SIR – Even by Tyke standards of cheek, Yorkshire demands for Richard III’s bones (pictured) to be now given a Yorkshire burial are breathtaking.
Yorkshire forsook Richard III upon death out of convenience, the whole county reeking from inns repainting hastily their white boar signs blue, and it was left to the Greyfriars monks of Leicester to give him some sort of decent burial.
Subsequently, it took an Edinburgh woman and local archeologists a week to accomplish what the entire of Yorkshire had no interest in doing the past 528 years – find him!
As they say, thee gets nowt for nowt!
Mark Boyle, Linn Park Gardens, Johnstone, Renfrewshire
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