London:  Actor Hugh Grant, his ex girlfriend Liz Hurley and her new husband Arun Nayar won 58,000 pounds (Dh414,097) in damages on Thursday after paparazzi pictures taken while they were on holiday in the Maldives were published in tabloid newspapers.

The pictures, shot by photographers from agencies Big Pictures (UK) Ltd and the French-based Eliot Press, were published in the News of the World newspaper and its rival the Mail on Sunday last October. They were distressing and an invasion of their privacy, London's High Court was told.