:00:00. > 3:59:59for Mosul underway, there will have to be some follow-through. So what
:00:00. > :00:12.comes next? Join me on BBC "Insensitive" and "crass" -
:00:13. > :00:17.the reasons given by two of Ukip's most senior officials in Liverpool
:00:18. > :00:20.for quitting the party in the wake of the row over comments
:00:21. > :00:23.made about Hillsborough. It leaves leader Paul Nuttall
:00:24. > :00:27.in a fight between the party's grassroots members and one
:00:28. > :00:29.of its richest backers. Paul Nuttall is taking a battering,
:00:30. > :00:33.from his own corner. Just under three months
:00:34. > :00:37.into leading his party, he's already been dealt a blow
:00:38. > :00:39.by inaccurate comments on his website claiming he lost
:00:40. > :00:43.close friends at Hillsborough. But then came tweets
:00:44. > :00:46.by the influential Ukip donor Arron Banks, who wrote
:00:47. > :00:49.that he was "sick to death" of hearing about
:00:50. > :00:52.Hillsborough, adding, "milking a tragedy forever is sick,"
:00:53. > :00:55.and, "It's about time people realised that sometimes life
:00:56. > :01:02.is unfair and accidents happen." Tweets that made the party's most
:01:03. > :01:05.senior official in Merseyside It's taken ten years
:01:06. > :01:08.to build Ukip Liverpool up and it was destroyed in a matter
:01:09. > :01:12.of a day or so by Arron Banks. So I thank you personally,
:01:13. > :01:14.Arron Banks, for actually completely destroying the future of Ukip
:01:15. > :01:22.in Liverpool and on Merseyside. The resignation was meant
:01:23. > :01:26.as an apology to the people of Liverpool, who turned out
:01:27. > :01:28.in their thousands to remember The crowds may have gone now,
:01:29. > :01:39.but the sensitivity to comments about Hillsborough here in Liverpool
:01:40. > :01:42.is just as raw, which is why this could be so damaging
:01:43. > :01:47.for the party here. Listening to all that rubbish
:01:48. > :01:50.when he's just touting for votes, it's absolutely scandalous
:01:51. > :01:55.and he should resign. I think, from what I've heard
:01:56. > :02:00.other people say about him, about his reaction to that,
:02:01. > :02:04.I think it was genuine. It's difficult to see
:02:05. > :02:08.a way back from this. The comments of Aaron Banks
:02:09. > :02:10.about people milking the Hillsborough Disaster
:02:11. > :02:11.are frankly disastrous Today's resignations are not a call
:02:12. > :02:18.for Paul Nuttall to stand down. But it makes his position more
:02:19. > :02:21.precarious as he tries to become an MP in Stoke-on-Trent
:02:22. > :02:24.in just three days' time. Phil McCann,
:02:25. > :02:29.BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool. A former school governor -
:02:30. > :02:32.who's been accused of being part of a Muslim takeover plot
:02:33. > :02:35.at a primary school in Oldham - Claims of a so-called Trojan horse
:02:36. > :02:40.plot were made by the headteacher at Clarksfield Primary,
:02:41. > :02:42.who says she's been Oldham Council says it's
:02:43. > :02:47.investigated and found no evidence We weren't a part of
:02:48. > :02:52.any kind of ploy or plot to take over the school,
:02:53. > :02:54.to radicalise people, 2013, I left as a governor.
:02:55. > :03:01.My children left in 2013. We removed the children,
:03:02. > :03:05.we put them into faith schools, into Church of England faith
:03:06. > :03:07.schools, and all our children go The Moors Murderer, Ian Brady,
:03:08. > :03:14.has been refused permission to launch a High Court fight
:03:15. > :03:17.to choose his own legal representation
:03:18. > :03:20.at a mental health tribunal. from Ashworth Hospital
:03:21. > :03:24.on Merseyside to a prison, where he would no
:03:25. > :03:27.longer be force fed. After today's ruling,
:03:28. > :03:30.Brady's solicitor said he will have no effective representation
:03:31. > :03:33.before the tribunal. Police have been forced to close
:03:34. > :03:36.a road near a shale gas drilling site in Lancashire after protests
:03:37. > :03:40.by anti-fracking demonstrators. The activists chained themselves
:03:41. > :03:43.to fencing at the site near Little Plumpton.
:03:44. > :03:46.Some were arrested. Police say they had
:03:47. > :03:48.to close Preston New Road. Campaigners say they'll carry
:03:49. > :03:50.on trying to disrupt operations The firm says work has been
:03:51. > :03:57.unaffected by today's protest. The Business Secretary,
:03:58. > :03:59.Greg Clark, has told Ellesmere Port's MP,
:04:00. > :04:02.Justin Madders, that he and the Prime Minister will do
:04:03. > :04:05.all they can to protect jobs It was in response to a question
:04:06. > :04:10.from Mr Madders about the possible takeover of the carmaker
:04:11. > :04:13.by the French company Peugeot. Unions fear that could lead
:04:14. > :04:16.to the closure of at least one of Vauxhall's UK factories
:04:17. > :04:22.at either Ellesmere Port or Luton. The best of the BBC went
:04:23. > :04:25.on show in Liverpool today. Delegates from around the world
:04:26. > :04:27.came to the four-day event to buy up BBC programmes
:04:28. > :04:31.and show to a worldwide audience. Here in Liverpool, buyers
:04:32. > :04:39.from across the world, 700 of them, searching for the next
:04:40. > :04:45.big global hit from the BBC. This is the largest
:04:46. > :04:52.gathering of its kind. There appears to be an insatiable
:04:53. > :04:55.appetite for British drama. Call The Midwife is one of
:04:56. > :05:00.the BBC's best sellers globally. You have an abscess,
:05:01. > :05:02.Mrs Williams, a serious infection
:05:03. > :05:05.beneath your tooth... To promote the programme,
:05:06. > :05:09.its star was returning home. For me, as an old Scouser,
:05:10. > :05:12.coming back to something like, it's a lovely chance for me
:05:13. > :05:20.to get nostalgic as well. A little bit of Jimmy,
:05:21. > :05:23.a little Miles thrown in. Documentaries such as
:05:24. > :05:29.Nile Rodgers: Lost In Music - to be shown on BBC Four in April -
:05:30. > :05:34.were also being showcased. I hope that I'm trying to point
:05:35. > :05:39.out the various "Aha!" moments that have happened
:05:40. > :05:41.throughout my life and see -- if maybe the viewer can,
:05:42. > :05:50.um, associate with that and say, "Oh, my god!
:05:51. > :05:52.The same thing happened to me, "I just didn't realise that's
:05:53. > :05:55.what it was, that was happening." I can't show you what buyers
:05:56. > :05:58.are looking at, because some of the television programmes
:05:59. > :06:00.have yet to be broadcast. What I can tell you is that
:06:01. > :06:03.6,000 hours of television content Even though some of them will
:06:04. > :06:09.be adapted to Chinese version, some of them can travel around China
:06:10. > :06:17.without any, you know, differences. Today, the BBC announced
:06:18. > :06:21.there will be a new seven-part series, the Blue Planet 2,
:06:22. > :06:26.presented by Sir David Attenborough. So the challenge for us all the time
:06:27. > :06:30.is we're trying to find the biggest audience possible for Great British
:06:31. > :06:32.programming all around the world and, of course, audiences
:06:33. > :06:34.want to review that programming BBC programmes are a major boost
:06:35. > :06:40.for British exports. This showcase is
:06:41. > :06:43.one way of making sure Yunus Mulla,
:06:44. > :06:53.BBC North West Tonight, Liverpool. Now, what would Britain have
:06:54. > :06:55.been like if the Germans It's a question asked in the latest
:06:56. > :07:01.BBC Sunday night drama SS-GB. But according to local
:07:02. > :07:03.tradition in Lancashire, Blackpool would have had
:07:04. > :07:04.special status. Hitler, it's said,
:07:05. > :07:06.had visited the resort He even ordered the Luftwaffe
:07:07. > :07:12.to avoid it during bombing raids. Stuart Flinders
:07:13. > :07:17.has been finding out. # Who do you think you
:07:18. > :07:22.are kidding, Mr Hitler...?# What if Dad's Army
:07:23. > :07:25.hadn't stopped the Germans? What if Hitler had goosestepped
:07:26. > :07:29.his way to Blackpool? German pilots are said
:07:30. > :07:31.to have used the Italian Gardens in Stanley Park -
:07:32. > :07:35.formed in the shape of a compass - to help them find their way
:07:36. > :07:38.back home after bombing But why didn't they obliterate
:07:39. > :07:42.the resort itself? Could Hitler have
:07:43. > :07:46.been protecting it? I think he saw it as the wonderful
:07:47. > :07:50.place it is and it was for his people from Germany to come
:07:51. > :07:53.and visit when this was part of the German Empire,
:07:54. > :07:56.which it was going to be, was it? So this would be a kind
:07:57. > :07:58.of recreation centre That's right, and for the Germans
:07:59. > :08:01.themselves, never mind Blackpool was bombed during the war.
:08:02. > :08:07.In fact, on one occasion, eight people lost their lives
:08:08. > :08:12.just off Talbot Road. But relatively speaking,
:08:13. > :08:15.the town did escape unscathed and, when it was all over,
:08:16. > :08:18.this chapel was built in thanksgiving for
:08:19. > :08:25.Blackpool's survival. But the real reason Blackpool
:08:26. > :08:28.wasn't targetted, say historians, is that it simply wasn't
:08:29. > :08:30.important enough in terms But what about the enticing idea
:08:31. > :08:36.that Hitler himself visited Blackpool, strolled down the Prom,
:08:37. > :08:41.enjoyed a stick of Blacpool rock? There's no evidence that Hitler
:08:42. > :08:46.ever came to Britain. There is a myth, which says he came
:08:47. > :08:50.to Liverpool in 1912, early 1913, but it's never been proven,
:08:51. > :08:56.so it's one of those urban myths. Would the Germans have fallen
:08:57. > :08:59.in love with Blackpool if they'd invaded?
:09:00. > :09:02.Probably. Would they have braved the beach
:09:03. > :09:05.on a chilly February day? Well, that requires
:09:06. > :09:08.the true British spirit. Stuart Flinders,
:09:09. > :09:10.BBC North West Tonight, Blackpool. GEORGE FORMBY: # ..me little
:09:11. > :09:25.stick of Blackpool rock!# That is true British spirit on the
:09:26. > :09:29.beach in February in Blackpool. I don't think many people would have
:09:30. > :09:32.been brave enough to be on the beach today.
:09:33. > :09:38.No, the heatwave didn't happen for us. Other parts of the country saw
:09:39. > :09:42.18 degrees and good spells of sunshine but cloudy at outbreaks of
:09:43. > :09:46.rain for us. It will be mailed for the next 24 hours, the wind will
:09:47. > :09:50.pick up and temperatures will fall away and believe it or not we could
:09:51. > :09:56.see some snow. Weather front after weather front the next few days, we
:09:57. > :10:01.will see heavy rain and isobars tightly packed so the wind will be a
:10:02. > :10:07.real feature. The rain from earlier has dropped size, so we should be
:10:08. > :10:14.dry from here on, some breaks in the cloud cover, most of us are dry,
:10:15. > :10:18.this rain too far side. For tomorrow, best weather around first
:10:19. > :10:23.thing in the morning and even then not great, largely cloudy, the rain
:10:24. > :10:27.working its way in mid afternoon, absolutely everywhere, wet end to
:10:28. > :10:34.the day. The wind picks up, temperatures pretty good, 10-13, but
:10:35. > :10:38.tomorrow night more of wet weather, temperatures stay up, all of the wet
:10:39. > :10:45.weather is still around on Wednesday, we are not warning from
:10:46. > :10:49.the Met Office yet but that could change, and brightening up across
:10:50. > :10:53.Wednesday, sunshine in short supply, and the temperatures start to fall
:10:54. > :10:58.away and going through Thursday we have the marriage of cold air, wet
:10:59. > :11:01.weather, some snow in the forecast. And I leave you with the outlook
:11:02. > :11:03.towards the weekend, things settle down once again. Good day.
:11:04. > :11:14.As you have just seen, after a day in which some of you have been
:11:15. > :11:17.shedding the layers, you will be putting them back on for the rest of
:11:18. > :11:21.this week. Big changes ahead, all down to where the air has been
:11:22. > :11:26.coming from. Today, it originated in the Caribbean, hence the name
:11:27. > :11:30.tropical maritime air. Temperatures peaked at 18 degrees. But later this
:11:31. > :11:36.week, the winds go to the north-west, a different source,
:11:37. > :11:39.polar maritime air. Still over the sea, but from a colder place, so
:11:40. > :11:45.temperatures will struggle. Bringing about that change, a strengthening
:11:46. > :11:48.jet stream. At the moment, we still have tropical maritime air with us
:11:49. > :11:51.across southern parts of the UK. With it, lots of cloud. Moisture