A full list of British National Party members was removed from an internet blog today after complaints by the far right group.

The list of 12,000 names included 68 members from Gloucestershire. However, their names cannot be revealed due to an injunction obtained by the far-right party.

The BNP's spokesman Simon Darby said they had contacted bosses at a company involved with the blog to warn them of the consequences if it was not taken down.

He said: "We made representations to the offices of the company involved, stating the implications of what was happening and it seems to have worked."

The list of more than 12,000 names included addresses and contact details, as well as members' jobs.

Some were listed as former police officers and members of the armed forces.

According to the BNP, the published list is based on its 2007 membership list although a number of names of people who were not, or are not, party members had allegedly been added.

Earlier this year, the party said it obtained an injunction at the High Court in Manchester banning any publication of the list.

Serving police officers are banned from becoming members of the BNP because it would damage race relations, Association of Chief Police Officers workforce development spokesman Peter Fahy said.

The National Union of Journalists accused the BNP of "staggering hypocrisy" over claims that the publication of lists of its members breached their privacy.

General secretary Jeremy Dear said: "For years we have been demanding Government action to close down websites such as Redwatch which seek to intimidate and silence media by publishing the photos, names and addresses of journalists who expose the criminal activities or racist views of BNP members and other far-right and neo-nazi thugs.

"Despite innocent people being physically assaulted and threatened after having their details published on these sites, we have never heard a single condemnation of this gross breach of privacy or unlawful harassment and intimidation from Nick Griffin or the BNP.

"Yet today, they seek to invoke the very Human Rights Act they want to abolish to protect the identity of their members. They have exposed their hypocrisy once again."