York City FC seeks relatives to find ashes buried under old pitch

Historic England project aims to find ashes of fans buried at football ground slated for redevelopment

The buddleia is pushing through the concrete of the Grosvenor Road stand at Bootham Crescent. Nature has reclaimed York City FC's once pristine pitch, and knee-high grass sways in the breeze in the centre of the dilapidated ground.

It doesn't look like the site of a groundbreaking historical project, but the small holes in a carefully excavated site behind where the goal once was tell a different story.