth police

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station. The arrest was made just outside Machynlleth and we hope

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this individual will assist us in locating April Jones who is still

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missing. We are still pursuing all lines of inquiry with the view that

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she is still alive and we will continue to do so until we find her.

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The 46-year-old man was arrested walking along the side of the road.

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Police were actively looking for him and he had a similar vehicle to

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the one eye witnesses had described seeing April Jones getting into.

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They have now located that vehicle and will examine it. Police are

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focusing their efforts on finding Throughout the day police and

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volunteers have continued to look for the five-year-old girl. Many of

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those lending a hand knew her personally. It is just shocking for

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the whole community. Everybody looks after each other here. April

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Jones was wearing a purple knee- length coat when she went missing.

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She was last seen playing on a bike with friends when she went missing.

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It is believed she was taken around 7 o'clock in the evening. Police

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were called less than half-an-hour later. They established she had got

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into a light coloured vehicle which then drove off. They now believe it

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could have been a Land Rover or a Ford Connect vehicle. The three

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girls came back to my house. My daughter wanted to come back in

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because she was cold. Beating the time of my house and their garage

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at the road, it happened. Her mother came to the door, she was

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hysterical. She said her daughter was missing. Part of the street

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where April Jones lives has been cordoned off. The only people who

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saw what happened were all other children was up getting information

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from them was a long and delicate process. Police say she was seen

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getting into the vehicle on the driver's side willingly. Within

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hours, hundreds had gathered at the town's leisure centre offering to

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help search for the missing girl. Those who know the girl have been

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struggling to come to terms with what happened. The school has been

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in touch with the family. Our thoughts are with them.

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community has pulled together today to search for April Jones. But the

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events of the last 24 hours have shocked everyone. The search for

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her goes on and police at renewing their appeal for any information.

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Police have been constant in their efforts this afternoon to ask for

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more and more information from the public. Anything, however

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insignificant you may think it may be. As you drive into the town, the

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first thing you see at huge banners over the streets but you would

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normally associate with an event such as a festival. Tonight, they

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say have you seen the girl. Shops have been closed and signs are in

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the windows. People are out searching. There is a real sense

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tonight that the whole community has come together, not justice

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committee but people have been gathering in the leisure centre

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from as far afield as Manchester to try to comb the gardens and fields

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in the area around. Machynlleth only has a population of 2,000. But

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they managed to field hundreds of volunteers through the night. The

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news that the girl was missing spread like wildfire through social

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networking sites. We were on Twitter and Facebook. I saw an

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alert from a gentleman who lives in Machynlleth. I then realised how

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serious it was. It is a basic human thing. We need to help each other.

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Everyone wants to help in this community. We are all very

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concerned. It is a complete shock. Things like this do not happen in

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Machynlleth. It is a small community with 2,000 people. We are

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a strong community as Today has shown. Many here have given up work

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to try to help search the area. Others have taken to putting up

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missing leaflets to try to spread the word. April Jones is one of my

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customers. She is everybody's child. I would ask everybody to be

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vigilant, look at the picture and see if you can see her. It does not

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matter Haw-Haw way you're, looked to see if you can find her.

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Everybody is networking and getting together. She has to be somewhere.

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That is a sense here that everybody wants to do their bit. Supplies are

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being drafted in for such teams. This garage told us they stayed

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open last night to help fuel the volunteers. We received a phone

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call from the Leisure Centre last night asking could open the garage

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because people wanted to go out? They were running low on fuel. I

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have been here since about 11 o'clock last night. The search

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continues along with the vigil tonight to pray for the safe return

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of April Jones. I am joined now by the local MP. It has been an

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extraordinary day. A dreadful day. It is a quiet and peaceful place.

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People have said something like this does not happen in places like

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this. It is difficult to imagine. It is the last possible thing you

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can imagine. It has happened and everyone has come together with

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huge concern. Hopefully she can be found alive and returned to her

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parents. It is difficult. Everyone has come together in the most

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magnificent way to help search overnight. People are concerned. It

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is almost 24 hours since she disappeared. The worry is there. I

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am worried and the people I am talking to or are worried and

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concerned. Police say they are still looking for her and hoping to

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find her a life. It is one of the most rural places in the country.

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It is an enormous challenge to the rescuers. It is a huge challenge.

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But having arrested a local man it seems to suggest police believe it

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is local. Maybe the concentration will be here now and it will help

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scents to locater. There are many open spaces and forests and

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potential Foxham want to disappear. How have the emergency services

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been co-ordinated was wrecked brilliant. They have reassured

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people. The police and the community have come together. They

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worked to reassure everybody and they are doing their best. None of

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us can control the tragedies that happen but the police and the local

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community have done everything you could hope from them. Thank you

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very much and we should make it clear that police tell us tonight

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they are still very much hoping that they find April Jones alive.

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We will have more later but first the rest of the day's news. The

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Welsh government has set out a draft budget to stimulate growth

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The first step to revealing how next year's budget will be spent.

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In art as in politics the devil is in the detail. Balancing the budget

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is as much of an art as a science. Today's draft we now have to be --

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will have to receive enough opposition party votes to succeed.

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But how much of the detail will have to be taken apart to be

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accepted? This is all about growth and jobs. We are midway through the

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current spending review period. We are responding to the continuing

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difficult economic context. There is an attempt to boost the economy

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For the Conservatives, the message has not changed. This is Groundhog

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Day for the health service facing a cash crisis. When we are seeing the

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health service going through potential changes, it is more

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important that the health budget is ring-fenced and protected. That is

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what the people want to see. From the look on the Plaid Cymru's

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leader's face, her party will need convincing. It is disappointing for

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us. There is very little the government can do but they could

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try to stimulate the economy in Wales. It may be down to the

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Liberal Democrats to strike a deal. For Welsh Liberal Democrats, we

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want to see more money going into our schools to help the poorest

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pupils and to that address the funding gap that exists between

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Welsh and English schools. bargaining can now start.

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The Shadow Welsh Secretary, Owen Smith, has told the Labour

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conference that devolution is delivering a confident country at

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ease with its place in the United Kingdom. Mr Smith said it had

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brought more local democracy and Wales was better off as part of the

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UK. Separation or independence is a minority interest. It is outweighed

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by the economic and emotional attachment in Britain for us to

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stick together. A record number of people in Wales

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are turning to food banks to survive. In the last year, food

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banks have fed 23,000 people here and one in four of those have an

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income. It comes as figures analysed by BBC Wales show that the

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average household income has dropped by �80 a month. She appears

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arrives home after a day's work with her shopping. She has not

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bought it at this supermarket for that she was given it by the

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Flintshire food bank was that she is one of a growing number of

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people in Wales who are earning but not earning enough to live on.

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can only find so many hours of work. She has been getting parcels since

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June. There is a network of banks across the country. What does it

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make you feel like Kazakh not even a second-class person. Something

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that is beneath a slide. It is just not right. This food bank has

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already fed hundreds of people. It was the first one in North Wales.

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There are now planning to open them across the region. Individuals and

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family arrived for many reasons. People come whose benefit has been

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stopped after assessment. When it needs to get assessed, it gets

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stopped. With such a demand and 23 banks now operating across Wales,

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wholesalers have been asked to help. The company has brought 40,000

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portions of food here. Up until a few years ago, this would go to the

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bin. Now, we do not send it to landfill. Because I have my own

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distribution network and bacon deliver its and it is a win win

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Derek's here now with the weather It looks like September was sunnier

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but cooler and wetter than average overall. However, parts of the

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southwest were drier. In Milford Haven, rainfall was below average.

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There is more rain and showers to come this week but I can promise

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some dry weather and sunshine as well and that goes for tomorrow. At

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the moment, there are two flood alerts in force. One in the Upper

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Dee Valley from Llanuwchllyn to Llangollen, including Corwen. The

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other around Swansea Bay and the Gower Peninsula. At Mumbles Head

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today, the wind reached force 8 with a gust of 54 mph. Tonight,

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further blustery showers. Heavy in places. Some dry weather too,

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especially towards the border. Breezy on the coast. Lighter winds

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inland. Lowest temperatures between 6 and 10 Celsius. Here's the

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picture for 8.00 in the morning. Mixed fortunes. Some places dry and

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bright with sunshine but not everywhere. There will be showers

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around. Heavy in places too with gusty winds. The air tomorrow will

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be unstable that means towering clouds and showers. Heavy downpours

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in places with hail and thunder but I can promise some dry weather and

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sunshine as well. Cooler than today. Top temperatures 12 to 15 Celsius

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with a westerly breeze. The wind gusty near the showers. Tomorrow

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night, further showers. Mainly in the south and west. Many inland

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areas becoming dry. The wind easing and chilly. Thursday a better day.

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Fewer showers. More in the way of dry weather and sunshine. Lighter

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winds as well. On Thursday night into Friday, though, there is a

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risk of heavy rain. The Met Office has issued a warning but there is

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some uncertainty as to how far north it will get. The good news.

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The weather should improve over the weekend. Becoming dry with sunshine.

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Ground frost, mist and fog patches as well.

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More on our top story now and the hunt for the missing five-year-old,

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April Jones. Let's return to Jamie He fought a six-year-old man has

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been arrested in connection with the abduction of April Jones. In

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the last hour or so the focus of police attention has been around

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the river. We will know more about that in the next hour or so. In the

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last few minutes police have been giving a press conference. Let us

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hear from them now. We are continuing our investigation to

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find April Jones. Within the last hour we have arrested a 46-year-old

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male from the Machynlleth area. He is being detained at Aberystwyth

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police station. We made the arrest just outside Machynlleth. We are

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hopeful this individual will assist us in locating April Jones who is

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still missing. Matthew Richards is on the Bryn-y-gog estate, the home

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Her house backs on to this street. She was playing here 24 hours ago

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when she was seen getting into the light coloured fan and being driven

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away. People I have spoken to Today have sent they are still hoping and

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praying for positive news. We have heard about the hundreds of people

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who have been at the Leisure Centre today trying to help the search.

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People have been at work and have not been able to help. As soon as

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they came home from work they turned up at the leisure centre to

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ask if they could do something and they would be willing to do their

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part. Posters have been up all around the area. People and still

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holding on to that hope. It is about an hour ago that members of

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the Brecon rescue team went into back gardens, checking bins and

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looking for any clues that could lead to the discovery of April

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Jones for the people are doing their best to stay positive. All of

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the young children we have seen have been in the company of adults

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holding their hands very tightly indeed. I am just here in that

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police are asking volunteers who are gathered behind me in great

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numbers to stand down. The search will take the form of heat-seeking

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helicopters were. There is one just coming to land. He is flying over

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now. That helicopter we understand is going to be using heat-seeking

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equipment as the search for April Jones continues this evening.

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When a child goes missing, it is not just the local police involved

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and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection unit known as

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CEOP was called in at the outset to help police in their hunt for April.

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Charlie Hedges, the CEOP manager for missing, abducted and kidnapped

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children has been liaising with Dyfed-Powys Police all night,

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helping them to mount the nationwide appeal for information.

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He joins me now from London. What has been the involvement of CEOP in

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This looks like and relatively well rehearsed operation, what happens

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when you get the call? It is about talking to the team and supporting

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what they are doing and offering options as we did through the night

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last night. Thank you very much for your time this evening. I just want

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to give you an idea of what is happening now. There is another

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helicopter. I do not know if our cameraman can turn around. It is

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coming in just behind. This helicopter is the second one in

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just a matter of moments to be co- ordinated in the search that is

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taking place this evening. I want to talk now to one of the people

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who co-ordinated the search here earlier this evening. What happened

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when you first turned up? I had a call from a friend from the local

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motor club. They were here at 10 o'clock last night. They took over

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locally, organising people to go to different areas put up we have a

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lot of local knowledge of the roads, forests and maps. People who were

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sent out to different eras from 10 o'clock last night until about 11

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o'clock this morning. From then we have helped the police are gathered

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teams of about 25 people to go out. There is a team leader from the

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mountaineering rescue team. We have been covering different sections of

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Machynlleth. They have just finished that search now. It is

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probably getting too dark. They were now be using the helicopters

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to take over from now on. This is an extraordinary gathering of

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people. This morning, when I was taking the names and expertise are,

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I had a couple from Manchester at around 9:30am. I had a gentleman

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from Abergavenny who was a qualified search-and-rescue person

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who had his dog. They joined the rescue teams. Local people from

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around 20 miles away have come down with sand ridges to keep the rest

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was fed and watered. I do not know how many people are here,

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thousands! I work for Powys County Council and my e-mails as if you

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wanted to volunteer to go along and help. That is what I have been

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doing since 9 o'clock this morning. Just to give you an idea of what

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happens now. These are volunteers from all over the country. They are

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being told to go home tonight. The rest of the search for April Jones

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over the course of this evening will involve these helicopters

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which have been arriving in the last few moments. They will be

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using heat-seeking equipment. The focus of the police investigation

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is now over at the river. We will have more on that during the course

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