Rowling 'vindicated' over 'sob story'

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, the High Court in England has heard.

A judge was told that the publisher of the Daily Mail has accepted the allegations were “completely false and indefensible”, published an apology and undertaken not to repeat them.