Blair signals truce as BBC boss bites bullet

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.

Prime Minister Tony Blair welcomed the apology and said the government could now “draw a line” under the whole episode.

His ex-communications director Alastair Campbell, the most tenacious critic of the BBC, also said he now accepted the affair was over, telling Five News: “I’m sad that it’s taken all this to get a situation where these allegations have finally been withdrawn.”