30/05/2013 BBC News at One

Mark Bridger has been found guilty of abducting and murdering the

schoolgirl, April Jones, in Powys last year.

The five-year-old went missing in October. She had been playing

outside her home with friends. Her body has never been found.

We'll have reports from both Mold and Machynlleth, April's home town.

Michael Adebowale appears in court for the first time charged with

murdering Drummer Lee Rigby in London last week.

And the Government here is being taken to court because the European

Commission believes some migrants are being discriminated against when

try to claim benefits. A 22-year-old man is being

questioned on suspicion of the murder of the missing teenager

Georgia Williams. And not so much the darling buds,

why this spring has been the coldest in more than 50 years.

Later on BBC London: Police launch a murder investigation following the

death of an elderly woman in a flat fire in Deptford.

And open water swimming, we look at the health risks associated with its

growing popularity. In the past hour, Mark Bridger has

been found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April

Jones. She had disappeared from her home in Machynlleth last October and

despite a massive search by people in the town her body has never been

found. The jury at Mold Crown Court took less than a day to decide it

didn't believe Bridger's story that he had accidentally run over her in

his car, but couldn't remember what he had done with her body. Let's

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 134 seconds

cross to Mold and our Wales his car. Bridger told officers he

had been in an accident, claiming he had run over April before panicking.

He couldn't remember what he had done with the body. But the

investigation soon unravelled his story. The police search of Mark

bridger's home uncovered his fascination for local schoolgirls.

He stored photos of them on his computer alongside indecent

magistrates of children he downloaded from the internet. And

photos of child murder victims, such as holyS and Jessica Chapman.

Forensic teams found traces of blood which matched April's DNA and

alongside the bone fragments in the fire Mark Bridger's knife. The

police continued to look for her body. It became the largest search

in UK force history, but only one person knows where her remains are

hidel. The court heard how Mark Bridger suggested places the police

could look, the golf course, the picnic area. They believe he is

still trying to maintain control over the investigation.

Mark Bridger, I would describe as an evil and manipulative individual.

Clearly someone who likes to be in control. Our only hope from our

prospective and the family's prospective is he will tell us what

he did with April Jones. April's parents have endured months

of speculation and uncertainty. Reliving their daughter's

disappearance each day in court. Today's verdicts may bring some

comfort, but they don't answer the questions that pains them the most -

April Jones is still missing and no Well, April's disappearance is a

story that struck a dhord -- chord with parents and families. Within

minutes of her going missing, hundreds went to the streets of

Machynlleth to find her. Soon they were supplemented by officers from

45 different forces across the UK. Jon Brain reports on the search for

April Jones. A vulnerable member of their

community was missing and they weren't going to rest until they

found her. They have been out searching until

3am and they had gone home to bed for a couple of hours and they have

come back for daylight, ready to go again.

Every morning, they came to offer their help. Virtually a whole town

with just one aim - finding a little girl.

I have got two people who don't have transport so I will take them with

Even when the police suggested it was time to leave the search to the

experts, they insisted on carrying on. The police are going to tell the

locals to stop. I don't think they will stop anyway because it is a

close-knit community. We just need to find her.

Even the efforts of the volunteers were dwarfed by those of the

professionals. This was the biggest operation of its kind ever staged in

the UK. Every branch of the rescue services were involved and police

officers from nearly every part of the country. This morning's task,

open area search. In fact we had difficulty in trying

to get rid of officers to have rest. We had officers who wouldn't take,

who didn't want to go back home to their home forces and wanted to take

leave and stay to volunteer to search.

Once Mark Bridger was charged with murder, the search was April turned

into a search for her body. But many in the town still refused to believe

she couldn't be found alive. This child has not been found. We

still have hope. I have been saying this from the very beginning. We

still have hope. In the end, hope was not enough. But

the people of this town can at least take solace in knowing they see

couldn't have done anymore to bring Well, the crown prosecution released

a statement welcoming today's verdicts. They describe Mark Bridger

as a violent, cold-hearted murderer and a calculated liar. He now has to

wait until 2pm when he will be called back into the courtroom for

the process of sentencing to begin. We understand the judge is expecting

to take sometime before he gives Mark Bridger his sentence. However,

he has already been warned that the only sentence in this case is a life

term. Thank you very much indeed.

Well, we will have more reaction from April Jones's hometown of

Machynlleth later in the programme. There was tight security at

Westminster Magistrates' Court this morning as Michael Adebowal appeared

in court for the first time charged with murdering Drummer Lee Rigby.

The 22-year-old is accused of possessing a firearm. Well,

throughout the hearing he was allowed to stay seated because of

the injuries he received when police shot him during his arrest last

week. Let's cross to June Kelly who was at the hearing. June. Well,

officers from Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command had to

wait a while to get access to Michael Adebowal. Once they did the

charges came quickly indeed. Just over 36 hoursz after he was released

from hospital, he was appearing here Eight days on from events at

Woolwich, one of the two main suspects was brought to Westminster

Magistrates' Court in Central London. The security was intense.

22-year-old Michael Adebowal was released from hospital on Tuesday

and the charges were announced late last night. He appeared in the dock

in handcuffs. He was wearing a sweat shirt and loose white trousers. He

spoke only to confirm his name, age and address. He is charged with the

murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday. He faces a second count

of possessing a 9. 4 millimetre revolver with intent to cause people

to believe that violence would be used against them. A second suspect,

in the case, Michael Adebolajo is still in hospital and hasn't been

questioned. After Lee Rigby's killing, both suspects were shot at

the scene by police. At today's brief hearing, it was announced that

Michael Adebowal will be prosecuted under terrorism legislation. He is

due back in court on Monday. Then he will appear before a judge at the

was heavily bandaged, he was clearly having difficulty walking because of

the leg injuries he sustained. Now, after the hearing he was taken to

Belmarsh top security jail in South-East London which is just a

short distance from Woolwich Barracks. Kate.

June, thank you. Every p year millions of Britons go

to Spain on holiday. If they are ill, they are entitled to free

healthcare. At least that's the idea, but increasing numbers of

Britons who fall ill say they have been told they will have to pay for

treatment even though all EU citizens have the right to receive

State medical care in member countries if they produce a European

health insurances card. Matthew Price reports.

Bring on the sunshine. Millions of Brits fly in and hit Spain's beaches

every year. A short hop from home, with all the comforts of home. Or so

thought Ray and Rosemary Burton when they were on holiday here. They

headed to this public hospital when he became seriously ill. They

assumed they could use Ray's European health card called. It is

supposed to give free access to emergency care in Spain.

We presented our cards, but we were asked for credit cards and then

later, asked for insurance details and they were quite firm in not

wanting the card. It is not just them. One woman went

to hospital in Ibiza needing surgery for a twisted bowel. The card wasn't

accepted and the hospital is trying to charge her �21,000. In Alicante,

a British couple was charged �2500 was treating a head injury. Their

daughter had to fly back to Spain to get a refund which she did get.

Millions of British people come to this part of Spain every year on

their holidays and the British Government says for most of them, if

they have to use the health cards, the system does work, but there is

concern br when it does not work and not just for British people, but for

holiday-makers from across Europe. That's why Spain's health officials

have been told by the European Commission to fix the system. The

Spanish Health Ministry says it has been working properly, but it will

co-operate. Far, far away from the sunshine, Brussels today wasn't just

pointing the finger at Spain. It is the European Commission's job to

police how the EU's single market is working. Today, it also said the UK

is breaking the law, failing to pay EU migrants living in Britain the

benefits they are due. The Government says its benefit tests

are fair and necessary, but the commission is taking a the UK to

court over this. Well, let's be clear. We want the UK

to apply the EU rules against benefit tour tourism. We are not

talking about letting people get access to UK benefits from the day

they get off the ferry or get off the plane, it is people who are

resident in the UK. So today, Britain divided on the EU?

Happy with the action against Spain, less so perhaps about that against

the UK. Rules here mean some people who have been working and paying tax

in the UK have been prevented from claiming Ben fits like maternity pay

and jobseeker's allowance. This morning the commission did say the

UK was in contravention of European law and is being taken to court.

Let's speak to our political correspondent Norman Smith to

explain why and the Government's response. Well, the Government's

response has been see you in court. We are not going to back down over

our benefits system and we seem to be heading for a stand-up political

and judicial fistfight with the European Commission and the British

Government with the European Commission saying you are

discriminating against EU nationals claiming benefits in Britain, by

imposing tougher requirements on them than you do on your own

citizens. The British Government saying we think it's far too easy

for EU nationals to claim benefits here and by the way, we are going to

introduce additional curbs to limit benefits they can get. The

Commission say, you do not have a problem with benefit tourism. The

British Government say benefit tourism is costing the British

taxpayer dear. It is a significant row. But you sense privately

Ministers might be going this isn't a bad row to have because in the

current debate over Europe when David Cameron is under huge pressure

to take a tougher line on Europe, here is an issue he can be seen to

be standing up to Europe, to resisting Europe trying to grab more

powers. Although this is a real row, you rather suspect Iain Duncan Smith

is more than happy to cross the road, jump a fence, crawl through a

hedge to have this particular row. Thank you.

Our main story: In the past hour Mark Bridger has been found guilty

of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones. Still to

come: Henry VIII's Mary Rose has a How the live broadcast of the

Queen's Coronation ushered in the television age. And we meet the

Londoners who have run away to the VII's Mary Rose sank. Now 30 years

after it was raised from the seabed, it has a new home in a purpose-built

�35 million museum which opens today. Visitors will be able to see

the Hull and some of the 19,000 artefacts. Let's cross to Portsmouth

and our correspondent who is there. This is the Mary Rose, she's never

been seen before. She's clearly visible deck by deck. The remains of

the Hull that you are looking at now are only part of the story in this

new museum. The team have effectively reconstructed the

missing second half of the ship. They've put inside a lot of the

items, in fact thousands, that were found in and around the hull.

They're back here in positions they would have occupied on the day she

sank. Ringing out across the Solent for

the first time in almost 460 years, the ship's bell of the flagship

sounding over the spot where 400 men lost their lives. Let us remember

before God the men of Mary Rose. On 11th October 1982 the Mary Rose

had come home. There is the wreck... She had been hid nonthe mud and silt

less than a mile from the docks where she was built. But the public

who flocked to see her had to peer through water and chemicals, a

radical plan was needed. For the past three years Mary Rose has been

hidden from view as her new home grew around her. It's like walking

through, down this line of a immediate Eval ship from that time,

looking at how it was, how the sailors lived at that very time.

It's almost unbelievable. The story told here is not just of a ship, but

of the MEP who served on her. Many of -- men who served on her. Many

finds can be linked to kru members. Their remains have helped scientists

reconstruct their physical appearance. Among the first visitors

the archaeologist who led the original recovery. I think this is a

duty to the crew. It's their monument. But also I think we have a

duty to share it with the public. Once she was a dead ship, an

incomplete jigsaw. But no more. The Mary Rose has been reborn.

In a way this is a deck story and there are big clues. These chests

were full of their original contents, for example and those help

lead us to individual members of the crew. The skills, the ways that they

lived. But among the finds was one which has nothing to do with human

beings, but one final detail and that is this, the remains of the

ship's dog. Absolutely extraordinary. Thank you

very much. You can see a special programme on the Mary Rose on the

A man arrested over the disappearance of a teenager is now

being questioned on suspicion of her murder. Georgia Williams, 17, and

from Wellington in Shropshire, was last seen in the town on Sunday. The

22-year-old man was arrested in Glasgow on Wednesday.

Her disappearance was completely out of character. Georgia Williams, a

former head girl and daughter of a police officer, hasn't been seen

since Sunday evening. Her final tweet suggests she was tired but

there were no other clues as to where or why she had gone. A man was

arrested yesterday. A silver Toyota van was recovered from this car

park. Detectives have tracked the journey from Wellington, via North

Wales and Cumbria, to a final destination. They're still appealing

for information from anyone who may have seen it on its journey. The

police search has been focussed on a house in Wellington, where

neighbours say a Jamie Reynolds lives with his mother. Detectives

brought the man back here, buff the nature of his questioning bsh -- but

the nature of his questioning has changed. He was detained on

suspicion of kidnap, now it's the suspicion of murder. Her former

school says it's devastated and described Georgia as someone who was

liked by everyone. But it's clear now that everybody fears the worst.

There's more evidence today that the housing market could be gathering

momentum. A report from the nationwide shows that sales saw

their strongest growth in 18 months with prices now 1. 1% higher than a

year ago. Our chief economics correspondent is with me. Something

positive then? Yes, the Nationwide say there is a sense of momentum

because the economy is growing and the Bank of England has launched a

scheme to get more money into the market which has helped bring down

mortgage rates. Let's look at the figures. They're saying the average

house price in May was nearly �168,000 and over the last year to

May there was an increase of 1. 1%, the biggest in 18 months. But let's

not forget that the average house price at the peak of the boom back

in October 2007 was a lot higher, just over �186,000, some way to get

back to that. We shouldn't forget that there are regional variations

and different figures for April, show as where London prices are

growing, in one region of England, the north-east, they're falling by

nearly 6%. Big disparities, depending on where you are looking

around the UK. If you have been shivering in the cold this month you

won't be surprised to know this spring was officially the coldest in

more than half a century. Over the past four weeks we have had heavy

rain, high winds and as many of you will know, even frost and snow. One

of the areas that has seen some of the worst is Herefordshire and our

correspondent is in Ross-on-Wye with more.

As you can see short sleeves here today but not because we are

enjoying a mini heatwave but rather because we are in one of these giant

polytunnels which if you are growing fresh fruit like strawberries is one

of the only ways because the British climate is increasingly hostile.

It's just served up the cold coldest spring for 50 years.

Heavy rain through Scotland and Northern Ireland... The charts are

not looking encouraging for this week. This evening good luck, the

weather is truly awful. Spring 2013, started out bad, and didn't get much

better. Even in mid-May there was snow on the ground in Shropshire,

and the latest med office numbers make it official -- met office

numbers make it official it's been the coldest spring for more than 50

years. Normally milder weather comes in from the Atlantic, but we have

seen is persistent colder weather coming in from the continent. It's

been a blocked Pat earn, that's where the chilli weather has been

coming through. In April we had a tech tures of 2 Celsius Celsius we

don't often get in mid-winter. It shows how cold this spring has been.

If you are in the soft fruit business it's hard to live with the

British climate. The only choice is to use polytunnels to shift things

along. Outside it feels like late winter. In here, it feels like June.

The growing season is more than two weeks late. It's a real challenge

and it's so difficult to know whether this is global warming or

cooling or wetting or something. Or, whether it's just a seasonal change.

We had last year a late spring, but the year before we actually picked

17 days earlier than we have picked this year. So this spring has hardly

been one for the scrapbooks. More a case of covering up, keeping dry and

hoping play can resume. Oh, and keep the wellies handy, there's still

plenty of rain around. The forecast is for an insettled June. The good

news is they're managing to manage all this horrible weather. We are

even getting a taste of summer time. But what everybody could do with is

a lot more sunshine. Thank you. We will have the weather

forecast shortly. Now let's return to our main story and the news that

Mark Bridger has been found guilty of the abduction and murder of

five-year-old April Jones. She disa I peered -- disappeared last

October. And her body has never been found. Our UK affairs correspondent

is there for us. What happened in October continues

to cast a shadow over this town. People are still upset and people

have had to relive the events of October as this trial has played

out. They've had to see it in newspapers and watch it on

television. People have not wanted to forget. They've wanted to show

that they remember April and outside pubs and shops you will see time and

time again pink ribbons, that's been a symbol of that campaign. At one

stage it was a campaign to find April as volunteers gathered in the

streets and headed in all directions out of Machynlleth. Lately, it's

become a campaign for justice. Now Mark Bridger has been convicted. In

the aftermath of that trial there will be questions for the police.

Why did it take so long to identify Mark Bridger as a person of

interest? And why did it take so long to bring him to custody? The

police say they did all that they could and that huge search was

taking place and when you talk to people in this community they're

very clear, they believe Mark Bridger is the man responsible and

the man responsible alone for what happened to April Jones. Of course,

some of those details still are not known. The true extent of his crime

has not been revealed in court. He has refused to say how April died,

claiming he cannot remember. There are people gathering in Machynlleth

today for a funeral and for some it's brought into sharp focus

they've never been able to bury April's body. Thank you.

does look as though it's actually the coldest in around 50 years.

That's come in from The Met Office April hour ago.

It's March that made it record-breaking in the top five,

because it was so exceptionally cold.

In terms of the weather for this afternoon, it's not a heatwave.

Bright spells and showers and some of the showers could be on the heavy

side. This is the satellite picture. In the last 24 hours we have been

seeing this persistent pattern from the east. It's like our spring. This

is what's happening this afternoon. Cloudier on that north sea coast but

out towards the south-west high pressure is coming and that should

be in time for the weekend. For the time being concentrating on the

weather for this afternoon, it's a mixture of bright spells and

showers. Some of the showers could be well heavy. Here is an example,

across the south-west here. Probably we are talking about Surrey, Kent

and Sussex, these will be the heaviest downpours today. They will

extend across the Midlands, too. The North Sea coast misty in places.

Cloudy across Scotland. Not necessarily the Western Isles.

Across Northern Ireland where we have the bright weather, much as

yesterday. This evening, the showers that will have brewed across the

south will fade. But it's still going to be misty and murky and damp

along the North Sea coasts. In the north-west there is a change going

on in the air. We are going to see more cloud drifting in to Northern

Ireland and western parts of Scotland. Damp weather, too. As far

as tomorrow goes, it's a different story in the north-west, so more

cloud. Not so sunny in Belfast. The rest of the country brighter and

also brighter on most of the North Sea coasts, although just off East

Anglia there might be mist around. That's good news for the cricket at

Lords starting in the morning. Should be bright here. And we have

the horse racing at Epsom, as well, that's Friday and Saturday. The

weather is looking fine, as well. Plenty of bright weather. For most

of us, given we get a fair bit of sunshine, it will feel quite warm. I

think in summary, bright and warm for many of us but not slightly for

everyone everyone

Thank you very much. Our main story: In the past hour, Mark Bridger has

been found guilty of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April