Clues coaxed from the skeleton may shed "a new light" on the physical description of Richard III as a humpbacked man with a "withered arm, " which was used to support history's evil image of him, Professor Lin Foxhall, head of the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, said.

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But the exhumation licence granted at the start of the University of Leicester's excavation stated that, depending on the identity of any remains found, they should be reinterred either in the nearest consecrated ground or at a suitable site of the university's choice.

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Nigel Bond, head of facilities at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said land near the Leicester Tigers' stadium had planning permission for a multi-storey car park.

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