RSPCA in turmoil as chief executive Jeremy Cooper quits after 15 months

The chief executive of the RSPCA has resigned after little more than a year in the post, leaving the world's oldest animal welfare charity in turmoil.Jeremy Cooper was appointed to the £150,000 a year role last April, promising to restore the charity's damaged reputation, but has left before implementing a five-year recovery plan aimed at creating a "modern, transparent and efficient organisation".Mr Cooper had promised that, under him, the organisation would "make friends and influence pe