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While the number of posts is lower than it once was, the number of users daily is still strong. About 1000 users per day come here. There are about 150 users here at any one time of the day. There will never be a charge to access the historical information here. That has always been Bob's pledge, and will never change. Free and unfettered access to this historical information and the accuracy and confidence of that accuracy of that information will always be our guiding goal. :eek:QuoteHowever not it turns out that is not the case, other considerations can come into play, the wishes of relatives, the deceased's intentions, etc. Basically it seems the UoL was less than truthful and trying to pull a fast one.
I think that is a little unfair - in the parliamentary debate the government basically said it was unusual to alter the terms of a licence although it accepted that the various interested parties had a point that the licence could be varied. But since they seem currently to be sticking to the UoL as the deciding body, it makes no odds. However, I would agree that the UoL does not seem to be being very diplomatic about the tomb, and would add that Leicester Cathedral is ditto, while I rather think that the Richard III society should have lined up its ducks with the university and the cathedral before seeking funds and designing a tomb in the first place. It all looks like a train collision in slow motion at present, and although the various parties are reasonably civil, it looks like it could get nasty quite fast.
Now, this is interesting.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130307/debtext/130307-0001.htm#13030784000048.
look under "Church Commissioners"
Following on from this, there will be an Adjournment Debate today in parliament regarding the terms of the Exhumation Licence granted to the University of Leicester arising from the concerns raised by Hugh Bayley ( MP for York central ).
Here is the debate: -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-commons-21757331
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Meanwhile, Leicester Cathedral has thrown the cat well and truly among the pigeons by announcing that it has no room for the tomb which the Society had designed,
http://m.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/story.html?aid=18391233
and which the Society's members had evidently contributed to on the expectation that it would be used. Some of them had been extremely defensive of Leicester's claim to keep the King's bones.
This is becoming a tremendous mess.
Alright, then. I have finished the book, and by the way, I would like a medal.
This may be the worst book I have ever read, and I am including the Danielle Steele novel I downed once while on vacation because there was literally nothing else available (and I mean nothing else; before I turned to it, I had read the back of every cereal box in the cabinet and the instructions on a bottle of Listerine, all of which were better than Princess Daisy. But I digress.)
olds writing fanfiction, but this doesn't even rise to that level, and the damn thing costs over ten bucks. Run. And don't look back...
I forget. Did I mention the medal?
When I was younger, the murders affected me on a more emotional level. Now, the forensics is more fascinating. Reading the testimony of the killers, the DNA evidence, etc, is intriguing. It's one of history's great murder mysteries. Perhaps watching too many CSI shows did that. <chuckle>
The fates of Ivan VI and the French Dauphin disgust me more deeply. The deliberate psychological torture of those boys were, to me, the greater atrocities. Ivan VI & the Dauphin were emotionally destroyed by inches long before death finally freed them. The IF were locked up and deprived, but they suffered comparatively less abuse. Their deaths came mercifully fast.
The Princes in the Tower and Britney Spears' career. No wait . . . belay that last one. Pick her up and put her in the Tower in place of the princes. Just before Uncle Richard's friends drop by.
