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Police and forensic archaeologists have sealed off a building site in North Ayrshire after the discovery of a mass grave.
The site once housed Ravenspark Hospital, which was formerly an asylum and poorhouse in the 19th century.
Historian and author Peter Higginbotham notes in The Workhouse website that a report by the General Superintendent of Poorhouses in 1892 alleged that "paupers dying in this house, whose bodies are not claimed by friends, are buried in an enclosed part of the garden".
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St Dwynwen's church on Anglesey is to be conserved and partly restored as one of Wales's most spiritual sites to safeguard it for future generations. Via Heather Montgomery Delete the scoop?
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Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and his body is believed to have been buried in the English city of Leicester, but did it remain there and is it still there? Delete the scoop?
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