"New laws I introduced in 2009 make sure you cannot use front organisations to disguise the original source of the donation, " he told Radio 4's Today programme.

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He said he wanted to see councils make more use of their powers to protect "small but important original details such as windows, doors and front gardens".

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As we said, the main differences you'll see between these US-centric models and the original version are the processor and amount of RAM used: the American variants all make use of a dual-core, 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chip and 2GB of memory, while the I9300 runs on quad-core Exynos silicon and one gig of RAM.

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