Former Sun editor Stuart Higgins has said that he now thinks it was wrong of the paper to expose singer Chris de Burgh as a "love cheat" when he was editor in the 1990s.

In evidence submitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, Higgins - who was Sun editor from 1994 to 1998 - said: "I was very aware that a sex scandal, marriage split type story would sell very well the next day and in those days there was always an absolute rule that we would always give involved parties a right to reply."

Higgins notes that this is no longer the case because of the popularity of pre-publication privacy injunctions brought out to stop stories appearing.

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