LONDON: A British politician has agreed to pay damages for an inaccurate comment he made about a rival on his Twitter account. It appeared to be the first defamation case in Britain involving a comment made on Twitter. To settle the case, Colin Elsbury has agreed to pay 3,000 pounds ($4,825) in damages and to publish an apology on Twitter to his rival Eddie Talbot, according to a law firm that represented Talbot. Elsbury also will pay Talbot's legal fees. Elsbury claimed in a June 2009 tweet that Talbot had been removed from a polling station by police during a local election in Wales.