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The South Wales Argus reports that an employee stole more than £1.3 million from a family business to fund a “ridiculous” gambling addiction and pay for lavish holidays.

Alison Smith was employed as a financial manager at Eiran Civil Engineering Ltd and defrauded the company for nearly a decade.

The Belfast Live website reports that high performance police Interceptor cars are being used to tackle organised shoplifting gangs operating across Ireland and Britain.

Police and retail chiefs say a number of gangs, who had stolen goods worth thousands of pounds, have been caught thanks to use of the vehicles and the sharing of intelligence between officers and businesses.

The Daily Record website reports that an “overzealous” security guard at a Lidl store broke a thief’s leg after tackling him for shoplifting.

Leandro Da Silva spotted the thief – David O’Connor – trying to steal from the shop in Edinburgh and knelt on his body to restrain him, before piling a second thief on top of him.

According to the Hull Live website, an employee stole £100,000 from her employer over a five-year period, to fund a lavish ‘Instagram’ lifestyle.

Laura Howarth officially earned just over £900 a month as a finance assistant but stole every week, taking her fraudulent ‘salary’ up to an eye-watering £6,000 a month.

The Chronicle Live website reports that an employee was caught selling at least £16,000-worth of stolen works tools on eBay.

Leslie Pattinson stole expensive equipment over a two-week period and uploaded details to the online auction site, before a colleague spotted them for sale.

An opinion piece on the Daily Record website reports that recorded instances of shoplifting in Scotland have risen 18 per cent in the 12 months ending in June 2022.

Just under 25,000 incidents were recorded by police – an average of 68 per day – but the real number is likely to be far higher, with many store managers simply letting thieves go with a telling-off.