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Suzanne Breen, northern editor of the Sunday Tribune, today won the right to withhold information on the Real IRA from the police after a judge in Belfast ruled that to hand it over would endanger her life.

Breen had been subject to a legal bid by Police Service of Northern Ireland chief constable Sir Hugh Orde, who wanted information on the murders of two British soldiers in March.