UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon admitted today that he had approved the plan to confirm the name of Government weapons expert David Kelly to journalists.

Geoff Hoon was present at a meeting where Britain's Ministry of Defence’s “naming strategy” over Dr David Kelly was discussed, his head of news said today.

THE British Ministry of Defence was yesterday accused of playing a lethal game of “Russian roulette” with Government weapons expert David Kelly.

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

The inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly was resuming today, with BBC director general Greg Dyke giving evidence for the first time.

Tony Blair today told of his concern that the British government “handle by the book” the emergence of a possible source for a controversial report on its Iraqi weapons dossier.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon launched a bid to save his political career yesterday, shifting blame for the Dr David Kelly row away from himself and the Government.

British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was preparing to fight for his political life today, at the inquiry into David Kelly’s death.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL considered secretly briefing a newspaper that the possible source of the BBC’s story on the Government’s Iraq weapons dossier had been uncovered.

Leading British civil servants are today telling what they know about events leading up to the death of Iraqi weapons expert Dr David Kelly.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair summoned crisis talks to discuss how the Government should handle the news that David Kelly may have leaked information to the media, the inquiry into the scientist's death heard today.

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 met Dr David Kelly’s widow today as Tony Blair flew back from the Far East to recriminations over the scientist’s suicide.

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.