Reporter Gilligan quits the BBC

Reporter Andrew Gilligan, whose Today programme report sparked the Hutton Inquiry, has resigned from the BBC, he said in a statement tonight.

Mr Gilligan conceded that some of his story on the intelligence dossier about Iraq weapons of mass destruction before the war, was wrong, adding: “I again apologise for it. My departure is at my own initiative. But the BBC collectively has been the victim of a grave injustice.”