Reuters reports that
Sun gagged over funding probe email
Mon Mar 5, 2007 5:55 AM GMT15LONDON (Reuters) - The Sun has been blocked from publishing details of an email linked to a police probe into political party funding, the tabloid said on Monday, barely 48-hours after the BBC was similarly gagged.
Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith, acting on behalf of the police, obtained a court injunction on Sunday to prevent the daily from revealing the content of the email sent between two aides to Prime Minister Tony Blair, it said.
The censored email was also at the centre of a BBC report blocked by a court order on Friday, according to the Sun.
"Attorney general Lord Goldsmith last night authorised a government lawyer to contact us and seek a guarantee the information would not be made public," it said.
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman was unable to immediately confirm the report.
The BBC said on Saturday a story about the political funding scandal it was barred from running could have been central to police inquiries into a potential cover-up involving aides to Blair.
Will Scottish newspapers , which are not covered by these injunctions in English Courts, be used to leak this email, as has happened in the past ?
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