Information released by No 10 under freedom of information rules also showed the pair spoke on the day the Hutton report into the death of Dr David Kelly was published.
And I know that they, in turn, have been overwhelmed by the scale, skill, diligence and professionalism of the investigation which has brought about this conviction.
A lead French accident investigator probing the crash of an Air France jetliner says he is not optimistic that search efforts in the south Atlantic will produce the doomed plane's flight recorders.
Air crash investigators at the Paris-based BEA have been working on the theory that the speed sensors, known as pitot tubes or probes, malfunctioned because of ice at high altitude.
Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Your epidemiologists are on the spot to investigate rumours or facts and put the regional and head office on alert, or in a position to reassure the rest of the world.
There's nothing evil about surveys, but they can turn an inherently simple task, such as gathering customer feedback, into something complex and unwieldy.