PAUL FLYNN is being sued for more than £300,000 for allegedly publishing damaging words on his website and in a magazine.

But Mr Flynn, Labour's parliamentary candidate for Newport West, denies any wrongdoing and dismissed the writ as "a joke".

On April 4, solicitors acting for Endowment Justice and three other claimants, filed a claim form in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court against Paul Flynn, claiming damages exceeding £300,000 for libel contained on his website titled "Justice for some" and an article in Money Marketing Magazine entitled "Endowment chasers are 'wolves profiteering from misery'".

The articles are alleged to have related to the business of purchasing endowment policies for profit and been published on February 6 and 10. Endowment Justice is based at Bilston in the West Midlands.

The claim form shows the other three claimants to be Nicholas Keca and Marianne Fitzjohn, both of Gossington in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, and Graeme Alan Webber of Willgutter Lane in Keighley, Yorkshire.

Neither of the articles named in the claim appeared last night on Mr Flynn's website, which he uses to update readers and supporters of all his news on a regular basis, and the politician denied that he has ever written such an article for the magazine.

Mr Flynn said: "There's not a lot I can say about this issue because of the legal situation but it is being dealt with by solicitors.

"I've never seen Money Marketing Magazine which I believe to be part of the Financial Times.

"I've certainly never written anything for it but I have criticised certain activities under protected privilege in the House of Commons.

"This writ is frivolous, it's a joke and I'm not going to respond to it."