The Times analyses the close links that the BBC has to Westminster through the personal relationships of its staff or past jobs.

The BBC's high-profile chairman, Labour donor Gavyn Davies, is married to Sue Nye who is political secretary to Gordon Brown.

Number 10 special advisor Roger Liddle is married to Caroline Thompson, head of policy at the BBC.

Bill Bush - Tessa Jowell's special adviser at the DCMS - is formerly the BBC's elections chief.

And John Maples, the member of the foreign affairs select committee, is married to BBC journalist Jane Corbin.

Today's Guardian reports that the corporation's governors "will need scalps" if Andrew Gilligan's story is undermined by the Hutton report.