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Iraq inquiry 'may last into 2011'

The Iraq inquiry will be as open as possible, with hearings televised and online streaming, its chairman has said.

Launching the inquiry, Sir John Chilcot said the amount of material submitted meant he thought it was unlikely to end until late 2010 at the earliest.

Nicholas Witchell reports.

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