The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in London after a hugely complicated journey to leave France for the first time in more than 900 years for an exhibition in Britain.
In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation.
A group of observers in London in the early hours of today saw a metal case holding the 11th century work being unloaded from a truck which carried it across the Channel in a hushed-up process where any slip-up could have spelled disaster.
The tapestry was folded
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