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Google has restricted access to a BBC blog posting and several British newspaper stories under a legal ruling granting people a right to be forgotten in search engines, it emerged on Thursday. BBC economics editor Robert Peston complained that Google had killed this example of my journalism after being informed that a 2007 posting about former Merrill Lynch chairman Stan ONeal had been removed from certain searches in Europe. The Guardian newspaper also said it had been notified that six links to its stories had been removed from search results, three of them about a 2010 controversy involving a now-retired Scottish Premier League referee. The newspaper said it was given no reason and had no appeal against the decision, the result of a ruling by the European Court of Justice in May that the paper said was a huge, if indirect, challenge to press freedom.