:00:06. > :00:10.Police investigating the abduction of a five-year old girl in Mid-
:00:10. > :00:12.Wales say there were no signs of a struggle.
:00:13. > :00:19.Friends who were playing with April Jones yesterday evening say they
:00:19. > :00:25.saw her climb into the driver's side of a van.
:00:25. > :00:29.Clearly, it would be every family's nightmare to suffer a child going
:00:29. > :00:32.missing in the circumstances. The teacher who ran away with his
:00:32. > :00:34.pupil Megan Stammers tells a court in France that he's willing to
:00:34. > :00:39.return to the UK. Six people are arrested after 37
:00:39. > :00:42.people are killed in a boat collision in Hong Kong.
:00:42. > :00:51.The Ryder cup is back on European soil as it arrives at Heathrow with
:00:51. > :00:56.The British inventor who is able to run a car on liquid air - his ideas
:00:56. > :00:59.could transform the power industry. Later on BBC London:
:00:59. > :01:02.The Surrey head teacher of the two children thought to have been
:01:02. > :01:04.killed by their father speaks of the shock of their deaths.
:01:04. > :01:14.And Hammersmith and Fulham's radical plans to remove tenants
:01:14. > :01:27.
:01:27. > :01:30.from council houses after five Good a friend and welcome to the
:01:30. > :01:32.BBC News At One. Police investigating the abduction
:01:32. > :01:35.of a five-year-old girl in Mid- Wales have been given more
:01:35. > :01:40.information about the moment that she disappeared last night. They
:01:40. > :01:45.say that April Jones was last seen getting into the driver's side of a
:01:45. > :01:48.grave than at about 7pm. She had been playing with friends near her
:01:48. > :01:54.home in Machynlleth. Hundreds of volunteers have spent the night
:01:54. > :01:58.searching the area for her. April Jones, seen here in the
:01:58. > :02:02.purple coat she was wearing when she went out to play yesterday
:02:02. > :02:07.evening. But the five-year-old never came home. Where she is now
:02:07. > :02:12.remains a mystery. The children she was with say they
:02:12. > :02:16.saw her get into a vehicle on the road outside her home.
:02:16. > :02:22.They describe it as a small van, small in the front and large at the
:02:22. > :02:29.back. That could be interpreted as something similar to a Ford Connect
:02:29. > :02:36.van, something like a Land Rover. Also, April got into the driver's
:02:36. > :02:40.side. It may be that she got in with the driver. Of course, that
:02:40. > :02:45.could mean it is a left-hand-drive vehicle. Clearly, it would be every
:02:45. > :02:48.family's nightmare to suffer a child going missing in these
:02:48. > :02:55.circumstances. We have got dedicated, trained officers
:02:55. > :02:59.providing support to April. We have staff with the family from the
:02:59. > :03:03.outset. This morning, the police resumed
:03:03. > :03:07.the search of the town in the countryside. Once again, the local
:03:07. > :03:11.community has rallied to their support.
:03:11. > :03:15.Have you got a car? Hundreds have volunteered to take
:03:15. > :03:19.part in the searches. They are being co-ordinated at the local
:03:19. > :03:22.leisure centre. Many were also here last night.
:03:22. > :03:26.Others heard the news this morning and have travelled from up to 60
:03:26. > :03:31.miles away to help. Nothing has ever happened like this
:03:31. > :03:38.before here. We are a bit complacent. We think nothing here
:03:38. > :03:41.will happen. Tragically, it has. We were on Twitter and Facebook,
:03:41. > :03:47.and I particularly sore and a lead from a gentleman who lives in
:03:47. > :03:55.Machynlleth. -- are particularly sore and alert.
:03:55. > :03:59.With no sign of -- April, panic is growing. The next few hours could
:03:59. > :04:03.prove critical. We will come back to that story
:04:03. > :04:06.later. Lawyers for the radical Muslim
:04:06. > :04:09.cleric Abu Hamza are in court arguing he needs to have his
:04:09. > :04:13.medical condition examined before he can be extradited to the US to
:04:13. > :04:17.face charges of terrorism. Last week, the European Court of Human
:04:17. > :04:21.Rights rejected an appeal from his lawyers. Our home affairs
:04:21. > :04:27.correspondent is at the High Court. Firstly, this argument about his
:04:27. > :04:31.health. Yes, Abu Hamza has a number of his abilities. He has lost both
:04:31. > :04:37.his arms and is blind in one eye. What is lawyers arguing is that
:04:37. > :04:42.because, they say, his medal -- medical condition has deteriorated,
:04:42. > :04:46.he should have a scan. They say it clear that the medical opinion is
:04:46. > :04:52.that a scan is necessary, and if it were to show he was unfit to plead,
:04:52. > :04:59.it would be a wrong thing to extradite him. They say his health
:04:59. > :05:05.has worsened. They claim sleep deprivation, and what they say is
:05:05. > :05:09.the unrelenting, harsh environment in which he is being held.
:05:09. > :05:14.This legal action has been going on for years. Is this the last ditch
:05:14. > :05:18.attempt? Yes. In fact, this hearing involves
:05:18. > :05:24.Abu Hamza and four other terrorist suspects wanted by Americans. It
:05:24. > :05:29.had both hands up's case, ministers have been desperate to get him out
:05:29. > :05:33.of the UK. -- in Abu Hamza's case. This is the last lap of that
:05:33. > :05:40.marathon. This hearing may go on into tomorrow, and we are not sure
:05:40. > :05:42.when we will get a decision. The maths teacher who ran away to
:05:42. > :05:46.France with a 15-year-old schoolgirl has told a court in
:05:46. > :05:50.France that he is willing to return to the UK to explain himself to the
:05:50. > :05:53.authorities. He appeared in court in Bordeaux this morning for the
:05:53. > :06:03.extradition proceedings. He was arrested on suspicion of child
:06:03. > :06:07.abduction on Friday. Matt Price was in court.
:06:07. > :06:10.It was only last Friday that Jeremy Forrest and Megan Stammers were
:06:10. > :06:15.walking hand-in-hand through this beautiful French city, apparently
:06:15. > :06:18.planning their future here together. As you said, he was arrested. She
:06:18. > :06:24.was put into child-protection. Today, the latest twist in the
:06:24. > :06:29.story unfolded in the court house behind me. As Jeremy Forrest faces
:06:29. > :06:35.extradition hearing, here comes this report. It contains some
:06:35. > :06:39.fluffed a degree. -- some flash photography.
:06:39. > :06:43.The maths teacher was brought to court in Bordeaux, not to decide
:06:44. > :06:51.his guilt or otherwise, but to work out whether the French authorities
:06:51. > :06:55.would agree to extradite him. They hid him from view as best they
:06:55. > :07:03.could. In court, he looked fairly relaxed. He said he would not try
:07:03. > :07:08.to stop his extradition. He has agreed to be extradited back
:07:08. > :07:12.to the UK. We look forward to the story emerging from England. He is
:07:12. > :07:17.very appreciative of the support and assistance given to him by his
:07:17. > :07:22.family, and in the Tickler, his parents. Naturally, Jeremy is most
:07:22. > :07:28.concern about the impact of this episode on all those affected.
:07:28. > :07:31.That, presumably, means Megan Stammers in particular. Jeremy
:07:31. > :07:35.Forrest and the schoolgirl had been missing for over a week. They had
:07:35. > :07:40.last been spotted on a cross- Channel ferry. She flew home from
:07:40. > :07:44.Bordeaux on Saturday, leaving Jeremy Forrest behind in a French
:07:44. > :07:49.prison. The judges will return to court on Thursday to deliver their
:07:49. > :07:52.ruling. They are expected to allow the extradition. Jeremy Forrest
:07:52. > :07:57.could be back by Thursday evening to face questioning and possible
:07:57. > :08:02.charges. The expectation really is that
:08:02. > :08:07.those judges will rule in favour of this expedition. There are a number
:08:07. > :08:11.of flights from Bordeaux to Gatwick, to the south of London, which the
:08:11. > :08:16.airport at Megan Stammers flew into on Saturday. Again, the expectation
:08:16. > :08:21.is that he would certainly be won on -- on one of those flights. It
:08:21. > :08:25.would be up to Sussex Police to decide where this case now then
:08:25. > :08:28.goes. The Labour leader Ed Miliband will
:08:28. > :08:33.make what is billed as a highly personal speech to the Labour Party
:08:33. > :08:37.conference in Manchester today. He will describe how he has been
:08:37. > :08:41.shaped by his family background and comprehensive school education. Is
:08:41. > :08:44.expected to set out how he would shake up vocational qualifications
:08:44. > :08:50.for those who don't go to university. Our political
:08:50. > :08:57.correspondent reports. To come up with new policies,
:08:57. > :09:02.Labour's leader has learned some lessons from his old school.
:09:02. > :09:06.Haverstock Comprehensive has close links with local companies.
:09:06. > :09:09.We work in partnership with the school to provide fair access to
:09:09. > :09:13.business. We provide work experience opportunities, mentoring
:09:13. > :09:17.programmes. Ed Miliband will say he would stand
:09:17. > :09:21.up for the forgotten 50% of people who don't go to university. He
:09:21. > :09:25.would ensure that children stay in school until the age of 18, but
:09:25. > :09:29.would introduce a new qualification to give less academic pupils
:09:29. > :09:34.experience of the world of work. That is what we are concentrating
:09:34. > :09:38.on, is how we have a new deal for the forgotten 50%, with better
:09:38. > :09:43.technical education, a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy,
:09:43. > :09:48.with work experience in bedded in this curriculum between the ages of
:09:48. > :09:52.16 and 18. But the Conservatives say the reforms would devalue the
:09:52. > :09:57.exam system and that the government has already improved young people's
:09:57. > :09:59.skills. Ed Miliband pledges to go further and would compel private
:09:59. > :10:03.companies that want government contracts to provide proper
:10:03. > :10:08.training for staff. When it Miliband takes to the state,
:10:08. > :10:12.he has to do more than simply set out policy ideas. After two years
:10:13. > :10:17.leading his party, he is still an unknown quantity to many voters. He
:10:17. > :10:20.will have to do more to protect his own personality and convince us he
:10:20. > :10:24.really is a potential Prime Minister.
:10:24. > :10:29.He will tell us more about his family life today, and imply that
:10:29. > :10:33.his upbringing was less privileged than David Cameron's. Although he
:10:33. > :10:40.was visible on the streets of Manchester, how easy was he to
:10:40. > :10:43.recognise? Ed Miliband? No. Delegates are
:10:43. > :10:49.queuing up to hear him speak this afternoon, but his challenge is to
:10:49. > :10:51.be heard by less committed voters. In a few hours, the Welsh
:10:52. > :10:57.government will publish its spending plans for the next year.
:10:57. > :11:00.Its draft budget will reveal how ministers propose to divide up
:11:00. > :11:05.almost �15 billion between departments. Labour only holds half
:11:05. > :11:09.of the seats in the Assembly so it will have to do a deal with another
:11:09. > :11:13.party to secure a majority. An inquest into the death of a 25-
:11:13. > :11:16.year-old man who died in police custody has heard that he pleaded
:11:16. > :11:20.with officers not to hit him. Jacob Michael was arrested after a
:11:20. > :11:26.struggle at his home in August last year in which police used pepper
:11:26. > :11:30.spray to subdue him. Ed Thomas reports.
:11:30. > :11:36.The final moments of Jacob Michael's life were captured on
:11:37. > :11:43.CCTV. The inquest into his death were shown these pictures. The
:11:43. > :11:49.court was told police used pepper spray and battens to arrest him.
:11:49. > :11:53.He says, I'm sorry, at least four times before he is taken away.
:11:53. > :11:57.The jury was told that the 25-year- old had been drinking and taking
:11:57. > :11:59.cocaine. He became agitated and rang police after telling his
:11:59. > :12:05.father he had been threatened with a gun.
:12:05. > :12:10.This CCTV from outside his house shows police arriving. Inside,
:12:10. > :12:14.there was a struggle. Next, you see him run out. The
:12:14. > :12:19.officers chased him, and again, there's a scuffle. What happens
:12:19. > :12:23.next is not covered by the cameras. Today, his mother Christine told
:12:23. > :12:27.the inquest what she sought after more officers arrived. She said he
:12:27. > :12:31.put his hands up and said, please, don't, I haven't done anything, and
:12:31. > :12:41.that they were constantly hitting him with their buttons.
:12:41. > :12:44.
:12:44. > :12:48.It then takes four officers to carry him into the holding cell.
:12:48. > :12:54.Inside, look at the two officers at the top of the picture. Both stand
:12:54. > :12:59.on his leg. 45 minutes after Jacob Michael rang for the police, he was
:12:59. > :13:03.pronounced dead in hospital. Christine Michael, his mother, told
:13:03. > :13:06.the court she knew he was taking cocaine, and that he had been taken
:13:07. > :13:12.to hospital on a couple of occasions after he started to panic.
:13:12. > :13:20.The coroner asked people to question whether anything could be
:13:20. > :13:23.done to prevent the death. The time is coming up to a quarter
:13:23. > :13:26.past one. Our top story: Police investigating the abduction of a
:13:26. > :13:31.five-year-old girl in Mid-Wales says she was last seen climbing
:13:31. > :13:36.into the driver's side of a van. And coming up: Downloading films in
:13:36. > :13:42.just minutes - super-fast mobile services could be widely available
:13:42. > :13:52.in the UK by next summer. Later on BBC London: An interview
:13:52. > :13:53.
:13:53. > :13:55.with a woman involved with the undercover police officer, Mark
:13:55. > :14:00.Kennedy. And soldiering on - the West End
:14:00. > :14:04.play inspired by time recovering in Woolwich Barracks hospital.
:14:04. > :14:07.One of the world's natural wonders is disappearing. More than half of
:14:08. > :14:11.Australia's Great barrier Reef has been lost in the past 25 years
:14:11. > :14:18.after being hit by cyclones, affected by a coral bleaching and
:14:18. > :14:24.destroyed by some of its own native species.
:14:24. > :14:34.It is the world's large coral reef system, an unrivalled marine dual
:14:34. > :14:38.funding 2.5000 Covenantors of Australia. -- 2,500 kilometres.
:14:38. > :14:44.Cyclones account for nearly 50% of the destruction. A further 40% has
:14:44. > :14:48.been damaged by a crown of thorns starfish, a species that eats the
:14:48. > :14:53.Coral. Around 10% of the damage has been
:14:53. > :14:57.done by bleaching, which is caused by rising water temperatures and
:14:58. > :15:02.increased acidity. The result is a global climate change.
:15:02. > :15:06.If nothing else changes, the outlook is bad. People will -- the
:15:06. > :15:12.paper we have published suggests that with the same conditions over
:15:12. > :15:18.the next 10 years, we would see another 50% reduction. These
:15:18. > :15:21.changes are happening before the major impacts of climate change.
:15:21. > :15:26.The Australian government says it is spending millions to protect the
:15:26. > :15:29.reef. But the UN says that unless more is done, the reef risks losing
:15:29. > :15:39.its World Heritage status. That would turn this not only into an
:15:39. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:45.ecological disaster but a financial The reef has been scanned by Google,
:15:45. > :15:48.but are these pictures about to go from being an up to date window on
:15:48. > :15:58.an aquatic masterpiece to a collective for an archive of a
:15:58. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:04.Now, Europe's triumphant Ryder Cup team flew into Heathrow this
:16:04. > :16:08.morning, their captain paid tribute to his team for their extraordinary
:16:08. > :16:13.victory after one of the greatest comebacks ever in sporting history.
:16:13. > :16:16.I am very pleased to say he joins me now from Heathrow, good
:16:17. > :16:24.afternoon, you must have spent the last few days celebrating, how are
:16:24. > :16:29.you feeling? I am feeling a little tired, but OK, so the! It was the
:16:29. > :16:34.most extraordinary comeback, what you put it down to? Well, I put it
:16:34. > :16:39.down to extraordinary men that they achieved something unbelievable. I
:16:39. > :16:46.think it will go down into the history books of the Ryder Cup. We
:16:46. > :16:50.came back from four points down, but they believed, they believed it
:16:50. > :16:55.was possible. We knew it was done before, even though it was done by
:16:55. > :17:03.the home team, but and we knew it was going to be more difficult this
:17:03. > :17:08.time, but the die is believed -- the dye is believed when Ian
:17:09. > :17:15.Poulter won that point on the 18th, I think that was a change of
:17:15. > :17:18.momentum, and they believed on that. What is it, do you think, about the
:17:18. > :17:23.Ryder Cup that produces these extraordinary nail-biting finishes?
:17:23. > :17:31.Well, actually, the format is great, I think, matchplay, it is different
:17:31. > :17:34.to what the play pretty much a week in and week out, but at the same
:17:34. > :17:39.time you have 24 of the best players in the world playing
:17:39. > :17:43.against each other, and the difference is there, and that is
:17:43. > :17:46.why the matches are so close. have had messages of
:17:46. > :17:52.congratulations from all around the world, I am sure, and one very
:17:52. > :17:57.special one for you today. Yes, actually, the King of Spain gave me
:17:57. > :18:00.a phone call to congratulate me and tell me that he was really happy
:18:00. > :18:04.that our lot of his friends from all around the world have been
:18:04. > :18:09.calling him to congratulate him on this wonderful victory, so it was a
:18:09. > :18:17.nice touch, yeah. Would you say this is your proudest moment in
:18:17. > :18:22.golf? Well, I would say it is the best moment of my life as a golf
:18:22. > :18:27.professional. I know I have won a couple of major events, but you
:18:27. > :18:31.know how special this event is, how close it is to my heart, and, you
:18:31. > :18:40.know, that is why it is ranked number one now. Wonderful to talk
:18:40. > :18:44.to you, very many congratulations At least 37 people, including five
:18:44. > :18:48.children, are now known to have died when two boats collided in
:18:48. > :18:52.Hong Kong last night. One of the boats, which had been hired for a
:18:52. > :18:55.party, was carrying more than 120 people when it sank. Richard Galpin
:18:55. > :18:59.reports. Throughout the night, the search
:18:59. > :19:04.continued for survivors from the stricken boat. Within minutes of
:19:04. > :19:09.the collision, it had started singing, with more than 120 people
:19:09. > :19:13.on board. They had been going to watch a firework display in a
:19:13. > :19:17.harbour. Survivors brought onshore described how they had been trapped
:19:17. > :19:24.inside the boat, breaking windows so they could swim to the surface.
:19:24. > :19:29.Many thought they would die. This is the other boat involved in the
:19:29. > :19:36.collision, a ferry which suffered much less damage. Today the
:19:36. > :19:39.authorities announced the arrest of the crews of both boats.
:19:39. > :19:44.TRANSLATION: When they are operating the vessels, they have to
:19:44. > :19:48.make sure they are safe. In the course of the operation, we suspect
:19:48. > :19:53.that somebody did not fulfil their responsibility, and that is why we
:19:53. > :19:57.made the arrest. In daylight, the rescue operation has been easier,
:19:57. > :20:02.but it is still not clear if everyone has been recovered. No-one
:20:02. > :20:07.knows how many passengers were on board. Already, relatives have been
:20:07. > :20:12.coming to the city's more to identify those killed in what has
:20:12. > :20:17.been Hong Kong's worst tragedy since the 1990s. Amongst the dead,
:20:17. > :20:26.at least five children. The relatives will want answers about
:20:26. > :20:30.how the boats managed to collide with such catastrophic consequences.
:20:30. > :20:33.Super-fast mobile services which will allow you to download films in
:20:33. > :20:36.just minutes and access fast internet services on the move could
:20:36. > :20:42.be widely available to millions of people in the UK by next summer if
:20:42. > :20:46.talks later today are successful. The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, is
:20:46. > :20:51.promising to speed up the arrival of O G phone networks to end the
:20:51. > :20:54.threat of legal action by some mobile operators. -- 4G. Rory
:20:55. > :20:59.Cellan-Jones is here. The issue is that one operator is being allowed
:20:59. > :21:02.to introduce this a while before the others. That is right,
:21:02. > :21:05.Everything Everywhere was given permission to go ahead using its
:21:06. > :21:10.existing network to turn it into 4G. It will be launching probably in
:21:11. > :21:14.the next few weeks. Its rivals were furious about that. They have
:21:14. > :21:18.threatened to derail the process by going to court, and they have
:21:18. > :21:22.demanded that the regulator act to speed up the 4G auction and allow
:21:22. > :21:26.them to get ahead with their services, and it looks like a deal
:21:26. > :21:30.has been done and that will happen. That is what we are expecting today.
:21:31. > :21:35.So 4G would be widely available by next summer probably. What
:21:35. > :21:41.difference will it make to people? There is a tremendous difference in
:21:41. > :21:46.speed. I have done a test recently, and it was 10 times as fast on a 4G
:21:46. > :21:50.network as it is on an existing 3G network. That will enable all the
:21:50. > :21:53.operators to roll out new services, and it will provide a lot more
:21:53. > :21:57.capacity, and the hope will be that in some parts of the country which
:21:57. > :22:00.do not get much of a fixed broadband connection, they might
:22:00. > :22:03.even be able to use their mobile phones as their primary way of
:22:04. > :22:10.connecting to the internet, but it is supposed to provide a great
:22:10. > :22:13.contribution to the economy overall. Now, he started out as a typical
:22:13. > :22:16.garden shed inventor, but it seems that Peter Dearman may have found
:22:16. > :22:20.an answer to one of the planet's biggest problems, our energy
:22:20. > :22:24.supplies in the future. He has developed a system that uses liquid
:22:24. > :22:29.air to power engines, and now some of the UK's top engineers are
:22:29. > :22:38.trying to see if it could be used to store energy from wind farms on
:22:38. > :22:48.a large scale. Environment analyst Take a bucket of liquid air,
:22:48. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:53.chilled to minus 190 Celsius. Allow it to warm and turn back into a gas.
:22:53. > :22:58.If you fix a tune, the liquidator will expand and rush up the tuned
:22:58. > :23:06.to turn a motor. It has been developed by a lone inventor, Peter
:23:06. > :23:13.Dearman. This is the smallest one, I just use this for demonstrating
:23:13. > :23:17.to people, to show then the technology, and then I went up to a
:23:17. > :23:23.bench prototype, and then I thought, well, I had better do a car,
:23:23. > :23:29.because that is more impressive. That is when I did the car. And he
:23:29. > :23:32.hears, fuelling the car with liquid air again. -- here he is. It runs
:23:32. > :23:39.around the streets of Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire. He has
:23:39. > :23:48.been working on the idea of liquid air motors for more than 40 years.
:23:48. > :23:53.His laboratory is his garage. It is strewn with liquid air motors.
:23:53. > :23:57.is the first one, which was a modified lawnmower engine. Now this
:23:57. > :24:07.backyard gadget man is being taken increasingly seriously by the
:24:07. > :24:11.Especially since a power station in Slough came up with another use for
:24:11. > :24:16.cold liquid air. Storing energy from electricity produced by wind
:24:16. > :24:19.farms in the middle of the night. In the coming decades, we have
:24:19. > :24:24.plans in the UK to bring large amounts of wind generated
:24:24. > :24:28.electricity on to our system, and the challenge there is that the
:24:28. > :24:34.wind only blows at certain times of day, and we need to be able to
:24:34. > :24:39.store that electricity four times when the wind is not blowing.
:24:39. > :24:44.liquid air system may offer one option for that power storage.
:24:44. > :24:47.There is another innovation here, the liquid at process is kick-
:24:47. > :24:52.started by waste heat from the industrial plants next door, heat
:24:52. > :25:02.that would otherwise sail up the chimney. In a power-hungry world,
:25:02. > :25:03.
:25:03. > :25:07.we need all the inventiveness we Now, more on our top story, police
:25:07. > :25:09.investigating the abduction of a five-year-old girl in mid-Wales
:25:10. > :25:15.have been giving more information about the moment that he
:25:15. > :25:18.disappeared last night. Jon Brain is in Machynlleth, where she lives.
:25:18. > :25:23.Jon, police have been talking about their last known movements, she was
:25:23. > :25:28.seen at about 7 o'clock last night playing with friends. Tell us more
:25:28. > :25:32.about what police are saying. is right, Sophie, she was blamed on
:25:32. > :25:37.her bicycle around the back of her home when she went missing. Some of
:25:37. > :25:41.the children she was what reported that she got into a vehicle, a
:25:41. > :25:45.light-coloured vehicle, possibly a small van, a 4x4, but what is
:25:45. > :25:50.curious is that she seems to have gone in at the driver's side,
:25:50. > :25:54.suggesting that possibly she may even have known the man or woman,
:25:54. > :25:57.trusted them, or of course it could have been a left-handed vehicle,
:25:57. > :26:02.but there does not appear to have been any struggle. The police are
:26:02. > :26:05.very anxious to trace that vehicle and its driver. That does seem to
:26:05. > :26:10.be the main line of inquiry at the moment, but they are stressing that
:26:10. > :26:13.it is not the only line of inquiry. They have been releasing
:26:13. > :26:17.photographs of April to encourage the public to look out further, and
:26:17. > :26:23.there has been a huge search operation, many people just coming
:26:23. > :26:27.out to help overnight. Well, we hear that phrase so often, a close-
:26:27. > :26:31.knit community, it can be something of a cliche, but I think in this
:26:31. > :26:37.case it is entirely appropriate. As you say, literally hundreds of
:26:37. > :26:41.people from this area have turned night and this morning, just to
:26:41. > :26:45.turn up and see what they can do to help. No-one put out an appeal to
:26:45. > :26:50.ask them, they just came and are now taking part in searches of the
:26:50. > :26:53.streets and countryside. This is an area with a great deal of woodland,
:26:53. > :26:57.quite a difficult search area, so obviously the efforts of these
:26:57. > :27:01.people are being appreciated. But with each passing hour, the
:27:01. > :27:06.situation gets more critical. cannot imagine what the police are
:27:06. > :27:10.going through, as the police said, the worst nightmare for any parent.
:27:10. > :27:13.Well, yes, and that is why many people say they have turned out,
:27:13. > :27:19.that they put themselves in that situation. We have not heard
:27:19. > :27:22.directly from the parents yet themselves. Often, of course, you
:27:22. > :27:26.get an appeal from the parents in this situation, but at the moment
:27:26. > :27:30.they are still very concerned, hoping that something can be done,
:27:30. > :27:35.people are hoping for the best, but obviously fearing the worst as well.
:27:35. > :27:37.Thank you very much. There will be plenty more on that story on the
:27:37. > :27:44.BBC News Channel, but right now let's look at the latest weather
:27:44. > :27:50.Typical autumn weather continues, wild swings between heavy downpours
:27:50. > :27:53.and sunshine, producing images like this, a double rainbow from
:27:53. > :27:55.Hereford, and there will be more images like this across parts of
:27:56. > :28:02.the United Kingdom this afternoon with showers continuing, some
:28:02. > :28:05.sunshine if you are lucky, fairly dusty winds as well. This is the
:28:05. > :28:09.rainfall picture so far, showers lining up through western Scotland,
:28:09. > :28:14.north-west England and Wales. As the afternoon goes on, some of them
:28:14. > :28:18.will track further east, accompanied by gusty winds. It is a
:28:18. > :28:21.dry and bright today in the south- east, but even here the cloud and
:28:21. > :28:25.outbreaks of rain move in later this afternoon and into this
:28:25. > :28:30.evening. Showers pull back across south-west England this afternoon,
:28:30. > :28:34.heavier downpours across Wales, merging to give longer spells of
:28:34. > :28:40.rain through north-west England, and you could see Hale and rumbles
:28:40. > :28:43.of thunder, all the while with gusty winds. More heavy rain across
:28:43. > :28:48.Northern Ireland to end the day, and across Scotland a fair few
:28:48. > :28:51.showers, as we saw on the rain for picture. The winds here are
:28:51. > :28:57.relatively light compared with elsewhere. In north-east England,
:28:57. > :29:01.quieter weather to come, but we will still see some rain for a time.
:29:01. > :29:04.Showery start to tonight, longer spells of rain, Northern Ireland
:29:04. > :29:10.and southern Scotland well into the night. The north-west Highlands
:29:10. > :29:13.cold, close to freezing for some of us. To the south, gusty winds
:29:13. > :29:16.continue, running along the south coast, but later in the night
:29:16. > :29:19.something drier and clearer for central and eastern England,
:29:19. > :29:23.temperatures generally around seven-12 degrees. Tomorrow may look
:29:23. > :29:28.the same, but there are subtle differences, more sunshine between
:29:28. > :29:31.the showers, the potential for a longer spell of rain in the south-
:29:31. > :29:36.east. Those showers merge into one area of rain feeding through north-
:29:36. > :29:40.west England and into North Wales. The winds ease into the afternoon,
:29:41. > :29:43.but still low teens for the temperatures. A bit of a break on
:29:44. > :29:49.Thursday, this bumper and the isobars quietening things down
:29:49. > :29:52.before more showers come from the West later. A lot of uncertainty
:29:52. > :29:56.but there is the potential from Friday and Saturday for England and
:29:56. > :30:01.Wales to see further outbreaks of rain that could at times be quite
:30:01. > :30:05.heavy. After that lunch on Thursday, rain on Friday, but do not take
:30:05. > :30:09.that too literally yet, because there is a lot of uncertainty about
:30:09. > :30:13.the Northern extent of that rainfall, and we will keep you
:30:13. > :30:20.updated. At the moment, into the weekend, it looks like things will
:30:20. > :30:23.A reminder of our top story, police investigating the abduction of a
:30:23. > :30:27.five-year-old girl in mid-Wales say she was last seen climbing into the
:30:27. > :30:30.driver's side of a ban last night. On the BBC News Channel, Ed