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A former Manchester United footballer will be reunited with a medal he received when playing for the club over 40 years ago.
The medal was found in a cupboard at Buildwas Primary School, near Telford, in Shropshire.
62-year-old Steve James played for United from 1966-76 and was part of the team that won the old Division Two title in the 1974-75 season.
He will be reunited with the medal, thought to have been stolen in the 80s, in a ceremony at the school.
School governor Nigel Bowen explained how he managed to return to the medal to James.
He said: "In the end, after some good old-fashioned research - the phone book - I tracked down Steve's father's house in Coseley and was then able to find Steve himself.
"Steve had not seen the medal for over 30 years.
"The mystery is we cannot work out how it ended up at the school."
Mr Bowen said he had been told by Mr James that the medal was probably stolen from his father's house in the 1980s.
