Pinewood Studios boss Michael Grade was today due to be named as the BBC’s new chairman, BBC News 24 reported.

JOURNALIST Andrew Gilligan, whose Today programme report sparked the Hutton Inquiry, resigned from the BBC last night.

Reporter Andrew Gilligan, whose Today programme report sparked the Hutton Inquiry, has resigned from the BBC, he said in a statement tonight.

With the BBC reeling from the resignations of its chairman and director general in the space of two days, an opinion poll today suggested the UK public feel the corporation was hard done by in the Hutton Report.

THE British government last night ended its war with the BBC over the Dr David Kelly affair after its director general quit and its acting chairman apologised “unreservedly” for the controversial Andrew Gilligan broadcast.

The BBC governors today thanked Director General Greg Dyke and former chairman Gavyn Davies for serving the public with “strong and dynamic” leadership.

The Hutton Report claimed its second BBC scalp today when director general Greg Dyke resigned.

THE BBC’s chairman of governors Gavyn Davies resigned last night after the Hutton report into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly severely criticised the corporation.

Lord Hutton’s damning criticism of the BBC could have serious implications for the Corporation’s charter renewal in 2006.

The BBC’s chairman of governors Gavyn Davies resigned tonight after Lord Hutton’s report into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly severely criticised the corporation.

BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies became the the first casualty of the Hutton Report today, according to the corporation’s own political editor.

BBC chairman Gavyn Davies returned to the witness box at the Hutton Inquiry today for the start of the last full day of evidence.

The British prime minister’s official spokesman Tom Kelly, who described Dr David Kelly as a “Walter Mitty” character, began his second stage of evidence to the Hutton Inquiry today.

UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon will be called back to give evidence under cross-examination to the Hutton Inquiry next Monday.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and Geoff Hoon were facing serious questions yesterday after Britain's leading suicide expert concluded that weapons expert David Kelly took his own life because he felt he had been "publicly disgraced."

REPORTER Andrew Gilligan may have increased the pressures on David Kelly by briefing MPs on how to question the weapons specialist at a committee hearing days before his death, the chairman of the BBC governors acknowledged yesterday.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called to give evidence on what he knew of the discussions and decisions that culminated in weapons expert Dr David Kelly slitting his wrist at an Oxfordshire beauty spot.

Plans to publish evidence given in secret by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan to the British Commons Foreign Affairs Committee have been postponed indefinitely, committee chairman Donald Anderson said today.

The BBC has a tape of the scientist Dr David Kelly expressing concern about the way Iraq weapons intelligence was presented, the corporation said yesterday.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has suffered huge political damage as a result of the death of an arms expert at the centre of a row over whether the government “sexed up” evidence on Iraq, a poll said yesterday.

BBC bosses faced calls to resign today after confirming Dr David Kelly as the prime source for reports that intelligence on Iraq was “sexed up”.

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”.

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

Lifestyle shows have had their day, BBC chiefs signalled today as they announced a makeover for schedules.

Lifestyle shows have had their day, BBC chiefs signalled today as they announced a makeover for schedules.

The Tories tonight called on the BBC to disclose what action it had taken to investigate claims by its senior foreign correspondent John Simpson that Downing Street had hacked into the Corporation’s computer.