A memorial to the late Labour leader Michael Foot in his home city has been vandalised with extremist graffiti.
The stone tribute to Foot, who led the party from 1980 to 1983, was daubed with swastikas, obscenities and references to the British National party and English Defence League in Freedom Field Park in Plymouth, Devon.
The memorial opposite the house where the former parliamentarian was born in 1913 was erected in July last year after the money was raised through public donations.
Luke Pollard, who was a Labour candidate in Plymouth in the 2015 general election, posted on Facebook yesterday:
… Read the restToday, I got a message that the Michael Foot Memorial in Freedom Fields