Rowling vindicated over 'sob story' claim

HARRY Potter series author JK Rowling will donate to charity the substantial damages she will receive from a newspaper that could not back its allegations.

AUTHOR JK Rowling has been "fully vindicated and her reputation restored" following a newspaper's apology for alleging she wrote a sob story containing false claims about her time as a single mother, London's High Court has heard.

A JUDGE was told the publisher of Britain's Daily Mail has accepted the allegations were "completely false and indefensible", published an apology and undertaken not to repeat them.