0:00:00 > 0:00:00News Channel. I'll be back with the team for the late news. That
0:00:02 > 0:00:05Now on BBC One its time for the news where you are.
0:00:05 > 0:00:07Goodbye.
0:00:12 > 0:00:17Good evening, I'm Asad Ahmad.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The grandparents of a four-year-old girl
0:00:20 > 0:00:23who was found just over a week ago after going missing for 8
0:00:23 > 0:00:25months, say they are over the moon to have her home.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Elliana Shand was taken by her mother and maternal
0:00:28 > 0:00:31grandmother to Jamaica, America and Europe before she was
0:00:31 > 0:00:34eventually tracked down in Spain.
0:00:34 > 0:00:41Caroline Davies has been speaking to the family.
0:00:41 > 0:00:48Happy birthday to you...Elliana Shand was taken from the UK in May
0:00:48 > 0:00:51last year. Her grandparents have been searching for her ever since.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55We were in the court trying to get more information about where they
0:00:55 > 0:01:03were, what they were doing, and they literally got a phone call. At first
0:01:03 > 0:01:07we thought, because you think, is it good news or bad news? The lady come
0:01:07 > 0:01:10up and said, I hope you've got a passport. Because they found her.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Eight months ago a judge was considering whether Elliana should
0:01:13 > 0:01:20stay with her mother or be put in Sean and Eileen's care. Her mother
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Jessica Richards has schizophrenia. Before the decision was made,
0:01:23 > 0:01:28Elliana was taken to Jamaica by her maternal grandmother, she travelled
0:01:28 > 0:01:30to America, Europe, eventually ending up in Spain with her mother.
0:01:30 > 0:01:35She was tracked down last week.We never thought for one minute we
0:01:35 > 0:01:39would have been involved in something like this. Missing child,
0:01:39 > 0:01:45having to try and find her. It's strange when she's back, isn't it?
0:01:45 > 0:01:51Because she's back and it's back to normal now. Our main focus now is
0:01:51 > 0:01:56that she's not stressed in any way. A judge was so concerned for her
0:01:56 > 0:02:00safety he allowed her picture to be released to help find her. UK and
0:02:00 > 0:02:02international police were on the case but Sean didn't want to leave
0:02:02 > 0:02:07it to them.Are used social media, my Twitter account, and Facebook. We
0:02:07 > 0:02:15used your good selves to find her. But it was social media which
0:02:15 > 0:02:19ultimately found her.In December, through social media, Sean found out
0:02:19 > 0:02:25that Elliana's mother was in Spain. Now Elliana is home he hopes to help
0:02:25 > 0:02:32others.I'm like a dog with a bone. My phone never stops beeping every
0:02:32 > 0:02:39time it is a missing child.The family hopes they can be reunited
0:02:39 > 0:02:52soon. Caroline Davies, BBC London News. A British Airways pilot has
0:02:52 > 0:02:59been arrested. Another pilot took his place in the flight. The
0:02:59 > 0:03:0349-year-old remains in police custody. Accused of performing and
0:03:03 > 0:03:06aviation function when the level of alcohol was over the prescribed
0:03:06 > 0:03:12limit. As pressure mounts on the government to offer free sanitary
0:03:12 > 0:03:15products to girls on free school meals, a charity in London which
0:03:15 > 0:03:19promotes what they call menstrual dignity is celebrating the release
0:03:19 > 0:03:23of a Bollywood film. Which tells the story of a man who has helped the
0:03:23 > 0:03:29charity changed the lives of poor women. Alice Hutton reports.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33A comedy about women's hygiene doesn't immediately sounds
0:03:33 > 0:03:41like a box office hit.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43The film was inspired by this man, Arunachalam Muruganantham,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46and the 20 year journey to make a cheap sanitary pad
0:03:46 > 0:03:49for his wife after he found out she was using a dirty rag
0:03:49 > 0:03:56as a replacement.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59More than 5000 of his machines are now in operation across India,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02giving 40 million women access to cheap pads for the first time.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Among the lives he changed are a group of campaigners from London.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Period poverty charity, Binti, who's been working
0:04:08 > 0:04:11with him for three years.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13And today they've got a very special visitor.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Padman's producer, Twinkle Khanna.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18It's a compelling story, it was so compelling that
0:04:18 > 0:04:20I abandoned my second book, I was halfway through that,
0:04:21 > 0:04:27and I started writing about him.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29And then I chased him for eight months.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32I called him every single day till finally he agreed to meet me.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35The team behind the movie say they hope it will put an end
0:04:35 > 0:04:39to the stigma and shame that some women are made to feel every month.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Alice Hutton, BBC News.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44A look at tomorrow's weather.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45And this won't take long.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48All you need to know is that there'll be lots of rain.
0:04:48 > 0:04:49And it won't be very warm either.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51That's it.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53If you're heading into town tonight to see Lumiere London,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57be aware roads in the West End are closed to allow for the number
0:04:57 > 0:04:58of people coming in tonight.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01Have a very good night.