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Daily News… RICHARD III’S CAR PARK : AN UNLIKELY PLACE FOR A KING Graffiti adorns the painted green wooden gates to the windswept car park in Leicester, the grey concrete overlooked by a local authority building badly in need of redecoration. It is not the most auspicious place to find a king of England. But researchers at the University of Leicester on Monday confirmed that a skeleton dug up from a municipal car park in the central English city was indeed Richard III, who died in battle in 1485. «It’s really weird to know that we’ve been parking on a king,» said youth worker Maxine Gregory, as she surveyed the flapping white plastic tent erected over the site outside her office. For over 500 years, England’s last Plantagenet king lay there without a shroud or coffin, hastily buried in a hole so short that his head had to be propped up on his neck to fit in. The skeleton has now been removed and all that remains is a rectangular hole surrounded by metal barriers, although the site is likely to become a tourist attraction as the city capitalises on its new favourite son. Leicester was already proud of its royal connection, despite Richard’s depiction in history as a villain. A number of local pubs are named after the king and one local even admits to chatting to Richard by the river where he was once rumoured to have been thrown. But the discovery of his remains is something new, and Gregory and her colleague Roz Best are excited to be part of history, even if the dig was a bit noisy. «I think we can give up a few parking spaces for a king,» joked Best. After his death at the Battle of Bosworth at the hands of the man who would become king Henry VII, Richard was buried in an unmarked grave in the church of the Franciscan Friary, known as Greyfriars. But the building was razed by Henry VIII when he broke with the Catholic church in the 1530s, and Richard’s grave disappeared -- until a few years ago, when a writer researching a screenplay on the lost king found her way to the unremarkable car park close to Leicester Cathedral.
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International News… US WINTER ALMOST OVER It’s official, at least according to America’s most celebrated groundhog: spring is around the corner. In an annual ritual with early roots in German folklore and rather more in US media-showbiz, a Pennsylvania groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil was interpreted Saturday as predicting an early end to winter. According to his handlers at the ceremony in the town of Punxsutawney, Phil was brought out of his burrow and did not see his shadow, meaning, obviously, that the seasonal shift is in the offing. Had he seen his shadow, winter would have gone on another six weeks.
OLYMPICS: BIG AMBITIONS FOR SOCHI With the hopes of the nation and its leaders resting on them, Russia’s winter sports athletes are hoping to put on a display of Soviet-style domination at their home Olympic Games in Sochi next year. Gone are the days when the Red Machine could be counted on to conquer all comers, competition is tighter than ever and Russia’s own sports system still rebuilding after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But when competition begins in one year, Russia will be hoping not just to avoid a repeat of the calamity of the Vancouver 2010 Games where it won a humiliatingly meagre tally of just three golds.
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