The Telegraph has apologised and agreed to pay costs and damages to a husband and wife over an article that wrongly claimed they were responsible for an Islamist “Trojan Horse” plot at a primary school.

Nasim Ashraf and Hafizan Zaman were said to have plotted a “campaign of intimidation” to take over Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham with the “aim of imposing an aggressive and separatist agenda” on students.

The claims against the married couple were published in an article on the Telegraph website on 20 February, 2017 (pictured top).