In March, Brighton City Airways (BCA) launched flights from Brighton (Shoreham) Airport to Paris Pontoise, near the French capital.

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The French Ministry of Culture wants to relocate this laboratory, as well as the Louvre's storerooms, to a site about 50km (30 miles) outside Paris in a new facility to be built in Cergy-Pontoise.

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"Just two weeks before we launched the airline in March, we were advised by the French authorities that there would be a short delay of a couple of weeks before a customs and immigration port of entry was in place at Paris Pontoise, " he said.

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