:00:20. > :00:23.The UK Independence Party's only MP, Douglas Carswell, has announced
:00:24. > :00:30.In a statement on his website Mr Carswell said
:00:31. > :00:33.that he was quitting the party in the knowledge that his goal
:00:34. > :00:35.of leaving the European Union had been achieved.
:00:36. > :00:37.He will now be sitting as an independent MP.
:00:38. > :00:42.Our Political Correspondent Matt Cole has the story.
:00:43. > :00:49.It all began so well for Douglas Carswell and Ukip, first he joined
:00:50. > :00:54.the party. I'm today leaving the Conservative Party and joining Ukip.
:00:55. > :01:02.Then in the by-election he called to refight his seat, he delivered them
:01:03. > :01:07.their first elected MP. UK Independence Party, Ukip 21,113.
:01:08. > :01:10.Whilst he succeeded in holding the constituency in 2015's general
:01:11. > :01:16.election, another party first, quickly soured. Shall we shake
:01:17. > :01:19.hands? Always known as a man of independent political thought, Mr
:01:20. > :01:24.Carswell soon seemed to struggle to walk hand-in-hand with his new party
:01:25. > :01:30.and its leader. Maybe you need a fresh faced approach sometimes. You
:01:31. > :01:35.need a fresh face and an optimistic message. We've got one person who
:01:36. > :01:39.happens to be an MP who consistently privately and publicly challenges my
:01:40. > :01:44.leadership. The answer is very simple - Mr Carswell put up or shut
:01:45. > :01:48.up. Even the common purpose of the EU referendum campaign saw key Ukip
:01:49. > :01:51.figures and Douglas Carswell taking different approaches to campaigning
:01:52. > :01:55.and whilst there was shared joy at the outcome, many in Ukip saw their
:01:56. > :01:59.only MP as a source of division who should quit the party. He is now
:02:00. > :02:03.doing that. Ukip says there should again be a by-election, but this
:02:04. > :02:07.time Mr Carswell disagrees. In his online blog he says, "As he is not
:02:08. > :02:10.recrossing the House of Commons floor, he doesn't need to put
:02:11. > :02:14.himself before voters once more." Article 50, the membering chaen ym
:02:15. > :02:18.for leaving the EU is set to be trigger on Wednesday and Mr Carswell
:02:19. > :02:21.is full of praise for Ukip's role in bringing that about, but since the
:02:22. > :02:25.referendum, there have been questions over the future purpose of
:02:26. > :02:26.Ukip, and their now ex-MP has decided whatever it is, it won't
:02:27. > :02:44.involve him. There are people in Ukip who are
:02:45. > :02:48.delighted he has left. Some say it would be more likely that the moon
:02:49. > :02:53.would be made of cheese than he would be a Tory. Losing an MP,
:02:54. > :02:59.despite getting four million votes in the general election in 2015,
:03:00. > :03:03.Ukip won't want to lose that and it is no surprise that we are hearing
:03:04. > :03:05.calls from Ukip that there should be a by-election. Douglas Carswell says
:03:06. > :03:09.this time because he is not crossing the House of Commons floor, because
:03:10. > :03:12.he's not changing political persuasion he doesn't think needs to
:03:13. > :03:16.be a by-election. I think Ukip as the hours progress from now, will be
:03:17. > :03:20.more and more insistent there should be one. Matt, thank you.
:03:21. > :03:23.A former head of the Metropolitan Police has called for changes
:03:24. > :03:27.to security at Westminster, following Wednesday's terror attack.
:03:28. > :03:30.The former Chief Constable Lord Blair said there should be a review
:03:31. > :03:33.Two men from Birmingham continue to be questioned by police
:03:34. > :03:40.Our correspondent Nick Beake reports.
:03:41. > :03:47.The scramble of armed police in the aftermath of the Westminster attack.
:03:48. > :03:52.New video taken by a taxi driver shows how marksmen swooped on
:03:53. > :03:56.Parliament from all directions. This footage shows medical equipment
:03:57. > :04:00.being thrown to those treating the unarmed PC Keith Palmer. But it was
:04:01. > :04:05.to know avail. Now, one former police chief in charge during the
:04:06. > :04:08.London bombings 12 years ago, believes security at Westminster
:04:09. > :04:14.needs to be tightened. I'm certain that there will be a review now of
:04:15. > :04:19.the kind of outer soft rim always behind it is the inner core of armed
:04:20. > :04:24.officers, but PC Keith Palmer has paid for his life for that soft
:04:25. > :04:28.outer rim and I think his family at least and everybody else needs the
:04:29. > :04:32.reassurance that that will be reviewed. The picture emerging of
:04:33. > :04:37.the killer, Khalid Masood, is confused. A man described by some as
:04:38. > :04:42.charming, also had a long history of violence. We know three minutes
:04:43. > :04:46.before he launched his deadly attack, he checked messages on his
:04:47. > :04:51.phone. Counter terror police will be desperate to know who he was last in
:04:52. > :04:54.contact with. The key question why did Khalid Masood strike at
:04:55. > :04:58.Westminster has still not been answered. It is not clear if someone
:04:59. > :05:05.radicalised him here in the UK while he was in Saudi Arabia or maybe
:05:06. > :05:10.during his three spells in prison. But senior Scotland Yard officers
:05:11. > :05:16.tell me they are more concerned about the risk of people being brain
:05:17. > :05:19.washed behind bars here than from Jihadis returning from abroad. 15
:05:20. > :05:27.people from the attack are still in hospital. Two of them critical. A
:05:28. > :05:31.website set up in memory of PC Keith Palmer has raised almost ?750,000.
:05:32. > :05:33.A 17-year-old has died after collapsing in the ring
:05:34. > :05:37.Eddie Bilbey, from Derbyshire, was competing in South Normanton
:05:38. > :05:46.European Union leaders have marked the 60th anniversary of the EU's
:05:47. > :05:48.founding treaty with a formal declaration promising
:05:49. > :05:51.The meeting comes four days before Theresa May,
:05:52. > :05:54.who is absent from the ceremony in Rome, is due to formally declare
:05:55. > :06:06.Damian Grammaticas reports from Rome.
:06:07. > :06:12.Signing their new declaration of unity, the leaders of every EU
:06:13. > :06:17.country were in Rome today except one, the UK on the point of
:06:18. > :06:24.triggering its exit. Just as the union marks its 60th birthday. It
:06:25. > :06:29.was founded in this very same room. 1957, Six Nations created an
:06:30. > :06:32.economic partnership. Today, it has vastly expanded, but emerging from
:06:33. > :06:36.an economic crisis and facing terrorism and refugees flows and
:06:37. > :06:40.Brexit. So 27 leaders struggled to fit into the same room. The Union
:06:41. > :06:47.has its own currency, a single market and even an anthem. The EU's
:06:48. > :06:51.leaders said it should not be forgotten that co-operation had
:06:52. > :06:56.brought peace and prosperity to a Continent they remembered from their
:06:57. > :07:03.childhoods being destroyed by war. It is a union that rose from the
:07:04. > :07:09.Ashes of two world wars, shaped by the hands and by the iron will of
:07:10. > :07:16.those that had returned from battlefields and concentration camps
:07:17. > :07:20.only a few years earlier. I was eight years when the community
:07:21. > :07:28.established a single council and a single commission through the
:07:29. > :07:33.treaty. The road I then took to school every day still through the
:07:34. > :07:40.ruins of the burned city. For me, the Second World War is not an
:07:41. > :07:47.obstruction. Outside supporters of the EU rallied
:07:48. > :07:52.on Rome's streets. This was one of the several events in the city, but
:07:53. > :07:57.just a few hundred turned out to it. The leaders' summit is in part about
:07:58. > :08:01.charting a new few fewer for the EU, responding to the challenges they
:08:02. > :08:05.face. But the crowds who've turned out aren't that big so the question
:08:06. > :08:10.they have to answer is how to rekindle enthusiasm for the project?
:08:11. > :08:11.With all the sport, here's Mike Bushell
:08:12. > :08:19.Formula One is back, and so is Lewis Hamilton,
:08:20. > :08:21.who dominated qualifying in Melbourne.
:08:22. > :08:25.The era of faster, more demanding cars got off to a promising start,
:08:26. > :08:31.as Hamilton claimed pole position at the Australian Grand Prix.
:08:32. > :08:34.It looks as though we could see a real battle between Mercedes
:08:35. > :08:36.Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel finished second, with Hamilton's
:08:37. > :08:42.new Mercedes team mate, Valtteri Bottas in third.
:08:43. > :08:46.Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will "shock a few people",
:08:47. > :08:48.once the UK anti-doping investigation into alleged
:08:49. > :08:52.They're looking into the delivery of a package to Wiggins before
:08:53. > :08:55.the 2011 Tour de France and speaking on Sky TV, Wiggins said
:08:56. > :08:58.the claims were, in his words, "the worst thing to be accused
:08:59. > :09:03.of for a man of my integrity" and promised he would have a lot to say.
:09:04. > :09:08.The Figure Skating World Championships begin
:09:09. > :09:12.next week in Helsinki, but Great Britain's ice dancing
:09:13. > :09:14.pair of Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland, won't be there.
:09:15. > :09:21.They've competed at two Winter Olympics, but a serious
:09:22. > :09:23.training accident for Coomes last summer put her skating
:09:24. > :09:27.Now, though, Coomes IS, back on the ice and targeting next
:09:28. > :09:32.David McDaid, has been following her recovery.
:09:33. > :09:38.After nine months and two operations, light at the end of the
:09:39. > :09:45.tunnel. It's nice that it's starting to feel normal. I don't have any
:09:46. > :09:48.pain anymore. Penny is half of Team's top GB figure skating pair,
:09:49. > :09:52.but their season and almost her career was written off last June
:09:53. > :09:56.after a fall in training. I broke nigh kneecap. I smashed it into
:09:57. > :09:59.eight pieces. It happened in a split secondment one minute we're laughing
:10:00. > :10:05.and giggling and fine and the next I'm on the floor screaming. They
:10:06. > :10:07.said it was a career ending injury. That I'd completely messed up my
:10:08. > :10:12.knee and I wouldn't have a normal knee and I wouldn't be able to walk
:10:13. > :10:19.properly. After months out, Penny is ready to step back on the ice. The
:10:20. > :10:24.fact that I feel it's going to be so good, I'm nervous that I'm wrong and
:10:25. > :10:31.what happens if I fall? After a few minutes the results in. I just feel
:10:32. > :10:35.like I got my leg back. Nine torturous months of pain over. I was
:10:36. > :10:39.miserable. I'd wake up in the night with almost like a deep ache I
:10:40. > :10:42.suppose. It took a while for me to kind of find myself again and find
:10:43. > :10:50.that strength and get back to where I need to be, mentally. When I can
:10:51. > :10:53.see Penny get back on the ice, it puts everything into prospective and
:10:54. > :10:56.we're going to move into the same direction towards the goal that
:10:57. > :11:02.we've had planned for a long time. And that common goal is getting to
:11:03. > :11:06.next year's Winter Olympics, a dream that had looked an impossibility. It
:11:07. > :11:10.just fills me with hope that I'm going to be able to do it and that
:11:11. > :11:15.that dream that I have hasn't diminished. It's there. I just need
:11:16. > :11:22.to work a little harder and I need a little bit more time, but I'm going
:11:23. > :11:26.to get there. So although absent from the World Championships next
:11:27. > :11:28.week, Coomes and Buckland are hopeful of starting on the
:11:29. > :11:31.billingest stage of all next February.
:11:32. > :11:33.You can watch the World Championships, on the BBC,
:11:34. > :11:38.from Thursday afternoon on the red button.
:11:39. > :11:40.And you can catch up, with all today's sport,
:11:41. > :11:46.on Sportsday at 6.30pm and 7.30pm on BBC News.
:11:47. > :11:52.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:11:53. > :11:54.The next news on BBC One is at 5.50pm.
:11:55. > :12:13.Good afternoon. This broadcast last two minutes, but
:12:14. > :12:14.it need only last