STILL MORE DEVELOPMENTS on the BBC matter:

Lord Hutton revealed fresh evidence on Friday that suggests a clear conflict between accounts given by Andrew Gilligan, the BBC Today reporter, and by David Kelly, his main source.

The judge’s examination of the two men’s contradictory accounts of their meeting on May 22 at a London hotel will form a central element of his inquiry. . . .

While Mr Gilligan’s account of the meeting “in small part” matched his own recollection, its “overall character” was “quite different”, Mr Kelly claimed. His letter said he could “only conclude one of three things” – Mr Gilligan had “considerably embellished” what he had been told, or had met other people who “truly were intimately associated” with the dossier, or had “assembled comments from both multiple direct and indirect sources”.

If correct, this conclusion could prove very damaging for the BBC.

Stay, er, tuned.