You thought the UK papers were sensational in their approach – try this one from Australia

Fairfax Media has apologised for live streaming the funeral of Sydney siege victim Katrina Dawson, despite a family request to broadcasters and publishers not to do so.

Mumbrella understands there were a number of rules for press coverage of the funeral including not broadcasting today’s service. The rules included no live broadcast of the service, not approaching attendees and no images of any children to be published in any use of the footage.

A Fairfax spokesperson has apologised for the mistake and said they were not aware of the family’s request.

“It seems that Katrina Dawson’s family representative advised broadcasters this morning that they were not to live stream, but did not inform us,” said the spokesman.

“It was not stipulated in the original advice on the service arrangements. We removed the live stream as soon as we became aware the family did not want any live streaming of the service. We are sorry for any upset this may have caused.”