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Now, street art or just plain vandalism? A row of cartoon lego men are splitting opinion in Loughborough. The businessman who commissioned them says the spray-painted characters on Leopold Street are a bit of harmless fun, but they've got him into trouble with the local council. Rafaelle Russo has been ordered to take the 5 characters down, or formally apply for consent because they could be considered an advert. But Mr Russo, who runs a restaurant and a student lettings agency in Loughborough, has persistently refused to do so. He now faces prosecution and even his other pieces of work- the large image of Edward Scissorhands and the scene from the London underground - being removed. But whilst the Council clamps down, most people in Loughborough don't see much wrong with it - as Manish Verma has been finding out.