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Richard III judicial review: Plantagenet Alliance loses reburial battle

Distant relatives of Richard III have lost their High Court battle over where his remains should be reburied. The Plantagenet Alliance Limited, who are campaigning to see the former king reburied in York, challenged the justice secretary's decision not to consult further before granting a licence to the University of Leicester to excavate the remains. The licence also enables the university to decide where the remains are reinterred. But today the court announced that the Plantagenet Alliance's application had been unsuccessful: "There are no public law grounds for the Court interfering with the decisions in question. In the result, therefore, the Claimant’s application for Judicial Review is dismissed."

Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

A British First World War soldier married a nurse who had condemned him to death, it has been revealed. Captain Harry Oldham from the West Yorkshire Regiment was gravely wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917, and found himself on an operating table in a York military hospital, muttering in German. An Irish nurse, Heather Orloff, mistook him for German spy, and said he should not be allowed to live. Yet two years later the pair married, and went on to have three children.

WW2 US airbase art in East Anglia to be preserved

Hundreds of examples of Second World War wall art drawn by US bomber crews at airbases in the east of England are to be documented in a new project. Eighth in the East aims to preserve the cartoons, murals and graffiti painted by the crews between 1942 and 1945. The £575,000 Heritage Lottery-funded project also wants to look at the legacy the US Eighth Army Air Force left for the east, BBC News reports.

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Ancient Battle of Fulford resumes at High Court

An archaeologist has begun a High Court fight to protect what he believes is the site of "the first battle of 1066", which is threatened by a housing development, the Telegraph reports. Charles "Chas" Jones is challenging English Heritage’s refusal to recognise a site just outside York as the site of the Battle of Fulford. The largely forgotten clash was the first in a tumultuous series of battles which eventually saw Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson defeated by William of Normandy at the Battle of Hastings.

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