One Direction win legal battle to keep their name

Chart stars One Direction are to keep their name after reaching a deal with a US act with whom they had been locked in a legal dispute.

The What Makes You Beautiful singers — who appeared at the Olympics closing ceremony last month — had faced action from the Californian rock band who had already been using the same name.

The US group was claiming more than £600,000 (€758,000) in damages, a share of profits and hoped to get the British quintet to stop using the name.