Two English teenagers caught stealing from the Auschwitz death camp escaped a custodial sentence after a Polish court fined them for the crime.

Marcus Bell and Ben Thompson were on school trip in June 2015 when they were caught in possession of parts of a hair clipper, buttons and fragments of glass by museum guards at the site of Nazi Germany's most infamous camp.

A district court in the southern Polish city of Krakow fined the two, who are now aged 19, about £400 and ordered them to pay £1,200 to a memorial fund for Auschwitz survivors.