Award-winning Disney songwriter Richard Sherman dies aged 95

Composer Richard M Sherman has died (Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)

Richard M Sherman, one half of the award-winning pair of brothers who wrote songs for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has died aged 95.

Sherman, together with his late brother Robert, won two Academy Awards for Walt Disney’s 1964 hit Mary Poppins — best score and best song for Chim Chim Cher-ee.