:00:00. > :00:16.A jealous man with a historx of violence against his ex`wife was
:00:17. > :00:20.Jane Wiggett was found hidddn in her bed at her flat after going missing.
:00:21. > :00:22.Her former husband, Danny Spencer from Cheltenh`m,
:00:23. > :00:25.lied about where she was before trying to flee the country.
:00:26. > :00:30.Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs.
:00:31. > :00:31.Despite their divorce, Jane Wiggett still saw
:00:32. > :00:35.Danny Spencer, mainly at falily occasions, but sometimes alone.
:00:36. > :00:39.On the 22nd of July last ye`r, CCTV caught them shopping in Cheltenham
:00:40. > :00:42.when Spencer bought her a phnk dress, a dress she's seen wdaring
:00:43. > :00:49.The following night Danny Spencer visited Jane in her flat in Whaddon
:00:50. > :00:53.and, for a reason only he knows he strangled her and hid her body
:00:54. > :00:57.in her bed, covering it with a duvet and pillows.
:00:58. > :01:00.He hid her so well that, two days later when her famhly came
:01:01. > :01:07.Spencer then tried to cover his tracks, telling friends
:01:08. > :01:10.and family who were looking for Jane that she was away `nd that
:01:11. > :01:15.He was caught on camera driving her car, which he later sold for ?2 500.
:01:16. > :01:18.Police say it was to make people believe she'd
:01:19. > :01:23.But, as concerns grew, Jane Wiggett's family reported her
:01:24. > :01:29.They told police Danny Spencer had been in contact with her so they
:01:30. > :01:33.called him, but he lied bec`use he knew he had already killed her.
:01:34. > :01:35.She's supposed to be calling me tonight around ten o'clock.
:01:36. > :01:46.And why is it she is not speaking to anyone else?
:01:47. > :01:52.Have you got a telephone nulber for her?
:01:53. > :01:59.Because she's been reported as a missing person to us.
:02:00. > :02:02.The next day, police found Jane Wiggett's body in her flat three
:02:03. > :02:06.Danny Spencer had gone to ground so they immediately issued
:02:07. > :02:10.Police are looking for a man from Cheltenham they believd
:02:11. > :02:14.Tonight police want to locate Danny Spencer.
:02:15. > :02:17.They are concerned he may try to leave the country.
:02:18. > :02:22.Spencer was arrested at this hotel near Birmingh`m
:02:23. > :02:24.Airport after a member of staff recognised him from the appdal.
:02:25. > :02:27.He had his passport with hil and a hunting knife.
:02:28. > :02:31.Forensic analysis found his blood under Jane Wiggett's
:02:32. > :02:33.fingernails, but it was also his lack of phone calls to
:02:34. > :02:39.The family and friends were continuing to make contact with Jane
:02:40. > :02:42.by her mobile phone and landline, but Daniel Spencer in fact stopped
:02:43. > :02:47.making any form of contact with Jane in this way from around that date,
:02:48. > :02:52.the 24th of July, and that hs why we feel he knew she didn't need to
:02:53. > :02:58.be phoned because in fact hd had been responsible for her de`th.
:02:59. > :03:02.Danny Spencer now faces a life sentence for killing
:03:03. > :03:05.a woman he had been violent to in the past, but a woman, it
:03:06. > :03:21.A Royal Marine from Somerset will not be able to take his battle to
:03:22. > :03:23.overturn his conviction for murder to the Supreme Court
:03:24. > :03:26.Alexander Blackman ` who's 39 and from Taunton ` was
:03:27. > :03:29.jailed for ten years for shooting dead a wounded Afghan insurgent
:03:30. > :03:31.Earlier this year his appeal was rejected at the
:03:32. > :03:35.The Bishop of Gloucester has been interviewed by police on suspicion
:03:36. > :03:38.of indecently assaulting a woman and a girl more than 30 years ago.
:03:39. > :03:40.The Right Reverend Michael Perham was not arrested.
:03:41. > :03:42.On Saturday it was announced he would be standing down from
:03:43. > :03:51.May 2004, and the new Bishop of Gloucester is enthroned.
:03:52. > :03:58.The Right Reverand Michael Perham had previously been Dean of Derby
:03:59. > :04:02.He was also a well known figure nationally ` a member of thd House
:04:03. > :04:05.of Lords and of the House of Bishops' Standing Committee.
:04:06. > :04:07.Today in a statement, the Metropolitan police said that
:04:08. > :04:10.they could confirm a 66`year`old man had been
:04:11. > :04:13.interviewed on suspicion of indecent assault on a woman and a chhld.
:04:14. > :04:21.The alleged incidents are s`id to have occurred between 1980 `nd 981.
:04:22. > :04:27.Bishop Michael was due to h`ve retired this November on
:04:28. > :04:30.his 67th birthday, but on S`turday it was announced that he wotld be
:04:31. > :04:37.standing down with immediatd effect for personal reasons.
:04:38. > :04:40.Today, the diocese of Gloucdster released a statement saying,
:04:41. > :04:45."This is a police matter, wd have no further comment to make."
:04:46. > :04:48.The process is now under wax to enable the Bishop of Tewkesbury
:04:49. > :04:52.the Right Reverend Martyn Snow, to take up the duties of thd Bishop
:04:53. > :04:59.More than 300 workers at a Lulberry factory
:05:00. > :05:02.in Somerset have been screened for tuberculosis after two staff were
:05:03. > :05:05.Public health officials say anyone at the Rookery
:05:06. > :05:16.in Chilcompton who tests positive will be referred to specialhsts
:05:17. > :05:19.The Deputy Prime Minister Nhck Clegg has been defending his record on
:05:20. > :05:22.The West Country is still his party's bedrock with nine MPs,
:05:23. > :05:25.but the European elections here were a disaster for him.
:05:26. > :05:27.In an interview with David Garmston, he said
:05:28. > :05:36.his party had made tough choices to get the economy back on track.
:05:37. > :05:41.Even after four and a half xears in government, we still have a job to
:05:42. > :05:46.explain to people that taxes are lower, for over 23 million people on
:05:47. > :05:51.lower incomes, because we h`ve raised the point at which you pay
:05:52. > :05:53.income taxed at Micro are your backs against the wall?
:05:54. > :05:58.Can I answer the question? We have to explain people are
:05:59. > :06:01.enjoying lower taxes, we help more apprenticeships than ever bdfore,
:06:02. > :06:05.the state pension has gone tp by a higher in ever before because of
:06:06. > :06:11.Liberal Democrats. These ard things that will make a difference to
:06:12. > :06:15.people putt everyday lives. We have to say, this is what we havd done
:06:16. > :06:17.for you, better pensions, bdtter apprenticeships, fairer taxds..
:06:18. > :06:21.And you can see the full interview on BBC iPlayer.
:06:22. > :06:22.That's it from us tonight. We're back with you in Breakfast
:06:23. > :06:23.tomorrow. But for now I'll leave you with Ian,
:06:24. > :06:32.who has the latest forecast. Well, The Met office has a xellow
:06:33. > :06:37.warning out for some heavy rain tonight. It was a marginal decision
:06:38. > :06:39.whether to issue this or not. Impacts, I suspect, will be felt on
:06:40. > :06:45.the roads with standing watdr and big puddles, etc. That will pass by
:06:46. > :06:51.tomorrow. For the time being, already a fairer run I don't train
:06:52. > :06:54.with us, more waiting in thd South still to come, and through the
:06:55. > :06:59.course of the night temperatures down to around 15 or 17 Celsius
:07:00. > :07:03.There may well still be a wdt start for some of you in the mornhng rush
:07:04. > :07:09.hour but the rains fairly qtickly clearing away. I good at fudging
:07:10. > :07:13.around, some showers around, but many districts staying dry through
:07:14. > :07:19.the day and we have a low pollen count to come with it. Tempdratures
:07:20. > :07:25.will be getting up safely into the low 20s across`the`board, as high as
:07:26. > :07:30.23 or 24 Celsius in a few spots I good today on Thursday, it looks
:07:31. > :07:31.decent for the start of the Bristol balloon Fiesta tricky forec`st for
:07:32. > :07:31.Friday. unsettled tone continues into the
:07:32. > :07:44.weekend. There's been a fair bit of talk
:07:45. > :07:48.about what weather is heading our way for the weekend. We will touch
:07:49. > :07:51.on that at the end of the forecast. In terms of the weather here and
:07:52. > :07:53.now, it is a lot of rain on the way. So plenty