Greece returns priceless relics – and suggests UK should follow suit with Parthenon marbles

Greek PM hopes handover of Tsar Samuel to Bulgaria will persuade Britain that time has come for truth, reason, justice and morality'

In a ceremony replete with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for great events, Greece and Bulgaria have formally exchanged a treasury" of relics and bones, sealing a cultural deal negotiated over decades.

The handover involved priceless religious objects removed from Greece at the height of the first world war, as well as remains thought to belong to Tsar Samuel, Bulgaria's revered medieval warrior ruler.