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Fri 08 Aug 2003BBC agrees reporter may have increased pressure on KellyBBC reporter Andrew Gilligan may have increased the pressures on David Kelly by briefing MPs on how to question the weapons specialist at a committee hearing days before his death, the chairman of the BBC governors has acknowledged.Mr Gavyn Davies told the Hutton inquiry in London yesteray that Mr Gilligan had been wrong to send members of the Foreign Affairs Committee an e-mail revealing that Dr Kelly had been the source for a second BBC story, by the Newsnight journalist Susan Watts.