The BNP is refusing to remove an album featuring forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn from its website.

The CD called The White Cliffs of Dover, which includes the singer's track of the same name, has not been produced by the BNP and was already in the public domain when it was stocked and sold through its merchandise arm Excalibur.

Dame Vera Lynn, from Ditchling, says she did not give permission for the right-wing party to sell the CD and has asked her solicitor to look in to the situation.

But a BNP spokeswoman, Donna Bailey, said: "We will not stop selling it.

"It's music that is nostalgic and of interest to our many elderly members and our many war veteran members.

"We have never suggested we have a political association with Dame Vera herself and we haven t spoken to her."

Another spokesman, Simon Darby, said: "She can complain but it is not going to do her any good.

"We have to raise money for the European election campaign and this CD is selling very well a lot of our members like reminiscing about the Second World War.

"I really don t see why we should take it down, but if she wants to provide us with a really good reason rather than a legal threat we might consider it."