♛ King Richard III ♛

• Catmose College: Most exciting excavation yet. Catmose reporters went to Leicester (20.03.2013) – Reporter Toby interviews Richard Buckley and Matthew Morris about the excavations of King Richard III’s grave:
   
  

 

• Video by Colin Hyde, East Midland’s Oral History Archive (YouTube: EMOralHistory, 26.03.2013)
  with a tour through King Richard III’s Leicester:
   
  
   
  More details at the University of Leicester website.

 

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: Ideas flood in to relocate statue of Leicester’s car park king, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (26.03.2013) – Not only the burial location for King Richard III is unclear, but also the statue currently placed in Castle Gardens, a gift from the Richard III Society, shall get a new home.

♛ Battle of the Cities ♛

 
The Battle of the Cities is far from over, now with a new player in the battle, the “Plantagenet Alliance“:

• BBC News: Richard III’s relatives seek judicial review over burial (26.03.2013) – Not only polls, but solicitors take over the discussion about where to bury King Richard III.

 

• The Guardian: Where should Richard III be buried? (26.03.2013) – The Guardian has launched a new poll about the City-discussion. Options are York and Leicester (By far not as many choices as in our poll here).

 

• ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: Plantagenet Alliance’s legal challenge over king’s bones is ‘tosh’, by Peter Warzynski (26.03.2013)

 

• The Lawyer: Gordons prepares to launch JR proceedings for York burial of Richard III, by Joanne Harris (26.03.2013) – The legal standpoint and the beginning of legal procedings by Gordons from Leeds.

 

• Daily Mail: Relatives of Richard III threaten legal action claiming his planned reburial in Leicester Cathedral is a breach of HUMAN RIGHTS, by Mario Ledwith (26.03.2013) – Has nice view of York from Town Wall.

 

• Reuters: Battle rages over bones of England’s Richard III, by Michael Holden (26.03.2013)