Firefighters tackled a giant blaze fuelled by 5,600 tons of rubber at the Port of Savannah in Georgia, USA, where a towering column of black smoke could be seen from miles away.

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.

INTELLIGENCE officials were so concerned about the British Government’s Iraqi weapons dossier some complained formally to their superiors, the inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly was told yesterday.