The actor Ewan McGregor yesterday won damages from defendants including the Sun and the Daily Record over pictures published of him and his family on holiday.

Details of the agreed settle ment are confidential, but it is thought McGregor, the star of Trainspotting, and his two young daughters have been paid a total of around £5,000 in compensation and £35,000 in costs.

Nigel Tate, a partner at Carter Ruck, the law firm that represented McGregor, said the case highlighted the remedies available to public figures targeted by paparazzi.

McGregor won the original high court action in November, that pictures of him and his family on a beach in Mauritius were a breach of confi dence and data protection law.

The award comes after Princess Caroline of Monaco won a European ruling that her privacy had been violated by published photographs of her and her children.

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