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The Mirror reports that a gift shop manager stole more than £30,000 from penny press machines to fund his gambling addiction.

Jason Metcalfe spent six years siphoning off takings from the presses at a tourist attraction in Hull and also plundered another £58,000 from tills, faking refunds and pocketing the proceeds.

The Mirror reports that a delivery driver who stole nearly 700 parcels worth £36,000 and sold them to “unsuspecting customers” on eBay was regarded as a model employee by colleagues.

Lyndon Linton was employed as a driver for Hermes in 2007 and was considered by his colleagues as a “model courier” but would steal parcels allocated to other drivers, containing goods including vacuum cleaners, food processors, bath mats, cooking utensils, and a jar of plastic flowers.

As reported in the East Anglian Daily Times, a woman who siphoned off more than £47,000 from a security firm she worked at over a period of three years has been jailed.

Allison Thorogood, a payroll manager, had directly transferred around £17,000 to her own bank account and spent c.£30k on the company credit card on personal expenses, as well as withdrawing cash using the card.

Kim Farry, branded Britain’s most shameless shoplifter, has reportedly threatened to go back to her criminal ways just months after she offered to help stores stop theft, according to The Mirror.

The grandmother, 55, has admitted she isn’t content with her £15,000 yearly benefit money and warned if she doesn’t get a job soon she’ll go back to shoplifting.

The Telegraph reports that a shoplifter has been prosecuted for stealing £60 of washing-up goods – after she was caught fleeing a Savers store on Google Street View.

Whilst her face had been blurred out by Google, Cleveland Police identified Tammy McIvor from her distinctive white outfit, which she was wearing when she was arrested.

As reported on the Recruiter website, almost 100,000 job applicants have lied about qualifications in the past three years and are getting away with it.

According to a new study from AXELOS – a joint venture between UK government and the business outsourcer Capita – many are getting away with falsifying their qualifications because almost half (48%) of UK-based HR professionals do not always check that applicants’ qualifications are valid.