The Guardian: The article Andrew Gilligan wrote for the Mail on Sunday, in which the BBC reporter first named Alastair Campbell in relation to the government's September dossier on Iraq's weapons, was not vetted by BBC editors.

In this afternoon's hearing of the Hutton inquiry, Gilligan again flatly denied that he had brought up Mr Campbell's name first in his conversation with David Kelly, the weapons inspector who apparently killed himself last month.

The BBC Radio 4 Today programme defence correspondent also admitted his first Today report, broadcast at 6.07am on May 29, was not "perfect" - this is the first time the BBC has admitted it may have made a mistake at some point.

Twice the inquiry heard how BBC bosses had misgivings about the "loose language" in Gilligan's report and the fact he had a "lack of notes" of his meeting with the government scientist.