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As reported on Kent Online, a valued member of an Ashford family firm betrayed their trust and secretly pocketed £100,000.

Donna Hartshorne – jailed for 18 months – was off work with neck and back problems when her bosses discovered she had set up three private accounts.

The Sun reports that a besotted account manager stole more than half a million pounds from her employer to give to an American serviceman that she had met online.

Pam Wareing, stole cash from a client’s account at her employer of 20 years – Eashams solicitors in Blackpool – tranferring it to a bank in Dubai over a 46-day period.

According to the Droitwich Advertiser, a former pub manager betrayed the trust of his employer by pocketing the wages of ‘ghost employees’, after an investigation into common assault led to the discovery.

Christopher May admitted the £33,000 fraud while managing the Honey Bee pub in Doverdale, claiming wages on behalf staff who had at some time worked at the pub but no longer did.

According to The Telegraph, police in a Berkshire town have said they will not send out officers to deal with shoplifters who steal goods worth less than £100.

Thames Valley Police officers told residents of Hungerford that austerity cuts meant the response to crimes would now need to be prioritised.

A story in The Mirror gives details of how a Co-op store in Plymouth is hiding expensive steak from customers in a bid to thwart shoplifters.

A sign on the empty shelf blamed ‘deviants’ who keep stealing the choice meat from the busy Co-op branch, taking so much there was little left for genuine customers.

The Plymouth Herald reports that a ‘Walter Mitty’ who faked qualifications to scoop two top NHS jobs and earned over £1 million – despite being a builder – has been jailed for two years.

Jon Andrewes called himself ‘doctor’ and faked PhDs on his CV in his successful to become chairman of two NHS trusts and a hospice, earning himself a six figure salary.