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for Mosul underway, there will have to be some follow-through. So what

comes next? Join me on BBC "Insensitive" and "crass" -

the reasons given by two of Ukip's most senior officials in Liverpool

for quitting the party in the wake of the row over comments

made about Hillsborough. It leaves leader Paul Nuttall

in a fight between the party's grassroots members and one

of its richest backers. Paul Nuttall is taking a battering,

from his own corner. Just under three months

into leading his party, he's already been dealt a blow

by inaccurate comments on his website claiming he lost

close friends at Hillsborough. But then came tweets

by the influential Ukip donor Arron Banks, who wrote

that he was "sick to death" of hearing about

Hillsborough, adding, "milking a tragedy forever is sick,"

and, "It's about time people realised that sometimes life

is unfair and accidents happen." Tweets that made the party's most

senior official in Merseyside It's taken ten years

to build Ukip Liverpool up and it was destroyed in a matter

of a day or so by Arron Banks. So I thank you personally,

Arron Banks, for actually completely destroying the future of Ukip

in Liverpool and on Merseyside. The resignation was meant

as an apology to the people of Liverpool, who turned out

in their thousands to remember The crowds may have gone now,

but the sensitivity to comments about Hillsborough here in Liverpool

is just as raw, which is why this could be so damaging

for the party here. Listening to all that rubbish

when he's just touting for votes, it's absolutely scandalous

and he should resign. I think, from what I've heard

other people say about him, about his reaction to that,

I think it was genuine. It's difficult to see

a way back from this. The comments of Aaron Banks

about people milking the Hillsborough Disaster

are frankly disastrous Today's resignations are not a call

for Paul Nuttall to stand down. But it makes his position more

precarious as he tries to become an MP in Stoke-on-Trent

in just three days' time. Phil McCann,

BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool. A former school governor -

who's been accused of being part of a Muslim takeover plot

at a primary school in Oldham - Claims of a so-called Trojan horse

plot were made by the headteacher at Clarksfield Primary,

who says she's been Oldham Council says it's

investigated and found no evidence We weren't a part of

any kind of ploy or plot to take over the school,

to radicalise people, 2013, I left as a governor.

My children left in 2013. We removed the children,

we put them into faith schools, into Church of England faith

schools, and all our children go The Moors Murderer, Ian Brady,

has been refused permission to launch a High Court fight

to choose his own legal representation

at a mental health tribunal. from Ashworth Hospital

on Merseyside to a prison, where he would no

longer be force fed. After today's ruling,

Brady's solicitor said he will have no effective representation

before the tribunal. Police have been forced to close

a road near a shale gas drilling site in Lancashire after protests

by anti-fracking demonstrators. The activists chained themselves

to fencing at the site near Little Plumpton.

Some were arrested. Police say they had

to close Preston New Road. Campaigners say they'll carry

on trying to disrupt operations The firm says work has been

unaffected by today's protest. The Business Secretary,

Greg Clark, has told Ellesmere Port's MP,

Justin Madders, that he and the Prime Minister will do

all they can to protect jobs It was in response to a question

from Mr Madders about the possible takeover of the carmaker

by the French company Peugeot. Unions fear that could lead

to the closure of at least one of Vauxhall's UK factories

at either Ellesmere Port or Luton. The best of the BBC went

on show in Liverpool today. Delegates from around the world

came to the four-day event to buy up BBC programmes

and show to a worldwide audience. Here in Liverpool, buyers

from across the world, 700 of them, searching for the next

big global hit from the BBC. This is the largest

gathering of its kind. There appears to be an insatiable

appetite for British drama. Call The Midwife is one of

the BBC's best sellers globally. You have an abscess,

Mrs Williams, a serious infection

beneath your tooth... To promote the programme,

its star was returning home. For me, as an old Scouser,

coming back to something like, it's a lovely chance for me

to get nostalgic as well. A little bit of Jimmy,

a little Miles thrown in. Documentaries such as

Nile Rodgers: Lost In Music - to be shown on BBC Four in April -

were also being showcased. I hope that I'm trying to point

out the various "Aha!" moments that have happened

throughout my life and see -- if maybe the viewer can,

um, associate with that and say, "Oh, my god!

The same thing happened to me, "I just didn't realise that's

what it was, that was happening." I can't show you what buyers

are looking at, because some of the television programmes

have yet to be broadcast. What I can tell you is that

6,000 hours of television content Even though some of them will

be adapted to Chinese version, some of them can travel around China

without any, you know, differences. Today, the BBC announced

there will be a new seven-part series, the Blue Planet 2,

presented by Sir David Attenborough. So the challenge for us all the time

is we're trying to find the biggest audience possible for Great British

programming all around the world and, of course, audiences

want to review that programming BBC programmes are a major boost

for British exports. This showcase is

one way of making sure Yunus Mulla,

BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool. Now, what would Britain have

been like if the Germans It's a question asked in the latest

BBC Sunday night drama SS-GB. But according to local

tradition in Lancashire, Blackpool would have had

special status. Hitler, it's said,

had visited the resort He even ordered the Luftwaffe

to avoid it during bombing raids. Stuart Flinders

has been finding out. # Who do you think you

are kidding, Mr Hitler...?# What if Dad's Army

hadn't stopped the Germans? What if Hitler had goosestepped

his way to Blackpool? German pilots are said

to have used the Italian Gardens in Stanley Park -

formed in the shape of a compass - to help them find their way

back home after bombing But why didn't they obliterate

the resort itself? Could Hitler have

been protecting it? I think he saw it as the wonderful

place it is and it was for his people from Germany to come

and visit when this was part of the German Empire,

which it was going to be, was it? So this would be a kind

of recreation centre That's right, and for the Germans

themselves, never mind Blackpool was bombed during the war.

In fact, on one occasion, eight people lost their lives

just off Talbot Road. But relatively speaking,

the town did escape unscathed and, when it was all over,

this chapel was built in thanksgiving for

Blackpool's survival. But the real reason Blackpool

wasn't targetted, say historians, is that it simply wasn't

important enough in terms But what about the enticing idea

that Hitler himself visited Blackpool, strolled down the Prom,

enjoyed a stick of Blacpool rock? There's no evidence that Hitler

ever came to Britain. There is a myth, which says he came

to Liverpool in 1912, early 1913, but it's never been proven,

so it's one of those urban myths. Would the Germans have fallen

in love with Blackpool if they'd invaded?

Probably. Would they have braved the beach

on a chilly February day? Well, that requires

the true British spirit. Stuart Flinders,

BBC North West Tonight, Blackpool. GEORGE FORMBY: # ..me little

stick of Blackpool rock!# That is true British spirit on the

beach in February in Blackpool. I don't think many people would have

been brave enough to be on the beach today.

No, the heatwave didn't happen for us. Other parts of the country saw

18 degrees and good spells of sunshine but cloudy at outbreaks of

rain for us. It will be mailed for the next 24 hours, the wind will

pick up and temperatures will fall away and believe it or not we could

see some snow. Weather front after weather front the next few days, we

will see heavy rain and isobars tightly packed so the wind will be a

real feature. The rain from earlier has dropped size, so we should be

dry from here on, some breaks in the cloud cover, most of us are dry,

this rain too far side. For tomorrow, best weather around first

thing in the morning and even then not great, largely cloudy, the rain

working its way in mid afternoon, absolutely everywhere, wet end to

the day. The wind picks up, temperatures pretty good, 10-13, but

tomorrow night more of wet weather, temperatures stay up, all of the wet

weather is still around on Wednesday, we are not warning from

the Met Office yet but that could change, and brightening up across

Wednesday, sunshine in short supply, and the temperatures start to fall

away and going through Thursday we have the marriage of cold air, wet

weather, some snow in the forecast. And I leave you with the outlook

towards the weekend, things settle down once again. Good day.

As you have just seen, after a day in which some of you have been

shedding the layers, you will be putting them back on for the rest of

this week. Big changes ahead, all down to where the air has been

coming from. Today, it originated in the Caribbean, hence the name

tropical maritime air. Temperatures peaked at 18 degrees. But later this

week, the winds go to the north-west, a different source,

polar maritime air. Still over the sea, but from a colder place, so

temperatures will struggle. Bringing about that change, a strengthening

jet stream. At the moment, we still have tropical maritime air with us

across southern parts of the UK. With it, lots of cloud. Moisture