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The BBC reports that a government body is investigating a website in China selling fake degree certificates from many UK universities.

Posing as a customer, reporters from BBC Radio Kent found a website offering certificates from dozens of UK institutions, including the universities of Kent and Surrey.

According to Kent Online, ‘Dr.’ Sarah Sims was exposed after applying for job at Ferndearle Child Care Services in Folkestone with list of fake qualifications.

In her job application she said her ‘line manager’ in the army was a Sgt Major Darren Pugh, but he turned out to be her 48-year-old husband.

The Mirror reports that two former NHS workers who stole dental equipment worth £75,000 which they sold on eBay have been jailed.

Darren Lawson who worked as a storeman for NHS Lothian stole the goods before passing them to hospital site supervisor Gianni Donofrio who traded them on the auction website.

A bent bank worker who stole a fortune from Natwest customers after taking their account details over the phone has been jailed.

Telephone advisor Matthew Parkhouse asked a string of account holders for the security digits on the backs of their cards when he didn’t need them for legitimate banking purposes.

The Plymouth Herald reports that a man lied about being a British Army Captain for 11 years – when he had served just 40 days as a private.

Prosecutors said that Christopher Griffin had claimed on his website that he served as a former Captain for 11 years, “and a further nine years in British Army Reserves”.

The Cambridge News reports that a debt-ridden postman stole packages on his rounds in Saffron Walden and then sold some of the items on ebay.

Christopher John Caldwell, 44, pocketed up to £3,000 in a period of two-and-a-half years by targeting parcels and selling on ebay the goods he found in them.