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As reported on the BBC News website, convenience store owners represented by the Federation of Independent Retailers are calling on the government for help in combatting the rise in shoplifting offences.

One trader, Mr Selvaratnam, says his staff are facing both verbal and physical abuse.

As reported on the Worcester News website, the manager of a city-centre pub stole over £4,000 – but was spared immediate jail time for the sake of her young son.

A court heard how Laura Beatson took £4,033.65 of her employer’s takings and another £389.40 in ’till monies’.

The Mail Online reports that ten of Britain’s top retailers have agreed to fund a police crackdown on shoplifting gangs.

John Lewis, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Next are among those reportedly investing £600,000 into the operation, dubbed Project Pegasus.

As reported on the Reuters website, the Primark fashion chain joined industry calls for authorities to crack down shoplifting as its profit margins were suffering.

Also, Sharon White, chair of John Lewis Partnership said Britain is seeing an “epidemic” of shoplifting, in an interview with the BBC.

As reported on the Wales Online website, an office administrator who stole £150,000 from one of Wales’ best-known restaurants has been ordered to pay back just £1.

Nicola Nightingale managed the venue’s accounts and left it massively in debt just as the COVID pandemic hit, enlisting her husband, Simon, in the scam.

The BBC News website reports that two brothers sold more than 6,000 jars of counterfeit cranberry sauce, packaged to look like organic brand Abel & Cole.

An investigation in 2020 discovered Mohammed and Irfan Patel had sold the fake product to several businesses, one of which bought more than 1,000 cases.