UK High Court ruling blocks BBC report

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Officials support High Court ruling to block BBC report

By Alan Cowell
Sunday, March 4, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/04/news/bbc.php

LONDON: Senior government officials rallied Sunday to support a High Court ruling that forbids the BBC, Britain's public service broadcaster, to transmit news about an alleged campaign finance scandal under investigation by the police.

But the BBC nudged its reporting of the proscribed story a little further, saying it related to an e-mail between two close confidants of Prime Minister Tony Blair. The details of the e-mail, the BBC said on its Web site (www.bbc.co.uk) "could have been central to the investigation into an alleged Downing Street cover-up" over the financing scandal.

For the past year, the police have been investigating accusations by Welsh and Scottish parliamentary legislators that major political parties traded seats in the prestigious House of Lords for donations and loans. The accusations have focused most recently on Blair's Labour Party as it sought to raise money to fight the 2005 general election, which it won with a reduced majority.

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