In September the Department for Education abandoned the controversial legal case it had been fighting to try to establish that emails sent by ministers on personal email accounts were not covered by the Freedom of Information Act.

BBC: Department for Education

He said he did not regret that the email at the centre of the controversy had been sent.

BBC: Derrick Murphy

Mostly everyone has either sent or received an email in which the content somehow did not fully convey the point intended.

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The figure has been circulated in an email, but it is not clear yet if a formal letter has been sent to the families.

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It's not very often he runs his mouth publicly, but between the email he sent out about Dell and his sit down with Newsweek, Steve's definitely on a roll.

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"We came close, but we were not able to reach a deal, " he said in an email sent at 3:03 a.m. to the city labor-relations commissioner and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

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An email sent to a senior aide by the Daily Telegraph shortly before the 2010 election setting out detailed allegations had not been "passed on to me".

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