A man has been charged in connection with the theft of flowers left as a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham, police have said.

A man has been charged in connection with a reported theft from the Ozzy Osbourne shrine in Birmingham city centre before it was dismantled. Police were alerted to an alleged theft at Black Sabbath Bench in Broad Street where dozens of floral tributes and messages were left in memory of Ozzy in the days following his death on July 22.

Since Ozzy's death, the calls to preserve the pub in Birmingham where Black Sabbath played their first gig and make it a heritage site have grown louder. The pub was built in 1881 and shut in 2014, after it was bought by a Japanese development company.