Star wins £4m for 'shoddy' house

Hollywod star Sandra Bullock has been awarded about £4 million in damages after she claimed a builder carried out shoddy work on her Texas home.

The star of Miss Congeniality has been locked in a legal battle with the builder of the lakefront home she has never moved into and which is unfinished after seven years.

A Texas jury awarded Bullock the damages after she claimed the builder was responsible for £2.4 million repairs to the house.

Lawyers for the builder, Benny Daneshjou, said he plans to appeal.

Witnesses testified the house had water damage, a faulty roof, wiring that was too small and masonry damage.

Mr Daneshjou's lawyers said a former project manager and most of the subcontractors were to blame.

Bullock won more than £1.2 million for repairs and £234,000 for maintaining the house since February 2000 as well as costs and other damages.

Pictures of the unfinished house and its turrets, fireplaces and a spiral staircase were flashed onto a huge screen in court f.