Poignant tributes have been paid in memory of missing five-year-old girl April Jones.

Well-wishers lit candles and released Chinese lanterns into the sky at around 7pm on Monday after the girl's parents asked for her to be remembered, one week on from her disappearance.

It is believed Coral Jones, 40, and husband Paul, 44, released their own Chinese lantern from their garden in Machynlleth.

Their private remembrance came several hours after the five-year-old's alleged killer was remanded by magistrates.

A police van carrying former lifeguard Mark Bridger was attacked and he was sworn at by an angry crowd as he was taken to and from Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court yesterday.

The 46-year-old cried in the dock as he was remanded for the alleged murder and abduction of the schoolgirl.

He will appear by videolink on Wednesday at Caernarfon Crown Court.

He also faces charges of unlawfully disposing of and concealing her body with intent to pervert the course of justice.

April was last seen near her home on the Bryn-y-Gog estate in the mid-Wales town of Machynlleth last Monday evening.

Bridger was arrested the following day, but the search for April goes on.