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BBC News reports that a convicted fraudster has admitted lying to get a job at an energy firm he then defrauded of more than £40,000.

James Cox made up references and a CV to land the £65,000 finance director role at Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC).

The Surrey Comet reports that a former solicitor pretended to be an HMRC officer in order to gain information about the disciplinary investigation that struck him off.

Paul Baxendale-Walker of Hersham was struck off as a solicitor at a tribunal hearing in 2007 and then used a false name to write to the Law Society on what appeared to be HMRC-headed paper.

According to Chad, a man went on a shoplifting spree in Mansfield after his girlfriend dumped him.

Mihai Talian stole clothes from Sport Direct and River Island worth £142 after a telephone call with his girlfriend in Romania ended with her informing him that she had formed a new relationship.

A sea cadets volunteer in Northumberland stole a number of kayaks, sails, wetsuits and musical instruments from the organisation and sold them on eBay.

Paul Erskine had got into financial difficulties, and went to steal items worth over £3,000 from the cadets and a neighbouring sports club, which he listed on the online auction site to raise money.

The Mirror reported that three Romanian shoplifters caught with a boot load of baby formula milk powder have been spared jail time.

An off-duty police officer spotted the trio sneakingmilk out of a Co-Op in Woodbridge, took photographs of their car and then alerted his colleagues.

As reported on Mail Online, there is growing trend where brazen shoplifters post their ill-gotten hauls on social media platform, Tumblr.

Growing communities of mainly young women are posting photos – and accompanying hashtags, such as #shoplifting – to advocate the so-called ‘lift life’.