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:00:21. > :00:25.Hello, very good afternoon. Police are questioning the mother of

:00:26. > :00:32.three-year-old Mikaeel Kular after the discovery of a body of a young

:00:33. > :00:35.boy in woodland in Fife. Mikaeel's disappearance in Edinburgh on

:00:36. > :00:39.Thursday sparked a massive police search. This afternoon a body was

:00:40. > :00:43.removed from woods at the rear of a bungalow in the town of Kirkcaldy.

:00:44. > :00:47.Our correspondent, Robert Hall is there. Robert. Tonight, Scotland's

:00:48. > :00:51.First Minister echoed the views of the community in Edinburgh,

:00:52. > :00:57.referring to a harrowing development in a story which touched people's

:00:58. > :01:01.heart. Late this afternoon an ambulance rolled down the road under

:01:02. > :01:07.the trees close to this residential street taking the child's body away.

:01:08. > :01:10.In rain soaked woodland, 20 miles from Mikaeel Kular's home in

:01:11. > :01:15.Edinburgh, the forensic teams move carefully around the discover I ril

:01:16. > :01:20.which dashed the hopes of so many. An investigation into the

:01:21. > :01:25.disappearance of Mikaeel Kular has been wide-ranging and fast moving.

:01:26. > :01:35.As a result of these inquiries, I can confirm that we've recovered the

:01:36. > :01:44.body of a young boy in Fife shortly before midnight. Mikaeel's face had

:01:45. > :01:47.become familiar to all of us, the smiling three-year-old who

:01:48. > :01:50.reportedly vanished from his bed. The search for him has ended on a

:01:51. > :01:56.quiet Kirkcaldy housing estate, close to a bungalow which, the BBC

:01:57. > :02:00.understands, belongs to an aunt. Today, the house, and its garden,

:02:01. > :02:04.containing a child's trampoline, have been sealed off. The police

:02:05. > :02:12.activity is concentrated in the wood beyond the garden fence. Mikaeel's

:02:13. > :02:17.mother, 33-year-old, Rosdeep Kular, has been held in police custody. The

:02:18. > :02:21.hunt for her son began, according to senior officers, after she told them

:02:22. > :02:25.he had gone missing. The Kular's live at Ferry Gait Crescent in the

:02:26. > :02:30.east of Edinburgh. Police were alerted at 7.15 am on Thursday

:02:31. > :02:32.morning. By 5.00pm that evening, emergency services, backed by

:02:33. > :02:38.hundreds of volunteers, had begun a search which would last two-days. As

:02:39. > :02:46.darkness fell the police operation moved across the Firth Firth of

:02:47. > :02:51.Forth to Kirkcaldy. At 1.10 am this morning they announced a body had

:02:52. > :02:56.been found. So, so sad. Poor wee boy. Throughout the day families in

:02:57. > :03:01.Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy have been laying flowers in Mikaeel's memory.

:03:02. > :03:04.When I heard the news, it was -- I was devastated that this is what

:03:05. > :03:09.happened. We wanted to come and pay our respects. Myself and it's

:03:10. > :03:15.absolutely heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. Forensic work in and

:03:16. > :03:22.around the house in Kirkcaldy is expected to continue for many hours

:03:23. > :03:27.yet. Rosdeep Kular was formally detained at midnight last night.

:03:28. > :03:32.Under Scottish law there has to be a maximum of 24-hours within which she

:03:33. > :03:35.is either charged or released. Police Scotland say they do hope to

:03:36. > :03:39.provide an update within that time frame. Kate. Robert, thank you. The

:03:40. > :03:43.Senior Conservatives have been paying tribute to Lord McAlpine, the

:03:44. > :03:48.former party treasurer who has died at the age of 71. His family said he

:03:49. > :03:51.passed away peacefully last night at his home in Italy. Lord McAlpine, a

:03:52. > :03:55.close adviser to Margaret Thatcher, was more recently wrongly implicated

:03:56. > :04:01.in a child abuse scandal. Alex Forsyth reports. A towering figure

:04:02. > :04:04.who made a huge contribution to public life. That's how Lord

:04:05. > :04:10.McAlpine has been described in tributes today. He was a powerful

:04:11. > :04:13.player in the Conservative Party as both Deputy Chairman and treasurer.

:04:14. > :04:18.His support of Margaret Thatcher was unwaivering. He was a loyal aide and

:04:19. > :04:24.friend. But former colleagues remember the man, as well as the

:04:25. > :04:29.politician. He was almost renaissance man. He'd done many

:04:30. > :04:37.things and been good at pretty well all of them, industry, commerce, the

:04:38. > :04:44.arts, politics. He was trustworthy. He was funny. Puckish almost in his

:04:45. > :04:47.manner. He made many good friends. Lord McAlpine's longstanding support

:04:48. > :04:53.for the Conservative Party was briefly broken when he backed the

:04:54. > :04:56.eurosceptic referendum group in the 1997 general election. He soon

:04:57. > :05:01.returned to the fold. Over the years, his fundraising expertise

:05:02. > :05:06.raised millions for the party and helped bank roll three successful

:05:07. > :05:11.general elections. In 2012 he was wrongly implicated by the BBC's

:05:12. > :05:16.Newsnight programme in child sex abuse allegations for which he

:05:17. > :05:28.received an apology and substantial damages. Lord McAlpine was known as

:05:29. > :05:34.a cull toured man. A cultured man. Lord McAlpine who has died at the

:05:35. > :05:38.age of 71. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, says the party's

:05:39. > :05:41.former Chief Executive, Lord Rennard, should not rejoin the

:05:42. > :05:44.party's group in the House of Lords unless he apologises to women who

:05:45. > :05:49.claim they've been sexually harassed. An internal investigation

:05:50. > :05:53.found the claims were "broadly credible", but could not be proved

:05:54. > :05:59.beyond doubt. Lord Rennard has always denied the allegations. Two

:06:00. > :06:02.Britons are now known to be among the 21 people killed in a suicide

:06:03. > :06:06.bombing in Afghanistan. One of those who died was a Labour Party

:06:07. > :06:12.candidate in the forthcoming European elections. The the bomb was

:06:13. > :06:16.detonated outside a busy restaurant frequented by Westerners in the

:06:17. > :06:19.capital city Kabul. From Kabul, Carolyn Wyatt sent this report. The

:06:20. > :06:23.wreckage of what had been a special place. For Westerners and wealthier

:06:24. > :06:28.Afghan alikes. One of the rare restaurants in this city where they

:06:29. > :06:33.could mix and relax. All that shattered in a heartbeat by a

:06:34. > :06:37.suicide bomber and two attackers armed with AK-47 s they went through

:06:38. > :06:41.the restaurant, shooting dead families and colleagues out for

:06:42. > :06:45.Friday night dinner. Amongst the dead, four of the UN staff here, as

:06:46. > :06:48.well as the Head of the International Monetary Fund in

:06:49. > :06:52.Afghanistan. Today, it was confirmed that one of the British victims was

:06:53. > :06:56.a Labour candidate for the European elections called Del Singh. Today,

:06:57. > :07:01.his friends paid tribute to him and expressed their shock. The other

:07:02. > :07:05.Britton skilled was former soldier, Simon Chase, a father of two from

:07:06. > :07:09.Liverpool. He had settled with his fiancee in Northern Ireland where he

:07:10. > :07:12.worked as a doorman in a bar. The staff that worked with him commented

:07:13. > :07:16.that he was a true gentleman, great friend and had a nature that

:07:17. > :07:25.couldn't see the wrong in anyone. They are obviously very upset today.

:07:26. > :07:29.Security here was seen as tight. The suicide bomber bypassed all of that

:07:30. > :07:35.by simply blowing up the entrance, with it the sense that anywhere in

:07:36. > :07:39.Kabul could be seen as secure. Today, the clearing up began in

:07:40. > :07:45.earnest, neighbours of the restaurant are still in shock. This

:07:46. > :07:50.woman lives in the house opposite. She told me what happened. All of a

:07:51. > :07:56.sudden the blast happened. I screamed. We jumped. There was

:07:57. > :08:03.machine gun, heavy firing. The I was shaking. I hide myself behind the

:08:04. > :08:09.curtain to stay safe, in a safe place. A lot of people has passed

:08:10. > :08:13.away and got killed. I can see the blood outside. So that's sad. It

:08:14. > :08:18.makes me very upset. Hopefully, I'm going to get over it. But it's not

:08:19. > :08:22.eatsy. I knew the owner of the restaurant, I knew the guards. This

:08:23. > :08:26.year, Afghanistan faces elections, then the withdrawal of NATO combat

:08:27. > :08:35.troops. This attack, in the heart of the capital, has again shattered

:08:36. > :08:39.hopes of peace. Now in tennis, Andy Murray has reached the fourth round

:08:40. > :08:43.of the Australian Open after beating Feliciano Lopez in straight-sets. He

:08:44. > :08:47.described the win as a "big step up" as one of the first serious tests to

:08:48. > :08:54.his form after undergoing back surgery. Patrick Geary has more. It

:08:55. > :08:57.might not look it but by Melbourne's recent standards this was a close

:08:58. > :09:01.day, much more pleasant conditions to watch and play tennis. Andy

:09:02. > :09:05.Murray will certainly have felt more at home. It took him a while to

:09:06. > :09:10.calibrate his radar against Feliciano Lopez. The Spaniard could

:09:11. > :09:14.duck out of that, but there was no avoiding Murray in full flow. When

:09:15. > :09:18.if matters he has an uncanny ability to be in the right praise place at

:09:19. > :09:23.the right time. It earned him the first set in the tie-break. The

:09:24. > :09:28.world number 27 was being out witted by the second set he seemed to know

:09:29. > :09:32.his fate. Lopez's serve went again in the first game of the third. The

:09:33. > :09:37.Gulfing class between the players growing as the match went on. By the

:09:38. > :09:43.end Lopez had no answer to Murray, who is yet to lose a set in three

:09:44. > :09:48.matches. Today was a big step up for me. It's the best win I've had since

:09:49. > :09:54.my surgery. I'm happy with that. In the interview room Murray is talking

:09:55. > :09:58.down his chances of winning this Grand Slam. On the court he is

:09:59. > :10:02.suggesting otherwise. There's more throughout the evening on the BBC

:10:03. > :10:05.News Channel, as ever, we are back with the late news at 10.00pm. Now

:10:06. > :10:07.on BBC One, it's time