Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England promises to help the football team in return for being released from his car-park grave. Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England The exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England began with the discovery of the king's remains within the site of the former Greyfriars Friary Church in Leicester, England, in September 2012. Following extensive anthropological and genetic testing, the remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle, were ultimately reinterred at Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015. Richard III, the final ruler of the Plantagenet dynasty, was killed on 22 August 1485 in the
Speedway in Leicester indoor track at Granby Halls. The first event was the Midland Individual Championship in January 1972, which was won by James Bond. Wilf Plant set up a training track near Melton Mowbray in 1936. Speedway was also staged at the greyhound stadium on Saxby Road in Melton Mowbray in 1949. The Melton Mowbray Motorcycle Club, chaired by Plant, staged several meetings on a cinder track there. Paddy Mills set up a training track in a field in Syston in 1952, running training sessions attended by several riders who went on to represent Leicester Hunters, including Ivor Brown and Bryan Elliott.