26/03/2017 Look East

The Clacton MP Douglas Carswell hasn't ruled out trying to rejoin

the Conservative Party before the next General Election.

Mr Carswell announced yesterday he was resigning from Ukip,

Once again, Clacton finds itself in the full glare of the political

Courtesy of the resort's MP, Douglas Carswell.

In 2014, he defected from the Conservatives to

Now he's resigned from Ukip and become an independent MP.

This morning, in an interview with the

Sunday politics east, he didn't seem to rule

out trying to rejoin the

Go on, a straight answer here on local

Would you like to be the next Conservative candidate for

Fundamentally, it's not my choice, it is for local Conservative Party

members to make if I was to apply for the job.

You know, at the moment, I'm not inclined to do so.

Nigel Farage, who once campaigned for Mr Castle on the Clacton,

said the MP had jumped before he was pushed.

Some political analysts say in the east, Ukip is now in crisis.

They are really fighting like ferrets in

the sack and this is not a good thing if you want

Mr Carswell said a Clacton by-election isn't necessary because

he's not joining another party and now he's an independent MP, he said

he will be able to devote more time to his constituents.

Police say a 33-year-old man wanted on suspicion of murder,

robbery and possession of a firearm may be in Luton.

Officers want to question Andrew McVicar, from Basildon,

after a man died following a break-in in Essex.

He's described as dangerous, and should not be approached.

A report's revealed an air ambulance often flown by Prince William

narrowly avoided a mid-air crash with a drone.

UK Airprox Board investigators said the helicopter

used by the East Anglian Air Ambulance

missed the drone by chance over London in August.

Prince William was not in the aircraft at the time.

Researchers say more work is needed to understand the impact we're

having on dolphins and porpoises off the region's coast.

The waters of the southern North Sea are a hotspot

Harbour porpoises, a species rarely seen off the East Anglian coast.

The north sea is murky at the best of times,

but hidden outthere are

minke whale and in particular large numbers of harbour porpoise.

This is a hydrophone, it's essentially a

very sensitive underwater microphone.

It enables us to hear the sounds of whales and dolphins are

The Song of the Whales is a specialist research

The engine room is insulated to reduce background noise

Harbour porpoises are very difficult to see, even

They are very small, quite cryptic species.

This is where the Song of the Whale detected

harbour porpoises during a brief survey

of just a small part of the

Researchers say more work is now needed to understand the seasonal

movement of cetaceans and also the impact of human activity such

During the construction phase of wind farms

when there is a lot of piling activities from the towers being

placed, that knowledge can displace whales

longer term impact of that on the individuals,

They do move back into the area afterwards.

Researchers say cetaceans are a barometer of the

health of the wider marine ecosystem.

An environment we can't afford to ignore.

Football, and there were no games in the Championship this weekend

because of the internationals, but our teams in League One

Phil Brown celebrated four years as Southend manager

Nile Ranger scored his third in as many games with a

brilliant opener and Simon Cox doubled Southend's lead just after

They lie sixth in the play-off berth.

Peterborough are eight points behind Southend and

they kept their dwindling play-off hopes alive

Julian Marias came off the bench to score the winner

Matt Taylor's spot kick was well saved by Simon Eastwood.

Elsewhere, MK dons drew 0-0 at Port Vale.

In League Two, Colchester beat Luton 2-1, including two

goals for Chris Porter, who stunned Luton in the fourth

Isaac Vassel scored what proved to be a consolation.

Cambridge versus was a stop-start, goalless,

soulless affair as the U's lost ground in the hunt for automatic

They use are five short of the play-off gang.

Hello, the first day of British summertime and the weather didn't

Clear skies at first but, as the night wears on,

cloud developing with some patchy fog here and there.

Temperatures no lower than 4-5 Celsius.

There's a chilly start to the day tomorrow.

Bright, bit more cloud around than we had over the

weekend but that will tend to disperse and, come the afternoon,

There's more dry weather to come through Tuesday and Wednesday.

Some spells of sunshine with a small chance of some showers in the west.

For the first time this year, the temperature reached