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A Banksy mural entitled Kissing Coppers has fetched $575,000 (£345,000) at a US auction after being removed from the wall of a Brighton pub.

The life-sized black-and-white graffiti work of two policemen kissing was sold to an anonymous buyer in Miami.

One of the artist’s most famous pieces, it was spray-painted
on the side of the Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street in Brighton in
2004.