British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was today labelled a liar and a hypocrite by the lawyer for the family of David Kelly as he launched a blistering attack on the Ministry of Defence.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL wanted to expose Government weapons expert David Kelly as the BBC’s source on the Iraq weapons dossier as he thought it would “f***” reporter Andrew’s Gilligan’s story, the Hutton Inquiry was told yesterday.

The widow of UK weapons expert David Kelly began her evidence at the inquiry into her husband’s death today.

The widow of British weapons expert David Kelly was set to break her public silence today over the death of her husband when she was due to give evidence to the Hutton Inquiry.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was today due to explain his role in events leading up to the apparent suicide of his government's weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

DOWNING Street communications chief Alastair Campbell yesterday acknowledged he had seen David Kelly as the key to resolving the British Government’s bitter battle with the BBC over the Iraq weapons dossier.

Tony Blair's spin doctor Alastair Campbell was today giving evidence to the inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death.

DOWNING STREET authorised a “substantial rewrite” of the British government’s Iraqi weapons dossier in the run-up to its publication, according to evidence presented yesterday to the inquiry into the death of the government scientist David Kelly.

DOWNING Street communications chief Alastair Campbell is to give evidence next week to the inquiry investigating the death of Government weapons scientist David Kelly, it was announced yesterday.

BRITISH Government weapons expert David Kelly was made to undergo a second grilling by Ministry of Defence managers over his contacts with a BBC journalist after the intervention of Prime Minister Tony Blair, the inquiry into his death heard yesterday.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw yesterday side-stepped a barrage of questions over the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday denied authorising the identification of David Kelly as the source for the BBC story that Downing Street "sexed up" the dossier on Iraq's weapons.

THE BBC’s credibility was questioned last night after Dr David Kelly was confirmed as the prime source for reports that intelligence on Iraq was “sexed up”.

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has demanded an apology from the BBC after Alastair Campbell and the rest of the British Government were cleared of political interference in the Iraq dossier row.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw demanded an apology from the BBC today after Alastair Campbell and the rest of the British government were cleared of political interference in the Iraq dossier row by Commons MPs.

FORMER British cabinet ministers Robin Cook and Clare Short said yesterday they were both told by MI6 in the run-up to the war with Iraq that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction did not pose any immediate threat.