April Jones: 2,500 calls to police over abduction of five-year-old The appeals for information in the case of missing schoolgirl April Jones has prompted some 2,500 calls from members of the public, police said tonight. The details provided by the callers had to be analysed and would be used to guide the search, Supt Ian John said. "They (the calls) all need to be answered and that's being done by all 44 police forces throughout the country who have worked together," he told a press conference in Machynlleth. All of the information that's coming through is being processed and analysed and that inevitably will lead to where we are searching. Supt John said he was "heartened" by the number of calls and praised the response by the public. There has been "outstanding cooperation" from people from all over the UK, he said. It quite takes you away really and it's quite a humbling experience. Support has come from local businesses, members of the public, and people from far and wide who have turned up with refreshments for the volunteers, he added. More than 400 volunteers have given their personal details to police and told them what specialist skills they can bring to the search effort. The search has covered "difficult terrain" in urban and rural environments and in "demanding weather conditions," Supt John said. He declined to comment on how many other lines of inquiry might be being pursued in the investigation. Police today began digging up paving stones at the home of Mark Bridger, the man being held over her abduction, as it emerged that Mr Bridger was seen driving through April's estate an hour before she went missing. Mr Bridger, 46, is being questioned for a third time by detectives in the hope that he can help them locate the missing five-year-old. April, who has cerebral palsy and irritable bowel syndrome and requires daily pain killers, has been missing since she was seen getting into a vehicle allegedly matching the description of Mr Bridger's Land Rover Discovery at 7pm on Monday. Police search teams were today continuing their search of Mount Pleasant, the cottage Mr Bridger had been renting for the past few weeks in the hamlet of Ceinws, a few miles north of April's home town of Machynlleth. Officers lifted paving slabs around the cottage and searched the banks of a river tributary which runs a matter of yards from the cottage. On the night April went missing Mr Bridger was seen driving his Land Rover through the Bryn-y-Gog estate, where April lives. April's mother Coral broke down at a press conference yesterday