The BBC has apologised to the Queen for revealing she once personally raised concerns with the government about the inability to arrest Abu Hamza.

The Corporation's sent a letter to Buckingham Palace saying sorry, after Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reported details of a private conservation he'd had with Her Majesty about the radical Muslim cleric.

Hamza's expected to be extradited from Britain to the United States soon ... after the European Court of Human Rights yesterday rejected his final appeal.