Stephen Gately’s partner Andrew Cowles has formally lodged a complaint with the press standards watchdog regarding the Daily Mail’s controversial article by Jan Moir.

BRITAIN’S Press Complaints Commission received a record 21,000 complaints in relation to an article that appeared in the British edition of the Daily Mail criticising the “dangerous lifestyle” of the late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.

Around 21,000 complaints have been made in Britain over a newspaper article about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.

Police have received a complaint about an article written by newspaper columnist Jan Moir about the death of singer Stephen Gately, Scotland Yard said today.

A CONTROVERSIAL article in yesterday’s British Daily Mail by columnist Jan Moir, entitled ‘‘Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death’’, has provoked outrage by his fans across social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.