But it must be galling to know that after he spent nearly five vain years entangled with the French bureaucracy, Paris granted permission to Arnault to build a cultural complex to house the collection owned by his luxury goods giant, LVMH Group.

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The RSPCA is Britain's most prolific private prosecutor, bringing thousands of charges a year on animal-related issues, but Mr Hart argues that its political campaigning, on hunting, for example, has become entangled with its legal activities, and that the two should be separated.

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