Becks autograph row costs Posh over €70,000

VICTORIA BECKHAM yesterday agreed to pay stg£55,000 (€72,500) damages in settlement of a slander action over a disputed autograph of her husband.

The singer and wife of the England football captain was not at London’s High Court to hear the resolution of the proceedings brought by Tim and Glynis McManus, and their son Anthony, of GT’s Recollections at the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent.

Their solicitor, Michael Skrein, told Mr Justice Gray that Mrs Beckham also apologised for the “hurt and damage” which the family and their business had suffered.