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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: James Dyson wins battle to show public his art

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He's amassed a £16 billion fortune, owns more land than the Queen and has properties in London, Singapore and France. But today the ever inventive Sir James Dyson, Britain's richest man, has a particular reason to celebrate.

Despite fierce local opposition, he has, I can disclose, just received the go-ahead to create a new art gallery at Dodington Park, the 51-bedroom stately home in Gloucestershire he snapped up for £20 million in 2003.

Sir James and his wife Deirdre, whom he met while they were students at Byam Shaw Art School in London in the 1960s, have, as it were, hoovered up works by David Hockney and Picasso as well as Sir Peter Blake and American icons Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

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