AN unrepentant Tony Blair has said he has “no regrets” about removing Saddam Hussein and joining the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing yesterday before a panel investigating the war that the September 11, 2001, attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.

Tony Blair today rejected claims that he struck a private deal with President George Bush over Iraq 11 months before the invasion.

Tony Blair arrived early for his highly-anticipated appearance at the Iraq Inquiry today as he prepared to be grilled on why he took Britain to war.

One of Tony Blair's closest advisers will be grilled by the Iraq Inquiry today as it starts a week of evidence sessions dominated by key political figures.

Tony Blair sent George Bush secret messages in the year before the invasion of Iraq assuring him Britain would “be there” if it came to military action, the inquiry into the war heard today.

TONY BLAIR deliberately conflated the threats from Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida following the 9/11 attacks, an Iraq War inquiry was told yesterday.

Tony Blair and George Bush may have agreed the need for regime change in Iraq in private discussions at the US president's ranch, the Iraq Inquiry has heard.

Tony Blair deliberately combined the threats from Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida following the 9/11 attacks, the official inquiry into the Iraq War was told today.

THE father of a man who died in an area blighted by suicides told a public debate yesterday of the “stress and heartache” he suffered by repeatedly seeing his son’s photograph in the press.

A CHARITY founder said Kate McCann faced an uphill struggle in her attempt to improve how police across Europe respond to reports of missing children.

Britain must lobby hard to ensure that its views are considered in any change in Washington’s Iraq policy after the Republicans’ poll defeat, a former ambassador to the US said today.

The News of the World’s royal editor will appear in court next week in connection with a string of offences after being questioned over alleged mobile phone hacking.

Britain and the US might have been able to avert much of the international discord over the Iraq war if they had planned to fight it in the autumn of 2003 instead of the spring, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington said today.

President George Bush and Tony Blair are looking to show a united front on Iraq today, hoping to boost public support and bolster a wobbly military coalition.

FIVE men were cleared yesterday of plotting to kidnap Victoria Beckham and ransom her for £5 million.

UN voting on a second resolution on war with Iraq could take place tomorrow.

Steven Spielberg has became the newest honorary knight of the British Empire.