Long-running feud between family members however cost businessman and his daughter £7.5m in legal fees

Sir Frederick Barclay received £800,000 from his nephews for settling a legal battle over alleged “commercial espionage on a vast scale” that included bugging of thousands of his private conversations at the five-star Ritz hotel, a court was told.

It also emerged in the high court on Tuesday that the feud played out between two sides of the Barclay family, which owns the Telegraph media group as well as Yodel and Shop Direct, cost the businessman and his daughter Amanda £7.5m in legal fees.

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