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You thought with us, the battle of the towns now is over? – No, not yet, not really, not finally, it seems, now the Ministry of Justice rowed back and though tending to Leicester Cathedral, will officially decide when the laboratory results are definitive and can confirm the archaeological find as being King Richard III. The results are expected for about January or February 2013.
 
What else could we expect – it after all is one of the battles in the “Wars of the Roses” and those started and ebbed down and started again and were bitterly fought on all sides. And when you thought, all sides were at their wits end and finally in peace, new opponents turned up.
 

• Call to give Richard III York burial – The York Press, by Dan Bean (30.10.12)
  Mike Bennett, custodian of the Richard III Museum in York, (not surprisingly) fights for York as burial place.

 

• Should Richard III’s remains be interred in Gloucester Cathedral? – This is Gloucestershire (01.11.2012)
  Retired couple, Ted and Anne Hancock, fight for King Richard III to be interred in Gloucester Cathedral, as he was the most famous Duke of Gloucester.

 

• Government back-track on burial of Richard III in Leicester – The Hinckley Times, by Katy Hallam (01.11.2012)

 

• Bosworth welcomes ‘royal visitor’ – This is Leicestershire, by Tom Mack, Leicester Mercury (02.11.2012)
  Report about Michael Ibsen and historian Dr. John Ashdown-Hill visiting the Bosworth Field visitor centre.
  And don’t mix up the pictures of a skeleton from Bosworth Field with King Richard III. I got messages stating that, but it is not him!