BBC News with Jonathan Izard.

The two senior lawyers working for the British Foreign Office in the run-up to the Iraq war have told an official inquiry that they advised the government on a number of occasions that the invasion was illegal. The legal advisers, Sir Michael Wood and Elizabeth Wilmshurst, were speaking at an official inquiry into the conflict chaired by Sir John Chilcot. Peter Hunt reports.

These were two senior Foreign Office lawyers whose advice was clear, consistent and ultimately ignored. Sir Michael Wood, the Foreign Office's most senior legal adviser at the time, summed up his position in a statement submitted to the inquiry. It read "I considered the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law". "The process followed in this case was lamentable," Elizabeth Wilmshurst told the inquiry. She said Iraqi experts within the Foreign Office had warned that to go to war without a second UN resolution would be the nightmare scenario.

The American car manufacturer, General Motors, has confirmed that it's reached agreement to sell the Swedish firm, Saab. The new owner is Spyker Cars, a small Dutch manufacturer of luxury sports cars. GM put Saab on the market more than a year ago, but negotiations on earlier deals had fallen through. Nigel Cassidy reports.

The car industry has a long history of unlikely rescue bids, many of them ultimately unsuccessful. But this one must be the more for audacity. A tiny loss-making Dutch company that sold just 23 cars in the first six months of last year is to take on a carmaker that made and sold 90,000 cars in 2008. It's also succeeded doing a deal in the nick of time. Saab is in the process of being officially wound down, although the 3,500 workers in Sweden have yet to be laid off.