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The BBC News website reports that a couple from Norfolk have admitted running fake distance-learning courses which netted them sums of more than £200,000.

Katie Hope and Scott Wolfe duped 900 people into paying for qualifications which did not exist, via their firms International Distance College and the British Nutrition Council.

The Sun reports that a prolific thief claims to have made £2million during her 45 year shoplifting ‘career’.

Mother-of-six Kim Farry, from SW London, has been in prison five times and shows no remorse for her illegal actions, preferring to see herself as a ‘Fagin’ character.

The Daily Record reports that a mum-of-two with an expensive cocaine habit embezzled hundreds of thousands of pounds from a SECOND trusting employer.

Kerryanne Clarke pocketed nearly £255,000 over three years from Govan-based Bell Building Projects Ltd., by taking cash and fraudulently using a company credit card.

The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard website reports that thefts from shops have decreased in Cirencester according to recent police figures, bucking the national trend.

Police say that the reduction in crime is down to police successfully obtaining Criminal Behaviour Orders [CBO] for repeat offenders, banning them from all shops in the city.

According to the Chester Standard, a finance manager has been jailed for stealing more than £320,000 from her employer.

Sian Mclear-Dyer transferred the cash into her own bank accounts over a period of two and a half years while working for Total Conveyancing Services in Ellesmere Port.

Stoke-On-Trent Live reports that a ‘desperate’ shoplifter stole bottles of alcohol from Sainsbury’s because he could not pay his rent after his housing benefit was stopped.

Ian Lincoln – who has 70 previous convictions for theft and similar offences – was desperate not to lose his accommodation so he took the items to sell on.