As if the Downing Street Vs the BBC Celebrity Deathmatch wasn't bloody enough already, it's going to get bloodier still next week when the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes its report.

The Times claims the position of the reporter at the centre of the storm, Andrew Gilligan, is under threat.

Not so, according to Head of News Richard Sambrook in an e-mail which all of us in the department received this afternoon and which The Guardian carries a report on.

What do I think? I couldn't possibly comment.

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