Dire Straits star John Illsley desperately wants former bandmate Mark Knopfler to agree to reforming the group - because he'd "love to do" a comeback tour.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office did not doctor an intelligence report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in order to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, a lawmaker involved in an official probe said yesterday.

Alastair Campbell is set to be cleared by MPs of exaggerating intelligence on Iraq to justify war, it was revealed today.