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Cracking good stuff

As Wallace and Gromit ride again in a new film and exhibition, Graeme Virtue pays tribute to the Plasticine national treasures

IN May 2004, a fire on an east London industrial estate destroyed dozens of stored artworks, including more than 100 owned by self-appointed modern art tsar Charles Saatchi.