TONY BLAIR, making his second appearance before the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry, arrived yesterday looking tense, drawn and even worried, as he nervously fingered an impressive-looking red dossier on the table in front of him.

IN THE end it took less than his famous “45 minutes” for Tony Blair to crack and confess to the Iraq Inquiry that he had got it wrong.

Former British defence secretary Geoff Hoon disclosed today that he had feared the armed forces would struggle to cope with commitment of a full-scale land force to Iraq.

The British family caught in the Moscow hostage crisis has been finally reunited after their son was released from hospital overnight.