For up-to-date and comprehensive reports on censorship in action in the UK, see D Taylor's excellent site
For a comprehensive listing of relevant laws and codes of practice in the UK and continental Europe, see the Media Know-How Fund (take the link to 'legal sources')

  Regulatory bodies and pressure groups (UK)

Advertising Standards Authority
BBC Charter
British Board of Film Classification
Broadcasting Complaints Commission
Broadcasting Standards Council
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Centre for Mass Communication Research
D-notice Committee
Glasgow University Media Group
Independent Television Commission
Media Monitoring Group
National Viewers' and Listeners' Association
Press Complaints Commission
Radio Authority

Acts of Parliament (UK)

Government guide to media regulation
Blasphemy
Broadcasting Act 1990
Cinemas Act 1985
Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937
Contempt of court
Copyright
Criminal Justice Act 1994
Defamation
European Union Legislation
Obscene Publications Act 1959
Official Secrets Act
Protection of Children Act 1978
Public Order (Northern Ireland) Order 1987
Public Order Act (Racial Hatred) 1986
Video Recordings Act 1984

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