Richard’s fate
to be debated
in Commons

Mr Bayley, MP for York Central, yesterday challenged Church Estates Commissioner Sir Tony Baldry to meet officials from both York and Leicester to discuss the burial of the King, whose remains were exhumed under licence from beneath a Leicester car park last year.

Preparations are underway for a burial at Leicester Cathedral but a campaign is being mounted for the remains to be reinterred at York Minster.

Mr Bayley said: “When the licence was issued by the Ministry of Justice... the archaeologists did not know they would find the last Plantagenet King of England. The licence refers to ‘persons unknown’. Now we know the bones are those of King Richard III the Government should reconsider where his body is to reburied.”