JAMES BOND producer Cubby Broccoli yesterday accepted undisclosed

libel damages and costs from the Sunday Times Magazine over an article

which said 007 star Sean Connery was accusing him of cheating him out of

profits in the films.

Times Newspapers, publishers of the magazine, and journalist Russell

Miller apologised in the High Court for the November 1989 article

headlined No One Says No to Sean.

They accepted that the accusations and other disparaging comments made

by Mr Connery in the article were ''untrue and unfounded''.

Mr Lawrence Abramson, Mr Broccoli's solicitor, told Mr Justice Drake

the article contained an attack on production arrangements for the film

Never Say Never Again, prompting a comment by Mr Connery that he would

never again appear in a Bond film.

It referred to Mr Broccoli as producer of the Bond films -- he

produced or co-produced all the Bond films from Dr No in 1962 to Licence

to Kill in 1989 -- but it did not explain that he had played no part in

the production of Never Say Never Again.

Mr Broccoli, who accepted substantial damages from the Sun a year ago

over a similar article by the same journalist, has decided to donate

yesterday's damages to the National Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Children.