Items stolen from Man Utd air disaster memorial in Munich

The Manchester Munich Memorial Foundation (MMMF) has said it was "deeply saddened" after items remembering victims of the 1958 air crash were stolen from a memorial in Germany.

German newspaper Hallo München said pieces were taken from a glass display case at Manchesterplatz in Munich on Monday.

Munich Police told local reporters the case had been smashed with a stone. They believed it to have happened between 08:00 and 13:00 local time.

The memorial marks the site of the plane crash which killed 23 people, including eight Manchester United players, as the club returned from a European Cup tie in Belgrade in what was then Yugoslavia.