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The Ilkeston Advertiser reports that an accounts manager stole almost £10,000 from his employer including using the owner’s company credit card to buy a 55-inch TV.

A court heard how Paul Barsby used a company fuel card to fill the tank of his own car, and paid himself more than £2,000 in cash.

The North Wales Live website reports that a pair of shoplifters took items worth more than £14,000 from shops across North Wales, in a deliberate and targeted thieving spree.

Alexander Andrew James Foster stole items worth £11,652 and his accomplice, Andrew Leigh Martin, took goods valued at £2,452.

According to the Coin Telegraph website, Japanese tech giants Sony and Fujitsu have created an encrypted database for educational proficiency documents, in a bid to prevent forgeries and fake diplomas which are being used by foreigners to secure resident status in the country.

According to Stoke On Trent Live, a ‘wound up’ gas engineer who was suspended from his job, stole tools from his firm’s van in retaliation.

Reece Pace also ordered goods worth over £500 from various trade suppliers on behalf of his ex-employer, Shore Mechanical Services [SMS].

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.