he would had ice cream and he said he would make a very good candidate if he was picked. but he also met local members of ukip and they told him that yes, they appreciated his support and in particular his offer to bring finance into the campaign, but they said they did have a local candidate already chosen, someone lined up, who was quite well—known in the area, and this seems to have influenced aaron banks decision. he has said in a statement that he has no intention of standing in the way of hard—working no intention of standing in the way of ha rd—working activists no intention of standing in the way of hard—working activists who are the soul of the party. so himself and nigel farage will be campaigning ha rd and nigel farage will be campaigning hard in clacton and he has agreed to give the local party financial assistance to fight the election. aaron banks will not be standing in this election, but he will have a presence in the background, in the cla cton presence in the background, in the clacton election campaign. to be clear, the local party did not want him. when i spoke to them a few hours ago, when i was in clacton, they were very tall between really

wanting his money and really wanting the exposure they would get from having a high—profile candidate —— very torn. this was a party that became divided in 2014 when douglas ca rswell defected to ukip became divided in 2014 when douglas carswell defected to ukip because they already had a strong local party in clacton and they had a candidate ready to fight the general election in 2015 and he was moved to the side in favour of douglas ca rswell the side in favour of douglas carswell who had defected from the conservatives and that divided ukip. the wounds that caused in clacton have taken a long time to heal and i just think the party was really torn between wanting every bank ‘s money and support but also they did not wa nt to and support but also they did not want to divide their party —— wanting aaron banks. tonight they had got the best of both worlds, his support and money. douglas carswell has left a bitter taste in some ounce of some ukip supporters, but he isa ounce of some ukip supporters, but he is a good local constituency mp.

—— in some mouths. the ukip think they can topple him as an independent? douglas carswell is not standing as an independent and he said last week he would not be fighting the selection and so that is out of the picture, he said he would be asking his supporters to vote conservative and that has given the conservatives locally a bit of a spring in their step. the conservatives locally a bit of a spring in theirstep. ukip the conservatives locally a bit of a spring in their step. ukip say they have a strong chance, they believe, that douglas carswell did well in the 2014 a by—election and the 2015 general election because he was ukip and they point to the referendum result where ukip recorded one of the biggest leave votes in the whole country. ukip think they still have a chance. with douglas carswell out of the way they think that might make their chance bit better but he is telling his supporters to vote conservative. the police in northern ireland have said a bomb left outside a primary

school in belfast had the potential to cause widespread carnage. the device was found outside holy cross school in the north of the city. 20 families had to be evacuated from their homes while the army dealt with the bomb. dan stanton reports. just a day ago this was left outside the school gates, amply spam the device after they were following suspicious activity late on saturday night —— police were alerted to the device. it shocked and horrified me to the core, they could have been a loss of life, significant damage to the building. —— there could. the school should be a safe environment for children, and for parents to know that their children are safe and secure. police said they believed the bomb was to sign to kill police officers. and that dissident republicans were responsible. a significant device, sizeable, and if it had exploded we believe it would have killed anybody in the immediate area. most

definitely it would have caused potential danger or injury to people over a wider area so it was a significant size device and we believe it was focused on people who would have been walking in the area and primarily police officers on foot patrol. 20 homes nearby were evacuated in the early hours of sunday morning. with the people living inside offered temporary accommodation at the holycross church's community centre nearby. the pupils have finished their first day back after the easter holidays and parents who did not want to be interviewed said the day went well, and they also said they hoped they would be no repeat what happened at the weekend. the rolling countryside of the salisbury plain and the battlefields of the somme, may not, at first glance, have much in common. but a new discovery by the ministry of the defence suggests that the two sites are intrinsically linked. archaeologists uncovered what is believed to be the biggest

complex of military training trenches and tunnels found anywhere in the world. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy reports. larkhill, a building site today, but home to an army secret from a century ago. this is the extraordinary system of tunnels and trenches unearthed by developers. built in 1917 to recreate an entire battlefield, this was the somme on salisbury plain. this was a listening post. archaeologists say this was as close as it came to warfare for troops headed to the real front line. the conditions here were horrendous. they were using live ammunition. they were training 24 hours a day on occasions in some pretty hideous conditions, particularly in ‘16 and ‘17 when the brutal winter hit them. and this was the brutality of the first world war. the training tunnels and trenches were designed to recreate. thousands of troops passed through larkhill to get a taste of conflict. dozens were killed through

accidents and exposure. special computer mapping shows the extent of the tunnels and trenches, the largest system of its kind anywhere in britain. in fact, they found around eight kilometres of tunnels and trenches here. the emphasis across the whole landscape was realism, right down to digging out the chalk, the same kind of rock they encountered at the battle of the somme. some soldiers left their mark on the walls here before they headed to france. two sides facing off across no man's land... historians say military commanders learned from earlier mistakes that training was vital. if they were taking guys who were no more soldiers than you and i and put them into an unfamiliar environment, they have to learn how to live in it, fight in it, survive in it, repair it, build it, eat, drink, live, sleep. 450 homes will soon be built here for troops returning from germany,

but many tunnels and trenches with the wooden struts still intact, will be preserved. world war i, from wiltshire to the western front. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in larkhill. norwegian scientists have a new theory, explaining the inspiration behind one of the most famous works of art ever produced. the scream by edvard munch, depicts a figure holding their face while making an agonised expression. but look above the individual and the sky is full of colourful lines. the researchers say this pattern is almost certainly a depiction of a very rare type of cloud. the team made their case for this interpretation at the meeting of the european geosciences union in vienna, from where our correspondent jonathan amos joins me. this is a really interesting theory. just explain the reasoning behind it. everybody loves the scream, even

if you know nothing about art, you know the scream. it has the amazing scene and the hands around the face. the pained expression. 0ne scene and the hands around the face. the pained expression. one of a series of pictures that edvard munch produced over a couple of decades. 0ne sold recently for $120 million and that is how famous it is. you see the wavy lines behind, some scientists said we know what that is, that is volcanic emissions, there was a volcano to news before he started work on the scream and that would have put stuff in the atmosphere that would have produced spectacular sunsets. norwegian scientists have said, actually, we have seen those clouds above norway. they regretted the type of cloud, by called mother—of—pearl, and they stem from very tiny particles of ice which are produced in very cold

atmospheres, in polar skies, they can bounce the light and refracted and produce amazing colours and patterns and that is what they say is the real inspiration here. remarkable. looking at those clouds and the pictures of the colours, they do look very much like what you see in the picture and those colours actually morph into the figure and the background. i think that is the thing. when you put the scream next toa thing. when you put the scream next to a photograph of these mother—of—pearl clouds, it is uncanny. it really does look as though that is what is in the background. because they are so rare, edvard munch might have spent a good deal of this life and never seen a good deal of this life and never seen them. one scientist said he has been living in oslo 25 years and he has only ever seen them once. so if you did catch sight of them in the sky they would have amazed and so maybe they really the inspiration.

jonathan, thanks for joining maybe they really the inspiration. jonathan, thanks forjoining us. a 101—year—old woman has won the 100 metres sprint at the world masters games in new zealand. mann kaur who is from india, completed the race in one minute and 14 seconds. she was guaranteed victory as the only participant in the hundred—years—and—over category at the event in auckland. she celebrated with a victory dance. she only took up running eight years ago, at the age of 93, and has so far won 17 gold medals. time for a look at the weather. it felt like we went into the middle of winter, for some of us today. there was lying snow in aberdeen. cold air is filtering in behind this

line of cloud which will go south and the cold air will continue to follow. you can trace the ice bars along way north. —— isobars. the cold air filters across all parts in the next day or so. we have a pretty cold night tonight and there will be a widespread frost and we have a further set of wintry showers in the mix, as well. maybe some in north wales and the midlands, but for many the skies will be clear and if the arctic air is in place the temperatures will be giving away, 2-3, temperatures will be giving away, 2—3, and even lower than that in rural areas, a widespread frost to start the day. in northern scotland the wintry showers will be going into the morning, most of the snow over higher ground, but some of it down to lower levels at times. actually, plenty of sunshine for many of places, but it is cold. 3—4,

and it is windy, so a cold start of the day, but at least there is some sunshine. around the eastern coasts there's the chance of some wintry showers which could be over higher ground. if you start with sunshine, make the most of it, because showers will develop quite widely and some of those will be heavy, with higham and bond. temperatures, between 6-13, but it and bond. temperatures, between 6—13, but it will feel colder than that —— with hail and founder. there will be some strong gusty downpours and it could feel freezing in those showers. further west you have the blue tinge which is the frost developing once again, so a cold start to the day on wednesday again. and frost in more rural areas in particular. wednesday, some sunshine, and again there's a good chance of some showers, and that could be a bit wintry over higher ground in the south and east.

towards the end of the week, temperatures rising a little bit, as the westerly winds develop. this is bbc news. i'm clive myrie. the headlines at eight... france's president, francois hollande, has called on voters to back emmanuel macron in the second round of the presidential election. he says support for the far right puts the country at risk. jeremy corbyn says only labour can defeat the conservatives as he takes his campaign to scotland. 0nly so the tories can form a government. i am 0nly so the tories can form a government. iam poor 0nly so the tories can form a government. i am poor people in scotla nd government. i am poor people in scotland to vote for the party of progress and not a vicious tory party. —— only the labour party or the tories. trributes have been paid to the former royal naval officer run down by his own car as manchester police question a man over the killing. a new campaign to highlight the plight of dementia patients as the alzheimer's society says more than a million people will have the condition by 2021.