Bayeux Tapestry arrives in Britain under overnight police escort

The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in the UK.
It arrived in the UK yesterday, and, escorted by the Kent and Metropolitan police, it was taken from Folkestone to the British Museum in an overnight operation.
That journey marked the first time the tapestry had been in the UK since it was made, probably by Canterbury embroiderers, and it was soon afterwards sent to Bayeux Cathedral in France. It has remained in France ever since.The British Museum says that it spent the past year working with colleagu